Best Business Books 2019

Best Business Books 2019 + Book of the Year 2019

Best Business Books 2019 My Best Business Books 2019… Each year I read a lot of books – in the range of 40-55 books. And given I’m always reading and always talking about the best business books, it makes sense that people ask me what I’m reading and what I’d recommend. To help with this […]

Best Books 2017 for Business and Life

Book of the Year 2017

Best Books 2017 Best Books 2017? Over the past decade – since I started Book Rapper – I’ve often been asked by friends and colleagues to recommend my best books to read. During this time, I’ve read over 450 books fuelled by an annual goal to read 50 books. This year (2017) I made it […]

Top 10 Business Books for 2018

Top Ten Business Books of the Year What are the top 10 business books for 2018? And what is your book of the year? Each year, I aim to read 50 books. In 2018, I fell a few short and read 40 books. Still a good result. From this list of books I’ve selected my […]

Leadership Development: Best Business Books to Read

Best business books for leadership development

Leadership Development What are the best business books to read for leadership development? For a long while I had dismissed leadership development as a topic overblown by it’s own self-importance. For me, so many of the best business books that I had read (over 450 in the past decade) talked about leadership as if they […]

Best Business Books to Increase Productivity

Best business books for productivity

The Best Business Books What are the best business books to increase productivity? I have a strong personal interest in this question. As I wrote in my book Done: How to finish your projects when traditional ways don’t work, I had a serious problem finishing things – at one point I had over 25 half-written […]

How to be focused and stay focused at work

What does it mean to be focused? To be focused, we first need to define what we’re talking about. According to Google, the word ‘focus’ is searched between one million and ten million times every single month. That makes it a very popular and desirable thing. While some of these searches are looking for a […]

How to Write Motivational Stories like Stephen King

Motivational Stories Motivational stories are crucial to our success in life and at work. As human beings, we live in language. And the primary way we do that is to tell stories. We tell stories to others, perhaps at bedtime or in meetings, and we tell stories to ourselves about how the world is and […]

Getting Grit – Book Review

Caroline Adams Miller - Getting Grit

Book Review: Getting Grit Caroline Adams Miller; Getting Grit: The Evidence based approach to cultivating passion, perseverance and purpose. In creating Project Passion I had compiled a great selection of strategies for getting more done. (Many of them are in my book Done) When I read this book I realized I’d made a really big […]

How to Attract Referrals

Your Referral Trumpet

How to build a business that Generates Leads and Referrals for You How to build a business that generates leads and referrals for you is based on the Book Rapper summary of John Jantsch’s book The Referral Engine. [Updated and Edited 10 May 2022]. The Big Idea Too often referrals are a BTW – “By […]

Cal Newport Career Advice

Cal Newport: Career Advice to Find Work You Love Cal Newport has written another great book. His latest effort, So Good They Can’t Ignore You asks the important question: Why do some people end up loving what they do, while so many others don’t? And his reply is not to follow your passion. Who is Cal […]