https://blog.geoffcorey.com/tags/books/ Recent content in Books on Geoff Corey's Blog Hugo en Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.geoffcorey.com/posts/best-business-books-for-inspiration/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.geoffcorey.com/posts/best-business-books-for-inspiration/ <p>I have written business plans every year for fun and executed a few. These books inspire different aspects of running a company or starting a new one.</p> <h2 id="e-myth-revisited-by-gerber">E-Myth: Revisited by Gerber</h2> <p>First epiphany business book is <a href="https://ia902800.us.archive.org/21/items/TheEMythRevisitedMichaelE.Gerber/The%20E-Myth%20Revisited%20-%20Michael%20E.%20Gerber.pdf">E-Myth: Revisited by Gerber</a>. This book exposes the myth of &ldquo;I started a business so I&rsquo;m an entrepreneur!&rdquo; It follows the pie maker starting a pie shop and making pies.</p> <p>The core insight: they are a technician making pies, not an entrepreneur. By documenting routines for pie production and hiring staff to follow them, they become a manager. Eventually, documenting management routines creates a self-running company based on repeatable processes.</p>