r/smallbusiness · 2020
Most-mentioned books in r/smallbusiness during 2020
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/smallbusiness within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Michael Gerber's diagnosis: most small business owners don't own a business — they own a job, and they're the worst boss they've ever had.
#2 Good to Great
Jim Collins
Jim Collins studied 1,435 companies to find 11 that leapt from average to elite — the book r/Entrepreneur still recommends even after the methodology got shredded.
#3 Profit First
Mike Michalowicz
Mike Michalowicz proposes you pay yourself first, put the money in a separate account, and build a business on what's left—which turns out to be most of the job.
#4 The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Drucker's 1967 manual on doing the right things rather than doing things right: two Reddit mentions in seven years, both cite it as the serious executive's foundation.
#5 Traction
Gino Wickman
Gino Wickman gives small business owners a six-part operating system — Vision, People, Data, Process, Issues, Traction — and a meeting structure to run it.