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Rivers Insurance Business Book Recommendations

Here at Rivers Insurance we encourage our staff to learn new skills and stay on top of the latest developments in our industry. We think that continued learning is important for all business owners and that is why we want to share some of our favourite business books with you.

Here are a few to get you started:

START WITH WHY

Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering, and successful than others? In business, it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it. Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way – they all started with why.

Simon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to ask the more important question – Why? Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how anyone can learn how to do it.

ELON MUSK

This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson will show you how to- Anticipate change; adapt to change quickly; enjoy change; be ready to change quickly again and again.

He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002

Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past 12 months he has been shadowed by tech reporter Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.

WINGING IT

CEO and entrepreneur Emma Isaacs forgot to draw up her life plan, and she doesn’t have a list of five-year goals. She doesn’t believe in work/life balance – after all, she has five children and heads up Business Chicks, Australia’s largest community for women.

Emma wants to show us that you can’t plan every detail and wait for the confidence to kick in before you begin; instead, take action now, do what feels right and figure the rest out as you go along. In other words, you’ve got to learn how to ‘wing it’ rather than wait.

Drawing on her own life and the stories of the many men and women she has met and interviewed – from Sir Richard Branson to Bill Gates this is an easy to read, practical business book.

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE

‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.

Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life – whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want – the organisation you work in, on the family or community you live in. 

This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson will show you how to- Anticipate change; adapt to change quickly; enjoy change; be ready to change quickly again and again.

There are a lot of great books we recommend you read to drive business, learn new skills or be inspired. We will be sharing these regularly with you moving forward.

If you have any that you love, then please let us know.

Happy reading!