One of the questions I am asked the most frequently is, “What blogs or business books would you most recommend?”
Well, for the me, the below is a working document of the websites, blogs, and books that have honestly made a marked difference in both my career and in how I think about retailing.
Favorite Follows on Email, Twitter, iTunes, etc:
Channel Mastery Podcast with Kristin Carpenter-Ogden of Verde Strategy
Top 10 Business Books (in rank order):
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- The World is Flat
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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