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Our Recommended Management Reading List For Contractors

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Management Books (we call it "coaching")

book e-myth.gif (7798 bytes) The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

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Hardcover: 144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 8.57 x 5.73
Publisher: HarperBusiness; ISBN: 0066214688; (February 19, 2002)

 

book e-myth.gif (7798 bytes) The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

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Paperback - 288 pages Updated edition (April 1995)
Publisher: Harperbusiness; ISBN: 0887307280 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 8.00 x 5.32

 

book e-myth.gif (7798 bytes) The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn't Work-And What to Do About It

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Paperback: 229 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 7.98 x 5.27
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HarperBusiness; ISBN: 0887309593; (May 1999)

 

book one minute manager.gif (6034 bytes) The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard And Spencer Johnson

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Paperback - 111 pages (November 1993)
Berkley Pub Group; ISBN: 0425098478 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.31 x 8.30 x 5.42

 

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Paperback Reissue edition (February 1992)
Berkley Pub Group; ISBN: 0425104257 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.27 x 8.22 x 5.34

 

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Paperback - 137 pages Reprint edition (January 1991)
Quill; ISBN: 0688103804 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.42 x 8.29 x 5.50

 

book one min sales person.gif (5425 bytes) The One Minute Sales Person by Spencer Johnson And Larry Wilson

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Mass Market Paperback - 111 pages Reprint edition
Avon; ISBN: 0380701510 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.35 x 6.87 x 4.12

 

book plumbers bus planner.gif (5768 bytes) 1998 Plumber's Business Planner

Full of information for plumbers to use on a daily basis to help operate their business more efficiently. Beginning with a weekly calendar section and accompanied by opposing pages where reprinted reminders and suggestions are provided as prompts for record keeping, maintaining schedules, etc., the annual is loaded with inspection logs, a phone number section, new trends in plumbing, costing procedures, plumbing math business forms, plumbing code changes, and more.

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Hardcover - 480 pages (September 1997)
McGraw Hill Text; ISBN: 0070718342 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.52 x 9.59 x 7.69

 

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by Dan Ramsey

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Paperback - 328 pages (December 1993)
Tab Books; ISBN: 0830644679 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 9.19 x 7.38

 

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Hardcover - 896 pages 2nd edition (August 1997)
Prentice Hall Trade; ISBN: 0135414261 ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.20 x 9.48 x 7.27

 

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Paperback - 464 pages Reprint edition (September 1991)
Prentice Hall Trade; ISBN: 0133740188 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 8.99 x 6.00

 

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Hardcover - 224 pages Revised edition (August 1998)
Galahad Books; ISBN: 1578660300 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 8.57 x 5.75

 

You should also subscribe to INC. magazine at 800-234-0999 (read from cover to cover every month - this is a must!)
If you read all of these books, you can skip business school . . . Although I wouldn't pass up a chance to go! Notice how many books are related to turning a wrench. This reading list is in general order of importance. This also depends on your own strengths and weaknesses.