There are approximately eleven million business books out there.
Some are excellent.
Some could probably have been an email.
So as we launch the reading side of Faebles for Business, we're not starting with a giant list of books every entrepreneur is supposedly required to read.
We're starting with a shelf.
The Faebles for Business Shelf
We've put together a small collection of books we think are genuinely worth your time, covering entrepreneurship, leadership, customer experience, communication, decision-making, time and priorities, sales, and personal growth.
And because a lot of us are fitting our reading into already-full lives, we've built it in two formats.
If you want the book in your hands, you can browse the Faebles for Business shelf on Bookshop.org. If you'd rather listen on the commute, between appointments, or wherever else you can fit it in, we've created a Faebles for Business playlist on Libro.fm.
Read: Browse the Faebles for Business Shelf on Bookshop.org →
Listen: Browse the Faebles for Business Playlist on Libro.fm →
Audiobook availability varies by title.
Those lists will keep growing as we find books worth sharing. But we don't want Faebles for Business to become another place where we throw recommendations at you and move on.
We actually want to talk about them.
Introducing the Faebles for Business Book Club
Each month, we'll choose one book and spend some time with it.
We'll talk about the ideas that stood out, the things we agree with, the things we don't, and what some of those ideas look like when you try to apply them in an actual business or career.
You don't have to read every book. You don't have to agree with every author. And you certainly don't have to treat any of these books like they have all the answers.
Read along. Listen along. Join the conversation. Take what works. Question what doesn't.
Faebles for Business isn't about pretending we have all the answers. It's about continuing to ask better questions.
October's Read: The E-Myth Revisited
We're kicking things off with The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber.
The idea at the center of this one is painfully relevant when you're building something of your own: being good at the work your business does and knowing how to build a business around that work are two very different skills.
You can be an incredible baker and struggle to operate a bakery. A talented photographer can struggle to build a photography business.
And, as it turns out, loving books does not magically teach you inventory management, marketing, bookkeeping, operations, logistics, purchasing, event planning, or any of the other approximately 700 things involved in running a bookstore.
Throughout October, we'll spend some time with Gerber's ideas about working in the business versus working on the business, the Entrepreneur, Manager, and Technician roles, systems, and what it takes to build something that doesn't depend entirely on the owner doing everything.
We'll talk about what resonates, what we question, and what we can actually use.
If you've already read it, come talk about it with us. If you've been meaning to read it, this is your excuse. And if audiobooks are the only reason you finish professional-development books in the first place, you're in good company.
Read The E-Myth Revisited through our Bookshop.org shelf →
Listen through our Libro.fm playlist →
Faebles for Business Book Club
Because growing your business usually starts with growing yourself.