Recommended Reading List
There is so much information available today in books, Web sites, blogs, Newsletters and as I find the best of the best I want to highlight items you should read here. If you find something you think our readers would benefit from reading, please share with us.
What I'm Reading today:
AI is Coming for Your Business: How Smart Owners are using AI to Cut Costs, Win Customers, and Outperform the Competition
AI is not coming “someday.” It’s already inside your competitors’ businesses cutting their costs, speeding up their response times, and quietly pulling customers away.
If you own or run a small or midsize business and you feel:
Buried in email, admin, and follow‑up? Worried you’re “behind” on AI but too busy to figure it out? Frustrated that you work harder every year for the same (or worse) results
If you run a 5–500 person business, this is the shortest path from AI anxiety to a 90‑day action plan that protects cash flow and margins.
AI Is Coming for Your Business is a field manual for owners and leaders who want AI to make their business faster, leaner, and more profitable without turning them into full‑time “tech people.”
Inside, you’ll discover:
Why the next 3–5 years will split businesses into AI Adopters and AI Holdouts
How AI is reshaping small business economics—and why “wait and see” is the riskiest move you can make.
What AI actually is (in plain English)
No jargon, no math. You’ll finally understand what AI can and can’t do for a business like yours, so you can make smart decisions instead of reacting to headlines.
and much more. It's an implementation manual for SMBs.
AI Anarchy Inc., Profiting in a Decentralized World with Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, is an important and timely new book from Patrick Schwerdtfeger, a business futurist who specializes in technology trends. He writes, "Technology represents an existential threat to those who don't embrace it, but unparalleled opportunity for those who do." Schwerdtfeger sees a future with "only providers and customers. No management, no administrators or middle layers at all." It's a fascinating, scary, but exciting glimpse into our financial and societal future.
Leveraging your Financial Intelligence, At the Intersection of Money, Health and Happiness, written by Doug Lnnick, Roy Geer, and Ryan Goulart.
The title is a mouthful and the book is a treasure trove of ideas, strategies and real-life stories to help you understand and change behavior to enhance financial security while improving your physical and emotional well being.
Here are the Must Read books about money that will help you improve your Fiscal Fitness. Commit to reading one of these each month and supercharge your personal financial know how and management.
The Total Money Makeover: A proven plan for Financial Fitness - Dave Ramsey
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom - Tony Robbins
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke - Suze Orman
Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money - Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! - Robert Kiyosaki
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy - Taylor Trade Publishing
