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Top 30 Business Books for Entrepreneurs

Someone sent us this link tonight. It was a list of the top 30 business books according a website for entrepeneurs called thinkentrepreneurship.com. I started scrolling through the list. #1 was Dale Carnegie’s all time classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People probably the best business, sales and personal wisdom book of all times. So I immediately decided to respect this list maker’s taste and judgement. He didn’t start off with the book BANG! about the AFLAC Duck, for example. A host of other great ones followed–some old and timeless like Think and Grow Rich, best sellers like Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth, and some of the more new age ones by Tim Ferriss and Daniel Pink.

Now here’s the rest of the story. #20 was, you guessed it (I didn’t guess it by the way) The UnStoppables. Always a nice surprise for anyone who’s ever written a book, believe me. The host of the site also has a podcast interview series with some excellent past guests. One of the most notables for me was “The GPS Girl– also the voice of Siri–Karen Jacobsen. She even looked like Siri–blonde, willowy, sweet, patient, loving and kind. I expected her to be wearing two giant hearing aids though because she is clearly hearing impaired–she NEVER understands my voice!!! But you didn’t see those in her publicity shot. He also had the guy who started 1-800-Got-JUNK, Brian Scudamore.

I called the host, Peter Sveen, to thank him. We started talking a little about the book and he asked if we could do a show. Of course, I said. Secretly, I’m hoping we get to include a call-in with Siri. Something tells me she’s a born entrepreneur.

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