My Top 5 Business Books

  • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitability

  • The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability

  • How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

  • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

Further Reading

1: Introduction

  • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

  • The Renaissance Soul: How to Make Your Passions Your Life

  • The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

  • Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

  • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

  • The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times

  • The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

2: Business Foundation

  • The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitability

  • The Big Book of Small Business: You Don't Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants

  • Business and Legal Forms for Interior Designers

3: Building Your Brand

  • How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

  • StrengthsFinder 2.0

  • The It Factor: Be the One People Like, Listen to, and Remember

  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

4: Clients

  • Interior Design Clients: The Designer's Guide to Building and Keeping a Great Clientele

  • Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

5: Selling Your Services

  • Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

  • Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

6: Running Your Business

  • Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility

  • The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability

  • The Success Principles(TM) - How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

  • The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

  • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

  • The Motivation Manifesto

  • Leadership Mastery: How to Challenge Yourself and Others to Greatness

  • The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul