Book reviews of business books are a constant request. Truly not a day goes by that I don't see at least one book review request in my inbox. The ones I follow up on are few. The business books I bother to read have to be relevant to small business owners and engaging. I've fought my way through enough boring books already. So whether the book reviews that follow are positive or negative, these are all business books that I've bothered to read all the way through; they're interesting in one way or another.
Here are my book reviews of business books of particular interest to small business owners from book reviews of computer manuals through management guides.
1. Book Review: Accelerating Out of the Great Recession
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One person's disaster is another person's opportunity and when you have whole economies crashing - well, that just multiplies the opportunities. How well-managed companies can use troubled economic times to vault ahead of their "slow-to-react or indecisive competitors".
2. Book Review: Am I the Only Sane One Working Here?
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Subtitled "101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity", Am I the Only Sane One Working Here? by Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D. is a manual for dealing with difficult people. As a small business owner it will quickly become your Bible for managing people.
3. Book Review: The Canadian Small Business Owner's Guide to Financial Independence
Could it be? A book that actually provides small business retirement planning advice that someone like me could or would actually follow?
4. Book Review: Make Sure It's Deductible
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Make Sure It's Deductible is a surprisingly readable book. I expected a book subtitled "Little-Known Tax Tips for Your Canadian Small Business" to be pretty dry going. But Evelyn Jacks' writing style and use of real-life tax scenarios season the tax facts nicely…
5. Book Review: The Secret Language of Money
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The intent of The Secret Language of Money is good (to enable people to make wiser financial decisions) but the execution is off-putting. The authors' insistence on illustrating almost every point with one or more real life examples and breaking all the text into web-worthy snippets becomes irritating…
6. Book Review: Windows 7: The Definitive Guide
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Although not a "Windows 7 for Beginners" book, Windows 7: The Definitive Guide does cover a lot of the basics of Windows 7, making this Windows 7 manual appeal to a broad range of users. Advanced Users (and Systems Administrators) will appreciate the detailed coverage of system management issues.
7. The Drucker Lectures
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Don't let the title of this book put you off; reading The Drucker Lectures is a treat. While you might expect a collection of lectures from the man hailed as the father of management to be a dry affair, The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society, and Economy, by Peter F. Drucker edited by Rick Wartzman, is anything but.
