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As an unproven author negotiating with a publisher, much of the discussion will revolve around how you are going to promote your own book, which isn’t what most new authors expect. Until you’re proven, it’s more accurate to view a publisher as your book’s investor and production assistant rather than as its marketer.
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
Some of my favorites were Good to Great and Built to Last, both by Jim Collins, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish, and a bunch of books by Patrick Lencioni: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Death by Meeting, and Five Dysfunctions of the Team: A Leadership Fable.
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
Raising up others is a successful person’s joy.
John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
