Recommended Books on Leadership

If you own a restaurant or any other business, you'll want to be the best you can be and that's why we recommend these books on leadership to help you. You'll need to understand people, be able to inspire them, be a great coach, improve your results and communication, get better teamwork and improve your bottom line for a successful restaurant. Build your business library a little at a time and refer to these great literary works often to help you when you need a boost. Subscribe or follow by email so you can get all our updates as we continue to add more all the time. These should keep you busy reading for a while:) Cheers!



Leading at a Higher Level - we love this book and refer to it often. You'll find helpful section on attracting customers and keeping them, understanding your competition, finding out your vision, what it takes to reach goals, drawing the best staff and how to keep them, being the best you can be in business and in life and so much more. For new leaders and business owners that want better performing organizations. Highly recommended restaurant ownership reading and we think you'll refer to it over and over again
Author Ken Blanchard Cost less than $16
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - we recommend this book to restaurant owners and managers as it will help you to understand the find balance that is needed between your business and personal relationship. You'll learn how to develop your skills at communication, teamwork,cooperation, creating independent workers, looking at your own life skills and putting it all together for success.
Author Stephen Covey Cost less than $8 and available for kindle!

How to Win Friends and Influence People - change your reactions if you want to change other people is the brilliant yet simple mindset of Mr. Carnegie. if you haven't read it or anything by the infamous Dale Carnegie, this is an author you are surely missing out on! Get it now!
 Author Dale Carnegie less than $14 and a kindle version!

In Search of Excellence - Lessons from America's Best- Run Companies is a classic and the first book of it's kind when written. Millions of people have read, studied and used the principles in this book to become better business people and create better organizations. Follow along as the best of the best (at the time) were interviewed, learn what they all had in common and follow their lead if you want to remain successful as a restauranteur. 
Authors Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Cost less than $10

Winning - by the retired CEO of General Electric who started at the bottom and worked his way to the top shares his honest and straight forward ways to lead, inspire, to dealing with your budget, a bad boss, quality control and much more.
Author Jack and Suzy Welch Cost less than $16 and an audio version we love!

The One Minute Manager - learn how to be an effective manager, owner, leader with these simple and pretty amazing techniques that offer ways to communicate more effectively to get more done, get respected, help your team, build better relationships, be consistent and move on to the next task. You'll want to share The One Minute Manager with your own managers and other key employees.
Authors Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ken Blanchard Cost less than $14
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Who Moved My Cheese - we recommend this book to leaders because sometimes you need a little lighthearted reading and Who Moved My Cheese is a winner! Follow the story of two mice and two humans and the change that happens around them and how they react. Restaurant owners will appreciate these views on change since there will be many and frequent changes that happen in your business. Change is inevitable in life and especially in the restaurant business and how we choose to deal with it makes all the difference.
Author Dr. Spencer Johnson Cost is $14 and available for kindle, CD and Audio