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Recommended Books

The following is a current list of recommended books on entrepreneurship available to BYU students. You may search by title, author, or topic by clicking the "Book Search" link on the menu to the left. These books may be checked out at the Center for Entrepreneurship in 470 TNRB for up to two weeks. Click on the book's title to see a short synopsis. If you can give us a synopsis that we don't have, or don't like one we do have, just e-mail it to cfewebmaster@byu.edu.

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Book Title Author(s) Subject(s)
101 Best Small Businesses for Women
Priscilla Y. Huff
  • Self-employed women
  • Women in business
  • Small Business - Management
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • 12 Steps To Creating Wealth (Packet)
    Transferring your ideas to the marketplace
    John M. Knab
  • Transferring ideas to the marketplace
  • 12 Steps to Creating Wealth by Transferring Your Ideas to the Marketplace
    220 Best Franchises to Buy, The
    Constance Jones
  • Franchises (Retail trade) - United States
  • 252 Ways to Communicate Better, Work Smarter & Get Ahead
    The Best Tips from communication briefings
    Tina Ragland
    50 Powerful Teamwork Tips for Employees
    7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The
    Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    Stephen R. Covey
  • Success - Psychological Aspects
  • Character
  • 8th Habit, The
    From Effectiveness to Greatness
    Stephen R. Covey
  • Self-actualization (Psychology)
  • Success
  • Satisfaction
  • Vocation
  • A Collection of Student Papers on Entrepreneurship
    Small Business Basics, BusM 372 - Fall 2002
    A Collection of Student Papers on Entrepreneurship (Packet)
    Volume 2 - BusM 372
    Students
  • Student Papers
  • A Simplified Business Planning Workbook for Small Businesses
    A Simplified Business Planning Workbook for Small Businesses (Packet)
    Commission For Economic Development
  • Business Planning
  • Adventure Careers
    Your Guide to Exciting Jobs, Uncommon Occupations, and Extraordinary Experiences
    Agenda, The
    What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
    Michael Hammer
  • Organizational Change
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Consumer Satisfaction
  • Competition
  • Art of the Start, The
    The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
    Guy Kawasaki
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Before You Quit Your Job
    Ten Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business
    Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Ben Franklin's 12 Rules of Management
    The Founding Father of American Business Solves Your Toughest Problems
    Blaine McCormick
  • Industrial Management
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 - Quotations
  • Beyond Entrepreneurship
    Turning Your Business Into An Enduring Great Company
    William C. Lazier
    Jim Collins
  • Small Business - Management
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Beyond Reengineering
    How the process-centered organization is changing our work and our lives.
    Michael Hammer
    Building Teams for Your Small Business
    Robert B. Maddux
  • Supervision, Management, and Leadership
  • Building the Awesome Organization
    Six Essential Components that Drive Entrepreneurial Growth
    Katherine Catlin
    Jana Matthews
  • Managing Growth
  • Burn Your Business Plan!
    What Investors Really Want from Entrepreneurs
    David E. Gumpert
  • Success in Business
  • Business Planning - Investment
  • Business of Heart, The
    How Everyday Americans are Changing the World
    Michael J. Glauser
  • Social Responsibility of Business
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Business Owner's Basic Toolkit for Success, The
    Joan Hartley
  • Success in Business
  • Business Plans that Win $$$
    David E. Gumpert
    Stanley R. Rich
  • New Business Enterprises - Finance
  • Business Start-Up Handbook
    Guidelines & Pitfalls
    Peter C. Sundt
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite
    34 Winning Management Strategies from CEOs at Microsoft, Compaq, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and Other Top Companies
    Geoffrey James
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • High Technology Industries - Management
  • Corporate Culture
  • Office Practice - Automation
  • Leadership
  • Caribbean 2006
    Darwin Porter
    Caribbean Ports of Call
    With the best shopping & excursions
    Heidi Sarna
    Cases in Strategic Management
    Sixth Edition
    Charles W. L. Hill
    Gareth R. Jones
  • Strategic Planning - Case Studies
  • Cashflow Quadrant
    Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
    Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Personal Finance
  • Investments
  • Rich People
  • Change Makers, The
    From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries
    Maury Klein
  • Entrepreneurship - United States
  • New Business Enterprises - United States
  • Creative Ability in Business - United States
  • Businesspeople - United States - Biography
  • Industrialists - United States - Biography
  • Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Gates, Bill, 1955-
  • Charlie's Thoughts
    Achieving your dreams through inspirational wisdom from an inventor's heart.
    Charles Butland
  • Achieving Your Dreams
  • Clearing The Hurdles
    Women Building High-Growth Businesses
    Commonsense MBA, The
    The Seven Practices of Enduring Businesses for the Entrepreneur
    Richard M Asrle
    Complete Book of Business Plans
    Joseph Covello
    Brian Hazelgren
    Complete Business Plan Guide with Examples
    Conceptual Selling
    The Revolutionary System for Face-to-Face Selling Used By America's Best Companies
    Robert B. Miller
    Stephen E. Heiman
  • Selling
  • Confronting the Myth of Self-Esteem
    Twelve Keys to Finding Peace
    Ester Rasband
  • Spiritual Life - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Self-esteem - Religious Aspects - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Doctrines
  • Conquer Your Speech Anxiety
    Karen K. Dwyer
  • Speech Control
  • Creating Wealth
    Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth!
    Robert G. Allen
  • Finance, Personal
  • Crossing The Chasm
    Marketing and Selling High-tech Products to Mainstream Customers
    Geoffrey A. Moore
  • Selling
  • High Technology Industries - Marketing
  • Technological Innovations - Marketing
  • Crucial Confrontations
    Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior
    Kerry Patterson
    Joseph Grenny
    Ron McMillan
    Al Switzler
  • Communication
  • Crucial Conversations
    Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
    Kerry Patterson
    Joseph Grenny
    Ron McMillan
    Al Switzler
  • International Communication
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Customers Run Your Company: They Pay the Bills!
    Elizabeth I. Kearney
    Michale J. Bandley
  • Customer Services
  • Dealers of Lightning
    Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
    Michael A. Hiltzik
  • Computer Science - Research - California - Palo Alto - History
  • Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center - History
  • Deciding to Go Public
    Ernst & Young
  • New Business Enterprises - Finance
  • Deseret Morning News 2006 Church Almanac
    Deseret Morning News
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Does Your Bag Have Holes?
    24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom
    Cameron C Taylor
    E Generation, The
    Prepared for the Entrepreneurial Economy
    Marilyn L. Kourilsky
    William B. Walstad
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • E-Myth Revisited, The
    Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
    Michael E. Gerber
  • Small Business - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • Educating Zion
    John W. Welch
    Don E. Norton
  • Education
  • Education for Judgment
    The Artistry of Discussion Leadership
    C. Roland Christensen
    David A. Garvin
    Ann Sweet
  • College Teaching
  • Discussion - Study and Teaching
  • Critical Thinking - Study and Teaching
  • Effective Entrepreneur, The
    And How to Make Bad Guys Finish Last
    Gardner H. Russell
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Creative Ability in Business
  • Effective Sales Management
    Second Edition
    John Strafford
    Colin Grant
  • Sales Management
  • Effective Small Business Management
    Fifth Edition
    Norman M. Scarborough
    Thomas W. Zimmerer
  • Small Business - Management
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Empty Pot, The
    Demi
  • Folklore - China
  • Entrepreneur America
    Lessons from Inside Rob Ryan's High-Tech Start-up Boot Camp
    Rob Ryan
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • High Technology Industries - Management
  • Entrepreneur's Fieldbook, The
    John B. Vinturella
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Entrepreneur's Internet Handbook, The
    Your Legal and Practical Guide to Starting a Business Website
    Hugo Barreca
    Julia K. O'Neill
  • Electronic Commerce - Law and Legislation
  • Business Law
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Entrepreneurial Experience, The
    Confronting Career Dilemmas of the Start-up Executive
    W. Gibb Dyer
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Career Development
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
    Finance for Small Business, Second Edition
    Philip J. Adelman
    Alan M. Marks
  • Small Business - Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Venture, The
    William A. Sahlman
    Howard H. Stevenson
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Entrepreneurism
    Exploring Entrepreneurship from a Business Process Perspective
    Thomas N. Duening
    William W. Sherrill
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born
    Secrets From 200 Successful Entrepreneurs
    Lloyd E. Shefsky
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Entrepreneurship
    Third Edition
    Peggy A. Lambing
    Charles R. Kuehl
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship - A Contemporary Approach
    Fourth Edition
    Richard M. Hodgetts
    Donald F. Kuratko
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Small Business - United States
  • Entrepreneurship - Debriefing Teachable Moments
    Marilyn L. Kourilsky
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • New Business Enterprises - Finance
  • Entrepreneurship - Successfully Launching New Ventures
    Bruce R. Barringer
    R. Duane Ireland
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Enterprises
  • Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review
    Harvard Business Review
  • New Business Enterprises - Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Enviro-Capitalists
    Doing Good While Doing Well
    Terry L. Anderson
    Donald R. Leal
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Protection - Economic Aspects
  • Sustainable Development
  • Capitalism - Environmental Aspects
  • Ernst & Young Guide to Taking Your Company Public, The
    Stephen C. Blowers
    Gregory K. Ericksen
    Thomas L. Milan
  • Going Public (Securities)
  • Corporations - Finance
  • Private Companies - Finance
  • Ethics and the Management of Financial Institutions
    Ivan T. Call
    Robert J. Parsons
  • Financial Institutions - Ethics
  • Everyone is a Customer
    Elizabeth I. Kearney
    Michale J. Bandley
  • Customer Services
  • Experienced Entrepreneur, The
    A Masrketing and Business Planning Workbook
    Rick Paul
    Extending the Runway
    Leadership Strategies for venture capitalists and executives of funded companies.
    Dave Berkus
  • Leadership
  • Fail-Proof Enterprise, The
    A Success Model for Entrepreneurs
    Bob Thomas
  • Success in Business
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Strategic Management
  • Family Business Casebook Annual 2007
    Joseph H. Astrachan
    Fast Food Nation
    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    Eric Schlosser
  • Fast Food Restaurants
  • Food Industry and Trade
  • Convenience Foods
  • Financial Essentials for Small Business Success
    Accounting, Planning and Recordkeeping Techniques for a Healthy Bottom Line
    Joseph Tabet
    Jeffrey Slater
  • Small Business - Management
  • Small Business - Finance
  • Small Business - Accounting
  • Financial Intelligence
    A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
    Karen Berman
    Joe Knight
  • Corporations - Finance
  • Financial Statements
  • Cash Management
  • Fired Up!
    The Proven Principles of Successful Entrepreneurs
    Michael Gill
    Sheila Paterson
  • Entrepreneurship
  • First Things First
    Stephen R. Covey
    A. Roger Merrill
    Rebecca R. Merrill
  • Conduct of Life
  • Time Management
  • First, Break All the Rules
    What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
    Marcus Buckingham
    Curt Coffman
  • Executive Ability
  • Management
  • Executives - Attitudes
  • Employees - Attitudes
  • First-Time Supervisor's Survival Guide, The
    George Fuller
  • Supervision of Employees
  • Fish!
    A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
    Stephen C. Lundin
    Harry Paul
    John Christensen
  • Customer Services
  • Employee Motivation
  • Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The
    A Leadership Fable
    Patrick Lencioni
  • Teams in the Workplace
  • Flying J Story, The
    From Cut-Rate Stations to the Leader in Interstate Travel Plazas
    Howard M. Carlisle
  • Call, Jay, 1940-
  • Flying J, Inc. - History
  • Petroleum Industry and Trade - West (U.S.) - History
  • Four Laws of Debt Free Prosperity, The
    Blaine Harris
    Charles Coonradt
  • Personal Finance
  • Debt
  • Free-Market Innovation Machine, The
    Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
    William J. Baumol
  • Capitalism
  • Economic Development
  • Technological Innovations - Economic Aspects
  • From Start-up to Success
    A handbook for protecting your intellectual property
    Further Up the Organization
    How to Stop Management from Stifling People and Strangling Productivity
    Robert Townsend
  • Management
  • Organization
  • Game of Work, The
    How to Enjoy Work As Much As Play
    Charles Coonradt
  • Employee Motivation
  • Motivation (Psychology)
  • Work - Psychological Aspects
  • Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got
    21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
    Jay Abraham
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • Creative Ability in Business
  • Getting to Yes
    Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
    Roger Fisher
    William Ury
  • Negotiation
  • Glorious Accidents
    How Everyday Americans Create Thriving Companies
    Michael J. Glauser
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in Business
  • New Business Enterprises - United States
  • Businessmen - United States - Interviews
  • Goal is a Dream With a Deadline, A
    Extraordinary Wisdom for Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Other Smart People
    Leo B. Helzel
  • Entrepreneurship - Quotations, Maxims, etc.
  • Industrial Management - Quotations, Maxims, etc.
  • Business - Quotations, Maxims, etc.
  • Success in Business - Quotations, Maxims, etc.
  • Goal, The
    A Process of Ongoing Improvement
    Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    Jeff Cox
  • Manufacturing Industries - Fiction
  • Business - Fiction
  • Progress - Fiction
  • Good to Great
    Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Other's Don't
    Jim Collins
  • Organizational Change
  • Leadership
  • Strategic Planning
  • Technological Innovations - Management
  • Greatest Salesman in the World, The
    Og Mandino
  • Jesus Christ - Nativity - Fiction
  • Green Eggs and Ham
    Dr. Seuss
  • Stories in Rhyme
  • Growing and Managing a Small Business
    An Entrepreneurial Perspective
    Growth Company Starter Kit
    How To For Business Plans, Financing, and Operations
    Growth Company Starter Kit (Packet)
    "How To" For: Business Plans, Financing and Operations
    Coopers & Lybrand
    Guerrilla Advertising
    Cost-Effective Tactics for Small-Business Success
    Jay Conrad Levinson
  • Small Business - Management
  • Advertising - Cost Effectiveness
  • Guerrilla Financing
    Alternative Techniques to Finance Any Small Business
    Jay Conrad Levinson
    Bruce Blechman
  • Small Business - Finance
  • Guerrilla Marketing Online
    The Entrepreneur's Guide to Earning Profits on the Internet
    Jay Conrad Levinson
    Charles Rubin
  • Marketing - Data Processing
  • Internet Advertising
  • Guerrilla Selling
    Unconventional Weapons & Tactics for Increasing Your Sales
    Jay Conrad Levinson
    Bill Gallagher
    Orvel Ray Wilson
  • Selling
  • Guide to Becoming Rich
    Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards
    Guide to Rapid Revision Workbook
    Daniel D. Pearlman
    Faun Bearnbach Evans
    Raymond H. Clines
  • Business Writing
  • Gung Ho!
    Turn On the People in Any Organization
    Ken Blanchard
    Sheldon Bowles
  • Employee Motivation
  • Hiring the Best
    How to Staff Your Department Right the First Time
    Martin Yate
  • Employment Interviewing