Pricing, Value Creation, and Value-based Salemanship:
- Ron Baker: Implementing Value Pricing
- Blair Enns: Pricing Creativity
- Rhondalynn-Korolak: Pricing Value
- Alan Weiss: Value-Based Fees
- Markus Husemann-Kopetzky: Handbook on the Psychology of Pricing
- Bartley J. Madden: Value Creation Principles
Salemanship
- Matthew Dixon: The Challenger Sale
- Phil M. Jones: Exactly What to Say
- Daniel Pink: To Sell is Human
- Jeff Blount: Fanatical Prospecting
Marketing & Strategic Positioning
- Tim Williams: Positioning for Professionals
- Blair Enns: Win Without Pitching Manifesto
- Donald Miller: Building a StoryBrand
- Seth Godin: Purple Cow
- W. Chan Kim: Blue Ocean Strategy
- Rory Sutherland: Alchemy
- Peter Thiel: Zero to One
- Marcus Sheridan: They Ask, You Answer
Productization & Subscription Business
- Tien Tzou: Subscribed
- John Warrillow: The Automatic Customer
- Max Traylor: Agency Survival Guide – How to Productize Consulting Services
Innovation & Business Model Design
- Joseph Pine: The Experience Economy
- Clayton Christensen: Competing Against Luck
- Michael Gerber: The E-Myth
- Gino Wickman: Traction
- Alexander Osterwalder: Business Model Generation
- Tom Peters: In Search of Excellence
Providing Advisory & Expertise/Consulting Services:
- Peter Block: Flawless Consulting and/or The Answer to How is YES
- Mahan Khalsa: Let’s Get Real or Let’s not Play
- David Maister: The Trusted Advisor
- David C. Baker: The Business of Expertise
- Patrick Lencioni: Getting Naked
Life, Business, and Leadership
- Ray Dalio: Principles
- John Mackey: Conscious Leadership
- Simon Sinek: The Infinite Game
- Peter Drucker: The Effective Executive or anything from Drucker really…
- Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Seth Godin: The Practice
- Robert Iger: Ride of a Lifetime
- Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements – Guide to Personal Freedom
Fiction/Literature (Non-Business)
- George Orwell: 1984 and/or Animal Farm
- Ray Bradbury: Farenheight 451
- Paulo Cohelo: The Alchemist
- Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
- Alexander Dumas: The Count Of Monte Cristo
- Miguel de Servantes: Don Quixote
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World