Best Independent Books November 28
We are delighted to recommend the following books from the independent publishing sector.
NON-FICTION
UNLEASH the potential and make it happen
by Patrick Steiner
This guide to thriving in the digital world is tailored for businesses and leaders. A practical handbook, it demystifies the digital landscape with real-world solutions, such as the Digital Success Canvas and the Digital Pulse Check, for evaluation and planning.
More than just a book, this is a toolkit for transformation. Featuring pragmatic levers and modules for digital success, it converts theory into action, providing a structured approach to implementing digital strategies. It demonstrates how to navigate complexities with ease and make informed decisions.
This guide is an accessible companion for turning digital challenges into victories. It shows not only how to survive but to thrive in the digital age, leveraging every opportunity with confidence and clarity. The book is not an endpoint but a gateway — a gateway to a world of digital excellence, collaboration and continuous growth.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-3952598818
Sweetie, That's Not Sweets!
by Dr. Kathleen Humel
This book teaches children the importance of only taking medicine as directed by a healthcare provider, parent or guardian to ensure safety and proper treatment.
The author, a pharmacist, uses verse to deliver the educational message in an engaging and accessible way. At the center of the story is the parent-child relationship, pointing children to trust the advice of their parents in relation to medicine.
The book contains valuable insights and tips for parents and caregivers from an expert in the field. It puts safety at the heart of the conversation about medicine.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Children’s
ISBN: 978-1637351734
Falling Forward: A Guide for Facing Adversity and Planning Your Life
by Gordon Wollman
This compelling guide explores the balance between personal and professional life. It emphasizes that the qualities that make a good businessman and a good human being are one and the same, encapsulated in the golden rule of “do unto others...”
The author recounts a journey through his life experiences — from the farm to the army to financial success. He shares his accumulated wisdom with plainspoken sincerity, always moving toward self-improvement and positively impacting the community surrounding him. He outlines the habits, skills and mindsets required for making a plan, adapting that plan when necessary, and moving forward to transform past failures into future success. It provides insights on how to balance business and personal lives, understand that mistakes are only failures if people choose not to learn from them, and improve self-awareness by seeking counsel to overcome blind spots.
The book also highlights the importance of people surrounding themselves with success and it shares how the author has overcome personal and professional setbacks and how the adversity has made him a better person and leader.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352489
TOO BLUE!: The IBM PC from an Acorn to a Renegade
by Dennis Andrews
Long before Apple became a household name and Bill Gates the poster child for computational wealth, there was IBM — a few crazy visionaries who saw a future no one else could have predicted. In this thrilling work, the author pulls back the curtain of IBM’s history to reveal the sometimes serendipitous, sometimes nerve-racking, technological race to develop a computer that would change the course of history.
The author tells how a small, relatively unknown team of engineers at IBM colored outside the blue line, thus shifting IBM’s mainframe business to an untapped and ‘fruitless’ market; pitched and signed what was then a small but feisty Microsoft Corporation to the Acorn Project; fought a corporate slew of internal naysayers that deemed the personal computer a risky and unnecessary reputational hazard; elevated the PC from relative obscurity to a household product for millions worldwide; took the IBM PC from zero units in 1980 to more than 2 million units in 1984 and a 34 percent market share; and developed a road map for pioneering tech startups.
This story of what almost never was reads as a breathtaking technological adventure fraught with corporate perils and groundbreaking innovation.
A nice combination of technical subject and history... makes this piece of work interesting and absorbing. — GoodreadsHonors: seen on ABC, CBS and NBC
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637350034
The Revenue Catalyst: Mastering the Art of Sales
by Geoffrey M. Reid
This book contains a detailed account of the latest and greatest in online marketing strategies for car dealers looking to take their digital marketing to the next level.
The author tells what it takes to plan and implement a strategy for search marketing that uses the latest techniques to maximize the return on investment. He provides a detailed description of Google ranking signals to help improve the search engine optimization and jumpstart organic search traffic. He reveals advanced pay-per-click implementations to revamp Google Ads campaigns and increase business immediately.
In this book, the author explains how to select an advertising agency, evaluate performance, and optimize campaigns consistently.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352793
In case you missed the books featured in the last newsletter, here they are again:
NON-FICTION
Leadership DNA: Shaping A Thriving Business Culture
by Alinka Rutkowska, Deepak Bhootra, Brandon C. Blewett et al.
This book showcases the real stories, insights and strategies of successful leaders across industries. This compelling anthology explores whether great leaders are born or made and provides practical examples of how they overcome adversity to inspire change.
It features contributions from entrepreneurs, corporate executives and industry visionaries. Insights include how an entrepreneur revived her business by focusing on mental health and fostering resilience within her team, illustrating the importance of well-being in leadership. Another contribution tells how a co-founder scaled his startup from zero to $1 million in just six months by leading with adaptability and purpose, offering key lessons in rapid growth. One of the leaders describes how she broke through barriers in male-dominated industries, transforming challenges into opportunities with inclusive leadership, offering invaluable insight into overcoming adversity. The book also explains how corporate leaders turned disengaged teams into high performers, using empathy and values-driven leadership to create positive cultures that boost engagement and success.
This anthology brings together a diverse range of leadership experiences and real-world examples, offering readers actionable insights and tools for fostering innovation, navigating complex challenges and creating thriving business cultures.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637353493
Cutting Through
by Bernie Haffey
This comprehensive guide provides a blueprint for optimizing business operations. It emphasizes the importance of having a robust management system that drives performance from the ground up.
The book introduces the six pillars of a high-performance management system (HPMS), and explains the methodology behind building an effective coalition of in-house ambassadors. It also highlights the significance of the ‘first follower’ and how to define and direct company culture within the framework of a larger HPMS. It explores the power of subtraction, elimination and simplification.
Sharing insights on how leading companies such as Amazon, Ford, IBM, Medtronic and Ritz Carlton implemented their own HPMS, this book is a guide on how to pinpoint the vital few while incorporating the remainder into a unified, cohesive system.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637350232
You Are Not Them: The Authentic Entrepreneur's Way
by Sid Mohasseb
This book approaches entrepreneurship the way a master craftsman would. It promotes an iterative lifestyle rather than a final destination.
In this book, the author explains how to develop a unique entrepreneurial philosophy grounded in core personality components. He outlines why the traditional model of entrepreneurship so often fails. He investigates the dynamics between risk, value creation, execution and mindfulness, and teaches how to leverage the wisdom of great leaders without sacrificing the individuality that allows people to break into uncharted territory.
The outcome for entrepreneurs is improved workflow efficiency that is achieved by developing an awareness of the varying states of entrepreneurship and how each one can be circumstantially levied to the entrepreneur’s advantage; a tailored approach to communication that authentically reflects entrepreneurial values and an understanding of a personal axiom of choices in the context of situational leadership and business development. Fundamentally, everything entrepreneurs need to be successful is already within them. The real question is whether they are paying attention to it.
This is not your ordinary business book. Sid Mohasseb combines his love of poetry, storytelling, history and philosophy. — Az Samad Book ReviewsHonors: seen on CBS
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637350485
Leadership GLUE
by Kae Wagner
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that the bottleneck in a business is often its employees. It points the finger instead at the reflection in the mirror — the leader.
In this insightful publication, the author provides a comprehensive roadmap to discovering and mastering leadership glue. She delves deep into the psychological roadblocks that prevent great leaders from realizing their potential and leverages her extensive experience in leader development, marketing and market research to chart a clear, concise path to success. The book offers valuable insights into the three core components of leadership GLUE and how to integrate them into a business structure. It also introduces the ‘hands on to hands free to hands off’ process for developing business leadership and explains the importance of distinguishing between SOPs and roadmaps for a business, and knowing when to implement each.
The book also guides you on how to prepare a team to handle the daily operations of a business, giving a leader the freedom and flexibility to pursue the next big innovation. It also presents the key questions everyone in a business needs to answer before buying fully into a vision. This book is a call to action for leaders to take a hard look at themselves and make the necessary changes to steer their ships away from the rocks and into clear waters.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352540
Automotive Search Marketing
by Alex Melen
This book contains a detailed account of the latest and greatest in online marketing strategies for car dealers looking to take their digital marketing to the next level.
The author tells what it takes to plan and implement a strategy for search marketing that uses the latest techniques to maximize the return on investment. He provides a detailed description of Google ranking signals to help improve the search engine optimization and jumpstart organic search traffic. He reveals advanced pay-per-click implementations to revamp Google Ads campaigns and increase business immediately.
In this book, the author explains how to select an advertising agency, evaluate performance, and optimize campaigns consistently.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352113
We trust that your readers will enjoy our hand-picked selection.
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Alinka Rutkowska
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