Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (Howard Schultz)

by Claire Jones | Nov 18, 2020 | Reading List

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you are interested in learning about all of the trials and tribulations that Howard Schultz experienced as he was scaling his entrepreneurial, local company into a professionally managed global corporation, then this is the book for you. It is absolutely...

If You Want It Done Right, You Don’t Have to Do It Yourself! (Donna M. Genett)

by Claire Jones | May 11, 2020 | Reading List

⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ In this delightful, quick to read, business management allegory, Donna M. Genett Ph.D., uses an entertaining narrative about identical cousins, James and Jones, to introduce her successful six-step program for effective delegation. Whether you are the one...

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (Robert Kegan)

by Claire Jones | May 4, 2020 | Reading List

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As a radical new model for unleashing your company’s potential, this book is an absolutely inspiring game changer for the world of business and the world of personal development. It demonstrates a whole new way of being at work. It suggests that the...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (Jim Collins)

by Claire Jones | Apr 27, 2020 | Reading List

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is at the top of my list when it comes to business books. To find the keys to greatness, Collins’s 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of...

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Michael Gerber)

by Claire Jones | Apr 13, 2020 | Reading List

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how...