Loving this new bowl! Please share your favorite business books with me. Topics of interest are personal finance, career, entrepreneurship, and life-work-balance and joy.

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Just read The Making of a Manager - highly recommend.

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Second this ! Awesome read.

Off the top of my head: I Will Teach You To Be Rich, The Psychology of Money, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project

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You’re welcome! The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project are about Agile transformation btw. They are all different topics so they are all my favorite for their respective topics

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Personal favorites are: Thinking Fast and Slow, The Intelligent Investor, Blue Ocean Strategy

These can be pretty content heavy and lengthy to read tho

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