BACN Book Recommendations

Books by BACN Authors:

• Easy Genius (Chance Massaro & Steve Wallis)
  
• How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain (Eve Abbott)
  
• How to Grow Your Business without Driving Yourself Crazy (Mike Van Horn)
  
• Roberta’s Rules of Order: Sail Through Meetings for Stellar Results without the Gavel (Alice Collier Cochran)
• Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building that Gets Results (Elinor Stutz)

Books by BACN Speakers:

• Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference (Keith Merron)
• Selling to Big Companies (Jill Konrath)
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Clients (Jeffrey J. Fox)
• Secrets of Great Rainmakers (Jeffrey J. Fox)
• Get Clients Now: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants (C.J. Hayden)
• The Power of the 2x2 Matrix: Using 2x2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make Better Decisions (Alex Lowy and Phil Hood)

BACN Reading List, 02-22-08:

• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Eckhart Tolle)
• Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness (Jeffrey Gitomer)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip and Dan Heath)
• Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync? (Seth Godin)
• The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around The World Live And Buy As They Do (Clotaire Rapaille)
• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) (Seth Godin)
• The Expert’s Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn to Every Time (Ken Lizotte)
• The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You (Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, Tim Burress, and Ken Blanchard)
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Eckhart Tolle)
  
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)

Most-Recommended 9-23-05:

• Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz)—three recommendations
  
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)—two recommendations
  
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (James Surowiecki)—two recommendations
  
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Thomas L. Friedman)

BACN Reading List, 9-23-05:

• Visionary Companies (Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras)
  
• Competing for the Future (Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad)
  
• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (Patrick M. Lencioni)
  
• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time (Susan Scott)
  
• Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (Peter Block)
  
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
  
• Get Clients Now: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants (C.J. Hayden)
  
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (David Allen)
  
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Clients (Jeffrey J. Fox)
  
• Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends (Tim Sanders)
  
• Marketing Your Services: For People Who Hate to Sell (Rick Crandall)
  
• Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice (Alan Weiss)
  
• Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health (Andrew T. Weil)
  
• Re-Engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Michael Hammer and James Champy)
  
• Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (T. Harv Eker)
  
• Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work (Marie G. McIntyre)
  
• Selling to the Old Brain: How New Discoveries In Brain Research Empower You To Influence Any Audience, Anytime (Patrick Renvoise and Christophe Morin)
  
• Success That Matters: How the World’s Most Successful People Create a Life Built to Last (forthcoming from http://www.successthatmatters.com)
  
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
  
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger)
  
• The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do (Geoffrey M. Bellman)
  
• The Consultative Approach: Partnering for Results! (Virginia LaGrossa and Suzanne Saxe)
  
• The Fifth Discipline (Peter M. Senge)
  
• The InfoGuru Marketing Manual (Robert Middleton; order from his website.
  
• The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action (Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton)
  
• The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life’s Dreams (Tim Sanders)
  
• The One Page Business Plan (James T. Horan)
  
• The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization (John Hagel III and John Seely Brown)
  
• The Power of the 2x2 Matrix: Using 2x2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make Better Decisions (Alex Lowy and Phil Hood)
  
• Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success (Art Kleiner)

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