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Top 5 Books That Masterfully Blend Military Strategy with Business Success, recommended by Keira Gould

1

Business Warfare: A framework for business strategy based on Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Foch and Machiavel
by Paulo Cardoso Do Amaral

2

THE ART OF STRATEGY: Steps Towards Business Agility (CHANGE, LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY FROM FIRST PRIN
by Erik Schön, Sun Tzu, John Boyd, Simon Wardley & Hisayo Oki

3

The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership
by Martin Gutmann

4

Management in Times of War: Leadership Examples from Ukraine’s Government and Private Sector
by Kostiantyn Koshelenko, Lauren Young, Shane ONeal, Greg Mckeown, Ian Bremmer, Kurt Matzler, David Rog

5

The Warfare of Business: Battle-Tested Strategies for Business Success
by Dan Knudson

Top 5 Books That Masterfully Blend Military Strategy with Business Success

by Keira Gould

Top 5 Books for Entrepreneurs Looking to Exit Their Business Successfully, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

The Exit Roadmap: The insider’s guide to selling your business profitably
by Chris Spratling

2

Go Sell My Business: Demystifying Your Exit Strategy
by Mark Masiak & Adrian Bromell

3

Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret
by Rob Walling, Sherry Walling PhD & John Warrillow

4

Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.: Serial Entrepreneurs' Secrets Revealed!
by Colin C. Campbell

5

The Exit-Strategy Playbook: The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Business
by Adam Coffey

Top 5 Books for Entrepreneurs Looking to Exit Their Business Successfully

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books For Businesses Looking to Accelerate Growth, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Data Impact: How legacy businesses SAVE LEVERAGE ALIGN SIMPLIFY OPTIMISE GROW to WIN
by Ritavan

2

Remarkable Business Growth: Your blueprint for 7 figures and beyond
by Richard Mawer

3

Seven Steps to Build a Multimillion Business with Smart Marketing and AI: The Modern Entrepreneur's
by Vitalij Kolotikov

4

The Six-Minute Entrepreneur: 52 Short Lessons for Long-Term Business Success
by Sara Davies

5

THE BUSINESS GROWTH CODE: The Strategic Roadmap to Scaling a Business While Maintaining Quality, Mul
by Seth Carrington

Top 5 Books For Businesses Looking to Accelerate Growth

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books for the Leaders of Tomorrow, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

The Neglected Acts of Leadership: And how music can help you rediscover them
by Andy Dent, Catrina Hewitson & Caroline Taylor

2

17 Secrets of True Leadership: How to Become a Leader People Respect, Follow and Admire.
by Albion Burns

3

Leadership 5.0: A Guide to Leadership Strategy and Tactics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Luca Nuvole

4

Leadership & Culture: Why Managers Fail and Leaders Prevail: The 5 Essential Leadership Skills for C
by John & Katie McCann

5

How to Talk to Anyone and Lead with Impact: Engage, Inspire, Motivate, and Influence Your Team Throu
by Carl Wolfe

Top 5 Books for the Leaders of Tomorrow

by Daisy Reynolds

American Revolutionaries, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

2

Eugene V. Debs Speaks
by Eugene V. Debs

3

The Haymarket Tragedy
by Paul Avrich

4

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary
by Carolyn Ashbaugh

5

Teamster Rebellion
by Farrell Dobbs

American Revolutionaries

by Franklin Ridgway

Top 5 Books to Unlock the Leader Within You, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

The Through Line: How understanding who you are empowers how you lead
by Archana Mohan

2

Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek

3

Develop Your Leadership Superpowers: 50 Key Skills You Need to Succeed as a Leader
by Dietmar Sternad & Eva Kobin

4

Lead Forward! Leadership Skills for Managers: Instill Confidence in the Workplace, Propel Team Enage
by Robert Short

5

The Concise Leadership Textbook: Essential Knowledge and Skills for Developing Yourself as a Leader
by Daniel Pittino

Top 5 Books to Unlock the Leader Within You

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books for Supercharging Customer Experience, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Dare to C.A.R.E: Unlock your potential to transform your life, well-being and customer experience
by Carmen F. Vlasceanu PhD & Robert Richardson

2

The Customer Copernicus
by Charlie Dawson & Seán Meehan

3

The Human Experience: How to make life better for your customers and create a more successful organi
by John Sills

4

How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing
by Adrian Swinscoe

5

Think Human: The Customer Experience Revolution in the Digital Age
by Olivier Duha

Top 5 Books for Supercharging Customer Experience

by Daisy Reynolds

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
by Karl Marx & Frederic L. Bender

2

Essential Works of Lenin:
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

3

Reform Or Revolution And Other Writings (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by Rosa Luxemburg

4

History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky

5

Selected Writings
by Alexandra Kollontai

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists

by Franklin Ridgway

Top 5 Books for Lasting Personal Growth, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

The Human TOUCH: A mirror for self-reflection
by Sukaiyna Gokal

2

Self-Motivation Mindset: Achieve Unstoppable Drive with Empowered Strategies to Unleash Self-Discipl
by Laurie James & Penny K

3

Daily Self-Improvement: Practical Strategies for Personal Growth, Building Habits, and Achieving Suc
by K. Connors

4

Personal Development for Smart People
by Steve Pavlina

5

How to Be Better Book: A Complete Guide to Personal Growth (Self Help Books)
by Skriuwer .com

Top 5 Books for Lasting Personal Growth

by Daisy Reynolds

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math, recommended by Karen Carlson

1

Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
by Ben Orlin

2

Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
by Ben Orlin

3

The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking
by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

4

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Ian Stewart

5

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math

by Karen Carlson

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