What Books Are In A CEO's Library?

Never underestimate the amount of value you can receive from books. A book has the power to double your income, provide you with direction, boost your professional career and enhance your entrepreneurial spirit. 

If you're struggling to afford higher education, books are affordable and easily accessible. Just pop down to your local op shop or check out online marketplaces such as Facebook or eBay. Look out for industry and coaching experts. Their books provide you with insight into their life experiences, high-performance habits and industry knowledge that will serve you on your journey. 

Now, you might be thinking that books can drag out, and that can be true! If you're reading for professional development and you're often lost for time, consider going to the contents page. Find something that sounds interesting to you and skim-read the chapter for value. You want to find the hidden golden nugget- the value jackpot. Take this value and implement it in your life. Remember, knowledge without implementation gets you nowhere. On that note, here are some of my book recommendations to get you started...

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It... and Why the Rest Don't By Verne Harnish 

Verne Harnish and his co-authors discuss practical tools and techniques for entrepreneurial growth and building an industry-dominating business. You'll learn how you can best empower your team to work together to achieve results. Scaling Up is a must-read for entrepreneurs wanting to up their game, teams and their business.

Tools Of Titans By Tim Ferriss

If you're seeking to improve your wellbeing, financial situation, wisdom and career, Tools Of Titans by Tim Ferriss is for you! You will learn a collection of tactics, routines, and habits from billionaires, icons, and world-class performers. 

Furthermore, Tim Ferriss identifies and discusses overlapping traits from his interviews. The first is that successful people practice daily mindfulness or meditation. Secondly, they believe that failure is not durable and thirdly, that one must have the ability to convert weakness into a competitive advantage. These high performers were the first to admit that they are a collection of walking flaws. 

This Is Marketing By Seth Godin

Seth Godin is an author, entrepreneur and teacher. Seth believes that marketers and leaders must first focus on deploying empathy and identifying and solving other people's problems. He'll walk you through how to truly engage with the people you seek to influence. This Is Marketing will change your perspective on how you should approach marketing and people.

High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way By Brendon Burchard

Have you ever wondered why some individuals or teams succeed more quickly than others and maintain their success over the long term? If you're curious about how high performers seem to keep motivated and their daily practices, this book is for you. Brendon Burchard is the world's leading high-performance coach and his extensive research on high performers encouraged him to develop six deliberate habits that will give you the edge and ability to succeed long-term. 

Start With Why By Simon Sinek

 Leaders who hold the greatest influence think, act and communicate in the same way. This powerful idea is called The Golden Circle, and it is a framework on how organisations can be built, movements can be lead, and people can become inspired. It starts with WHY. Get to the core of your WHY and your customers'. Read this book. 

Honourable Mentions 

• The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies by Chet Holmes
• Living With A Navy Seal by Jesse Itzler 
• The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Sell Or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life by Grant Cardone
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by James C. Collins
• A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind
• No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer 
• Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business by Gino Wickman
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

If you're interested to learn about my model for success, check out my article, "3 Words That Will Guarantee Your Success".

Successful people understand that there will always be new things to learn and experience. Uncover the knowledge of these industry professionals and coaching experts by reading their books. You're sitting in their college lecture, and they're feeding you all their knowledge neatly organised. The best part is that they can travel to where you are anytime and anywhere to help you along your journey to success.  

Keep learning, 

Kobi Simmat - Director & CEO of the Best Practice Group.