Hey Square Readers,
**VOTING IS CLOSED**
Our Square Readers Book Club is halfway through reading Worth Every Penny by Sarah Petty and Erin Verbeck, so jump into some of our discussion threads and let us know your thoughts.
Now we’ll start voting for our next book for May & June 2024. We have 3 books to choose from, and we’d love for you to vote to help us decide!
This month we're choosing between Personal Growth, Business Foundations, and Business Growth books; all recommended by sellers like you!
1. The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
“This book is about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.”
2. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
“Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business. Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.”
3. Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen
“How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Customers don’t buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world’s most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. By understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they’ll pay premium prices to bring into their lives.”
Which of these do you most want to read next?
We’re voting by survey, but feel free to tell us why you’re excited about a particular book in the comments below. And if you have suggestions for other books you’d want to read, drop them in the comments too and we’ll take a look and consider them for the next round.
We’ll announce the winning book on Monday, April 15th, and start reading it in May.
We can’t wait to read with you!
Pesso
