Secondhand Business & Self-Improvement Bargain Book Box SP4114

Secondhand Business & Self-Improvement Bargain Book Box SP4114

Eighteen business and personal-development books, half hardback: Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog, James Clear’s Atomic Habits, Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance, Crucial Conversations, Gerber’s E-Myth Revisited and Most Successful Small Business, two de Bonos, Sun Tzu for executives, Chin-Ning Chu’s Thick Face Black Heart, Kate Murphy’s You’re Not Listening, Sahil Bloom’s 5 Types of Wealth and the rest. The airport shelf, with the good ones on it.

1. The Most Successful Small Business in the World — Michael E. Gerber — The ten principles, from the E-Myth author: why most small businesses are jobs in disguise, and how to build one that runs without you. Hardback.
2. Reframe — Eric Knight — How to solve the world’s trickiest problems by changing the question, from an Australian Rhodes Scholar. An original and vital contribution, says Matt Ridley.
3. Honey, I Want to Start My Own Business — Azriela Jaffe — A planning guide for couples: what happens to the marriage when one of you quits the day job. Foreword by John Gray. Hardback.
4. You’re Smarter Than They Make You Feel — Paula J. Caplan — How the experts intimidate us, and what to do about it. A Harvard psychologist on authority and the people who abuse it. Hardback.
5. Irrational Exuberance — Robert J. Shiller — The Yale economist who called the dot-com bubble in March 2000, the month it burst, and then called the housing bubble in this second edition. Nobel Prize 2013; the one book on markets worth owning. Hardback.
6. Shoe Dog — Phil Knight — Blue Ribbon Sports, a car boot full of Japanese running shoes, a waffle iron, and the twenty years of near-bankruptcy before Nike. The best business memoir ever written, says Bill Gates, and he’s right.
7. The Art of War for Executives — Donald G. Krause — Sun Tzu’s text, interpreted line by line for the boardroom. The one that started the genre.
8. When They Zig, You Zag — Siimon Reynolds — How to achieve success, health and happiness by doing the opposite of everyone else. The Australian adman’s contrarian manual.
9. Thick Face, Black Heart — Chin-Ning Chu — Thriving and succeeding in everyday life and work using the ancient wisdom of the East: how to be thick-skinned and ruthless without losing yourself. The international bestseller that made Chu a name.
10. You’re Not Listening — Kate Murphy — What you’re missing and why it matters: a journalist on the lost art of hearing people out, with the science of why we don’t. Fiercely topical, says the Times.
11. Lateral Thinking — Edward de Bono — The original 1970 book that coined the term, with the techniques: random entry, provocation, the reversal method. Penguin Life edition.
12. The E-Myth Revisited — Michael E. Gerber — Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it: the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur, and the franchise prototype. Half a million copies, and still the small-business book.
13. Crucial Conversations — Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler — Tools for talking when stakes are high, opinions differ and emotions run strong. Foreword by Stephen Covey; the book HR departments hand out, and deservedly.
14. The Big Drop — James Rickards — How to grow your wealth during the coming collapse, from the Currency Wars author. Doom with a portfolio.
15. If You Haven’t Got the Time to Do It Right, When Will You Find the Time to Do It Over? — Jeffrey J. Mayer — The time-management system that will save you an hour a day. Clear your desk first.
16. The 5 Types of Wealth — Sahil Bloom — Time, social, mental, physical and financial: the life planner companion to the Sunday Times bestseller. Hardback journal.
17. Serious Creativity — Edward de Bono — Using the power of lateral thinking to create new ideas: de Bono’s most systematic book, with the techniques laid out as tools.
18. Atomic Habits — James Clear — Tiny changes, remarkable results: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying. Over a million copies sold, says the sticker; it’s now past fifteen million, and it’s the one that actually works.