This is one of my favorite quotes: “You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you meet and the books you read.”
― Charles Jones

I often get credit for the culture we have at our company or the way we cultivate the relationships with our clients, but the truth is that I have learned everything I know from a couple of great mentors and the things written in the books I’ve recommended below.

These authors have served as great inspiration for me and given our team direction when we needed to strengthen our foundation. May they serve the same for you.

If you ever want to chat about the concepts represented on this list, feel free to make an appointment with me and we can chat over coffee.

• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
• Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni
• The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman
• Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service by Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
• EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey
• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene’ Brown
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently by John Maxwell
• Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . And Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
• The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg & John David Mann
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Reuben
• The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton
• The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick Lencioni
• Tribes by Seth Godin
• The Wizard of Ads by Roy Williams