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One of the best things you can do if you want to gain an advantage in business is to become an avid reader. Research consistently affirms that it’s good practice for health and personal well-being. It’s also true that business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet et. al. are ravenous readers.

New business books are published yearly and read by millions. With an almost impossible amount to sort through, our Summit Club team has done the hard work for you by selecting the titles that have been tested and trusted references for many years.

THE SUMMIT CLUB RECOMMENDS

The Discipline of Market Leaders – Brian Treacy & Fred Wiersma

The classic bestseller outlining tactics for any business striving to achieve market dominance.

Featured in Episode 2: Pillars of Excellence

Winning – Jack Welch

Packed with personal anecdotes and written in Jack’s distinctive no b.s. voice, Winning offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems that will change the way people think about work.

Featured in Episode 2: Pillars of Excellence

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.

Featured in Episode 7: High Performance Teams (Pt.1)

The New One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

A new edition based on the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

Featured in Episode 7: High Performance Teams (Pt.1)

The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business.

Featured in Episode 10: Managed To Managing

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni’s utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.

Featured in Episode 8: Building High Performance Teams (Pt.2)

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Don Miguel Ruiz

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.

Featured in Episode 21: The Four Agreements

The Ideal Team Player – Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player.

Featured in Episode 14: The Ideal Team Player

A Message to Garcia – Elbert Hubbard

A Message to Garcia is Hubbard’s most famous work. In it, he argues that the greatest hero is the man who simply does his job, completing the task no matter what the obstacles.

Featured in Episode 16: A Message to Garcia

Good to Great – Jim Collins

Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch

In this remarkable autobiography, Jack Welch takes us on the rough-and-tumble ride that has been his remarkable life.

The Great Connection – Arnie Warren

This is a story that reveals life’s most vital lesson: how to connect with others — especially yourself. It defines who you are so you can believe in yourself, and explains the DISC behavioral styles in a story with characters representing each style.

Featured in Episode 18: Find Out For Free What Your Friends Won’t Tell You!

Jack Welch on Leadership – Jack Welch

Jack Welch on Leadership provides a rare glimpse into the mind and methods of the man Tom Brokaw dubbed “the smartest boss I ever had.”

People Buy You -Jeb Blount

This break-through book pushes past the typical focus on mechanics and stale processes found in so many of today’s sales and business books, and goes right to the heart of what matters most in 21st century business: You.

The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude – Jeffrey Gitomer

A complete, step-by-step, fully-integrated game plan for understanding and mastering your attitude. You’ll learn the specific things you can do to maintain your intensity, drive, and commitment and learn how to maintain your YES! Attitude every day .

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