Magazines
Business Week, Forbes or Fortune
Tip: Ask for a subscription to one of these for your birthday
Trade magazines in your industry Nashville Business Journal
Books
General Business
In Search of Excellence - Tom Peters & Robert Waterman
Good to Great - Jim Collins
The One Minute Manager- Ken Blanchard
Nuts (about Southwest Airlines) - Kevin & Jackie Freiberg
Indispensable or Becoming a Category of One - Joe Calloway
Any book about your industry
Personal Development
You are the Message - Roger Ailes
What Got You Here Won’t Get you There - Marshall Goldsmith
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question - John G. Miller
Now Discover Your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham
The Five Temptations of a CEO - Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Emerging Issues
The Post American World - Fareed Zakaria
The Empty Cradle - Phillip Longman (or any book about world demographics)
Green to Gold (winning and being green at the same time) - Andrew Winston
Biographies
Choose business leaders who have excelled in your industry
Choose big time successful people like Sam Walton and Jack Welch
History
American history first - understand how the US was built and how it operates
Then read about the countries that you trade with
Read about China and India
Fortunes Fiddles & Fried Chicken – Bill Carey (Nashville business history)
The Retail Business World
Sam Walton, Made in America - Sam Walton with John Huey
The Wal*Mart Way - Don Soderquist
Built from Scratch, the Home Depot story - Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank
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