What booksshould I read or listen to
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
“The ultimate questions”
Creating continual improvement in customer satisfaction and loyalty
“Tools for success”
Useful models to frame issues and problems
“The little book of management theories”
Useful models and tools to frame issues
Percy Barnevick on leadership
Practical leadership advice expressed in easy to ready way
“Leading “
Reinvention to constantly win
“The everything store”
Creating unique business model and online learning
“The Amazon Way”
To understand if any principles are transferable to your business model
“Brick by Brick”
Learning by mistakes and being here and surviving
"Jonas & Robert of Oriflame"
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“ In for a pound”
Creating and maximizing a business model
“Easyland”
How Easy Jet created a unique business model and culture
“Bread. The story of Greggs"
The challenges of scalling a start up
“Sam Walton made in America”
Scalling with obsession and compassion
“The rise and fall of Marks & Spancer”
Learning from success
“Tough Calls”
How to make tough decisions to gain clarity
“The Southwest Airlines Way”
Unique culture and customer service
“The ultimate book of business skills”
Useful skills to help you
“Success”
Sensible & practical advice
“Business strategy”
Good basics and reminders on what to think about
“Marketing as strategy”
Visionary marketeer
“Start with why”
How to have a purpose
“Mud, Sweat and Tears”
Mental strength and persistence
"Winners: And How They Succeed"
How people succeed and how you can, too
"The way I see it" “
He is just a winner
“If you could tell me one thing”
Visionary marketeer
"Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?"
Teamwork
"Leadership Lessons"
Leadership insights
"Funky Business Forever. How to enjoy capitalism"
Anything these guys do read
"Shackleton's way. Leadership Lessons from a Great Antarctic Explorer"
Extreme leadership
“Good to great”
How to creating a winning culture and team
“Key management models”
Useful models and tools to frame issues
“Leading change”
Leading change
“Inside Drukers Brain”
If you haven’t read Druker you haven’t learnt about leadership and management
“Oversubscribed”
How to get customers to want more
“Hooked”
How to get customers to want more
“Alibaba”
Learning a different online culture
“Toni my story”
Creating multiple business models from one line of business
“Management In Ten Words”
Creating operating excellence
“Innoncent”
Creating a unique business model but also unique culture
“Making your strategy work”
Strategy made simple
“Leading after layoffs”
Dealing with redundancies
“Allan Leighton on leadership”
Learning from a master
“The ultimate strategy library”
Good thinking book on strategy
“Tough tactics for tough times”
Reminders of tactics to use if you need quick wins
“The real deal”
Practical learning on leadership
“Top Man”
Focus, determination and strong alliances
“Principles”
Leading using values
“ The little book of winning”
Exactly what it is
“Upside down management”
Empowerment
“Touching distance"
Determination
"10 rules for success"
Brand story
"Maggie The First Lady "
Leadership insights
"More than a game"
Winning
"Leadership secrets of Colin Powell"
Military leadership transferred to life
" My fight to the top"
Inspiration
"Common Sense Rules"
What you really need to know about business
"Bold as brass. My story"
Guts & Determination
"The ultimate retail manual"
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Other books I have read
I have highlighted the books you should read or ones I feel there is a more value and at the same time show you some others that I have looked at over the years. As you can tell from the content one thing that is vital in a leader is to always look for how they and their business can improve. Get that 1 % a day and that’s 36,5 % a year better and do that. It is very hard to compete with.
"Smat Retail"
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"The everything guide to starting and running a retail store"
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"The inevitable"
"Navigating the tech storm"
"Alan Sugar unscripted. My ten years in telly."
The four. The hidden DNA of Amazon, Facebook and Google
"How they started Global Brands"
"What exceptional leaders know"
"Amazon.com get big fast. Inside the revolutionary business model"
"Outside in. The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business"
"Onward"
"Free perfect and now"
"The upstarts"
"Thinking in new boxes. A new paradigm for business creativity"
"Leaders made here"
Building a leadership culture
" 9 powerful practices"
"Hooked. How to Build Habit-Forming Products"
"Challenge of big data analytics applications on healthcare"
" Richard Branson life lessons"
" Walt Disney life lessons"
" 5 conversations"
" The carrot principle"
"The hard thing about hard thing"s
"Fail your way to success "
"What it takes to be #1"
"Tycoon"
"Think like a freak"
" 17 checklist for effective change management"
"Small Giants"
"Alan Bristow helicopter pioneer"
"Steve Jobs"
"Get off yours ares two "
"What the most successful people do before breakfast"
"Inspiring leadership"
"15 essential marketing master classes"
"Gerald Ronson, leading from the front"
"Only the paranoid survive"
"Redefining healthcare"
"ASDA Magic: The 7 Principles of Building a High Performance Culture "
"Relentless Innovation"
"Steve Jobs. Returns with his Secrets"
"You build a business with people"
"The education of accidental CEO"
"How I made it"
"Digital Disruption"
"How to get rich"
"Thinking Statistically"
"Thinking fast and slow"
"The Facebook effect"
"Founders at work"
"Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) "
"The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company"
"The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History"
"How to Make Money: The Top Ten Business and Business Men of All Time
"Unusual People do Things Differently"
" Radicals & Visionaries: Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the 20th Century "
" The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google"
" The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life"
"How Netflix produces happy endings"
"Leaders Eat Last: Why some teams pull together and other don't"
"Boss Talk: Top CEOs Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies"
"Winston Churchill, CEO: 25 lessons from Bold Business Leaders"
"Winners & Losers: Creators & Casualties of the Age of the Internet"
"Upside down Management: A common sense guide to better business"
"The unauthorised guide to doing business the Simon Cowell Way"
"Traction: Get a grip on your business"
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead"
"Elon Musk"
"The Magic of Thinking Big"
"The Advantage: Why organisational health trumps everything else in business"
"If I could tell you just one thing: Encounters with remarkable people and their most valuable advice"
"Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike"
"Think your way to success: How to develop a mindset and achieve amazing results"
"Relentless: 12 Rounds to Success"
"The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st Century Workplace"
"People just People"
"Rebuilding the Brand: How Harley-Davidson Became King of the Road"
"Founder's Dilemmas"
"Howard Schultz: A Biography of the Starbucks Billionaire"
"This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox "
"The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results"
"Power"
"Extreme Ownership. How U.S. Navy Lead and Win"
"Leadership and Management in Healthcare"
"Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable"
"Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers"
"Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, and Organization Change"
The New Leadership Manifesto: How to deliver extraordinary results in our digital age "
"Breaking Through: Implementing Customer Focus in Enterprises "
"The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care"
"The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and Beat the Competition"
"Delivering and Measuring Customer Service : This isn't rocket Surgery!"
"Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind"
"In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies"
"Competing for the Future"
"Rebuilding Your Life After Redundancy "
"Winners Never Cheat"
"The 80/20 Principle, Expanded and Updated: The Secret to Achieving More with Less"
"The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value "
"The Discipline of Market Leaders"
"Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters"
"Why Teams Don't Work: What Went Wrong And How To Make It Right"
"Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times"
"Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill"
"Interactive Learning Events: A Guide for Facilitators "
"My Big Idea: 30 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Found Inspiration "
"The World if Flat"
"How I Made It: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal All"
"Building Great Customer Experiences (Beyond Philosophy)"
"The Art of War"
"Tough Tactics for Tough Times: How to Maintain Business Success in Difficult Economic Conditions "
"Cause and Effect Lean: Lean Operations, Six Sigma and Supply Chains Essentials"
"1001 Ways to Energise Employees"
"The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill "
"Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less"
"Beyond Reengineering: How the Process-Centered Organization is Changing Our Work and Our Lives"
"High Output Management "
"Leading your Team. Leading Your Team: How to Involve and Inspire Teams"
"Coaching for Performance. Growing People, Performance and Purpose"
" Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander"
"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be"
"Did You Spot The Gorilla?: How to Recognise the Hidden Opportunities in Your Life"
"How They Started: How 30 Good Ideas Became Great Businesses"
" The Stone-Age Company: Why the Companies We Work for Are Dying and How They Can Be Saved"
"Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change"
"Karaoke Capitalism: Managing for Mankind "
"Strategy Bites Back: It is a Lot more, and less, than you ever imagined"
"The Change Management Toolkit"
"Human Error"
"Creative Coaching"
"When Cultures Collide"
"The Ultimate Strategy Library: The 50 Most Influential Strategic Ideas of All Time
"Team-Building Activities for Every Group "
"Essential Retail KPIs"
Guts & Determination
"Leaders in lockdown"
"100 success lessons"
"The good jobs strategy"
"The winning mindset"
"iWoz"
"The strategic leaders roadmap"
"Enter the dragon"
"The art of innovation"
"How they started digital"
"The business book"
"Tribal leadership"
"The internet of healthy things"
"How to wow. Proven Strategies for Selling Yourself in any situation"
"Innovation prowess"
Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth