Your favorite short business book (under 100 pages)

[brute77]

Sometimes a short read has more impact than a 400 page book and I have come across a few such books in my life. This is my first post on this forum, hoping to make a few friends in the fastlane..

My favorite short business books have to be ...

1. Lucky or Smart - Bo Peobody (excellent read..)
2. The Max strategy - Dale Dauten (Thought provoking insight)
3. Skill with people - Les Giblin (Must read)

 

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[ivo]

Obvious Adams, published in 1916, but points made in the book are timeless

 

[santa]

Felix Dennis - 88
It's very short- (it has morepages, but half are blank - for your own notes, and a lof of those pages are only half filled).
Haven't finished it. I just read a page now and again. Has some good distilled info

 

[Pinnacle]

Seth Godin - ​The Dip

 

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[Milkanic]

Og Mandino - The Greatest Salesman in the World

 

[flintinatux]

Og Mandino - The Greatest Salesman in the World

+1 for the Greatest Salesman! And I'm copying this list somewhere so I can go find and read all of these books.

Makes me glad I wandered back into this forum. I feel I'm in good company now!

 

[JAJT]

Greatest Salesman, for those unfamiliar, is basically brute-force brainwashing yourself into positive results/habits.

It has a short introduction and then has 10 chapters or "scrolls" with a new lesson for success on each chapter. You are supposed to read the first scroll three times a day for a month before moving onto scroll 2, etc... The book takes 10 months to read if you follow directions.

He wrote it way back when for insurance salesmen, if I recall, and it became an instant hit and hasn't lost momentum since.

I've used the audio book on my way to/from work at a REALLY painful job (cold calling, low pay, bad work environment) and it really, really improved my mood and attitude while I was using it. It DOES work, regardless of the extremely cheesy content.

It is basically the same technique that Napoleon Hill suggests for auto-suggestion, except the words are given to you rather than setting your own goals.

 

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[Milkanic]

I've used the audio book on my way to/from work at a REALLY painful job (cold calling, low pay, bad work environment) and it really, really improved my mood and attitude while I was using it. It DOES work, regardless of the extremely cheesy content.

Ha, I read it every morning eating breakfast before selling door-to-door.

“I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?”
I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday’s sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?”