Whether you already have a business or you are working on some ideas to start your next venture, pick up one of these and you’ll find yourself inspired. Here are the top 10 books for any female entrepreneur.
1. LEAN IN :
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace. Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than six million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
1. LEAN IN :
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2. #GIRLBOSS :
The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By age twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school--a job she'd taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward eight years to today, and she's the Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Nasty Gal, a $100+ million online fashion retailer with over 350 employees.
3. HOOKED :
The book, 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products’ is an effective book for people who want to learn the art of selling products. This book derives strategies from stories of products that have made it big in their respective industries whilst citing the reasons for their success. Filled with critical insights, the usage of examples and anecdotes makes the content engaging and refreshing. The book is authored by Nir Eyal and was published by Portfolio Penguin publication in 2014.
4. The $100 Startup:
Change your job to change your life You no longer need to work nine-to-five in a big company to pay the mortgage, send your kids to school and afford that yearly holiday. You can quit the rat race and start up on your own - and you don't need an MBA or a huge investment to do it. The $100 Startup is your manual to a new way of living. Learn how to: - Earn as much as you would from a nine-to-five job but on your own terms, when and where you want - Achieve that perfect blend of passion and income to make work something you love - Take crucial insights from 50 ordinary people who started a business with $100 or less - Spend less time working and more time living your life 'The money you have is enough. Chris makes it crystal clear: there are no excuses left. START. Start now, not later.
5. Zero to One:
What Valuable Company is Nobody Building?
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there.
6. Thrive
We will pay a personal price if we don't redefine what success means and the price is currently much higher for women than for men. How do you define success? In the current model that we have come to accept, success is equated with overwork, burnout, sleep deprivation, never seeing your family, being connected through email 24 hours a day and exhaustion, put simply it isn't working. It's not working for women. It's not working for men. It's not working for companies, for any societies in which it's dominant or for the planet. In Thrive, Arianna Huffington (of Huffington Post fame) argues that a successful life is made up of more than just money and success and must also include what she calls 'The Third Metric' - personal care, health, and fulfillment.
7. The Lean Startup :
‘The Lean Start up- How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses’ is a book that explains how to work on your innovative concepts as businessman through moments of anxiety and dilemma. The way to start a company has changed drastically over the time and this book will explain you how to utilize this change to our benefit. The book provides the plan, how a 'startup' is a company devoted to creating something innovative under circumstances of extreme uncertainty. As per author Every one of us has one thing in common and that is to clear the way of uncertainty and reach the target of having a sustainable, unbeaten and balanced company.
8. The Confidence Code:
In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay completely undress the concept of confidence. Is it selfworth or self-esteem? Is it real or imagined? They endeavor to understand how widespread the lack of it is and how this impacts the larger subject of leadership and success. They dig into the critical question of growing up female: where confidence comes from and why it feels so ephemeral. By examining cutting-edge research, sharing their own and other notable women's stories and providing practical principles, Kay and Shipman do more than merely admonish women to "lean in" to their careers. Rather, they give them the inspiration and the tools to close the gap between insecurity and fulfillment.
9. Start With Why:
Each and every one of us in this world wants to become rich and successful. We aim to become successful in businesses, ventures, relationships and ultimately in life. However, to be frank, most of us fail to become one or are partially successful in whatever we start off with. The author of the book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, feels that there is a reason behind it. Simon Sinek states the reason why some people are innovative, influential and more profitable than others is because they commenced their journey with 'why'.
10: Getting to Yes :
Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years, and in that time has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives.
Including principles such as:
Don't bargain over positions
Separate the people from the problem and
Insist on objective criteria
Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.
4. The $100 Startup:
Change your job to change your life You no longer need to work nine-to-five in a big company to pay the mortgage, send your kids to school and afford that yearly holiday. You can quit the rat race and start up on your own - and you don't need an MBA or a huge investment to do it. The $100 Startup is your manual to a new way of living. Learn how to: - Earn as much as you would from a nine-to-five job but on your own terms, when and where you want - Achieve that perfect blend of passion and income to make work something you love - Take crucial insights from 50 ordinary people who started a business with $100 or less - Spend less time working and more time living your life 'The money you have is enough. Chris makes it crystal clear: there are no excuses left. START. Start now, not later.
5. Zero to One:
What Valuable Company is Nobody Building?
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there.
6. Thrive
We will pay a personal price if we don't redefine what success means and the price is currently much higher for women than for men. How do you define success? In the current model that we have come to accept, success is equated with overwork, burnout, sleep deprivation, never seeing your family, being connected through email 24 hours a day and exhaustion, put simply it isn't working. It's not working for women. It's not working for men. It's not working for companies, for any societies in which it's dominant or for the planet. In Thrive, Arianna Huffington (of Huffington Post fame) argues that a successful life is made up of more than just money and success and must also include what she calls 'The Third Metric' - personal care, health, and fulfillment.
7. The Lean Startup :
‘The Lean Start up- How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses’ is a book that explains how to work on your innovative concepts as businessman through moments of anxiety and dilemma. The way to start a company has changed drastically over the time and this book will explain you how to utilize this change to our benefit. The book provides the plan, how a 'startup' is a company devoted to creating something innovative under circumstances of extreme uncertainty. As per author Every one of us has one thing in common and that is to clear the way of uncertainty and reach the target of having a sustainable, unbeaten and balanced company.
8. The Confidence Code:
In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay completely undress the concept of confidence. Is it selfworth or self-esteem? Is it real or imagined? They endeavor to understand how widespread the lack of it is and how this impacts the larger subject of leadership and success. They dig into the critical question of growing up female: where confidence comes from and why it feels so ephemeral. By examining cutting-edge research, sharing their own and other notable women's stories and providing practical principles, Kay and Shipman do more than merely admonish women to "lean in" to their careers. Rather, they give them the inspiration and the tools to close the gap between insecurity and fulfillment.
9. Start With Why:
Each and every one of us in this world wants to become rich and successful. We aim to become successful in businesses, ventures, relationships and ultimately in life. However, to be frank, most of us fail to become one or are partially successful in whatever we start off with. The author of the book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, feels that there is a reason behind it. Simon Sinek states the reason why some people are innovative, influential and more profitable than others is because they commenced their journey with 'why'.
10: Getting to Yes :
Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years, and in that time has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives.
Including principles such as:
Don't bargain over positions
Separate the people from the problem and
Insist on objective criteria
Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.