Most kicking-ass books on creating financial prosperity - Stage Orange

[Intraplanetary]

Hello friends, 

Please share the most motivational books on how to play the money game in capitalist stage Orange. 

Success and work ethic oriented books or other resources such as podcasts, blogs. 

Btw, I'm not looking for some tricky deceitful ways to make money and step on anyone's head. I want to work hard and smart and tap into the drive and ambition of the healthy stage orange.

Thanks!  

[BipolarGrowth]

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (effective communication)

 

F.U. Money by Dan Lok (this helped me with building a healthy and lucrative self-identity around wealth) 

 

Nothing Down for the 2000s by Robert G. Allen (this is the book which was the first foundation for starting my real estate investing business) 

[Lincisman]

Cal Newport " Deep work" this is one of the most important ones on how to work and produce value using your mind.

 

Edited May 30, 2021 by Lincisman

[Girzo]

Here you go @Intraplanetary

Allan Dib - The 1-Page Marketing Plan

Cal Newport - Deep Work

Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You

Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations (Stage Yellow book about doing business and management. Opens your eyes to what is possible in that game.)

George Leonard - Mastery (Do not mistake with Robert Greene's scheisse)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Good Business (It's a Yellow book actually, but so what)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow

MJ DeMarco - The Millionaire Fastlane (The amateur sociology part of the book sucks, conflating stage Green with stage Red and calling it all "Sidewalk", while Blue is "Slowlane" and Orange is "Fastlane", otherwise AAA book, the best one on becoming entrepreneur.)

Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline (It's an early Yellow book from the 90., worthwhile read for any business owner, is an intro to systems thinking.)

Ryan Honeyman - The B Corp Handbook (Stage Green book on having a conscious business, not sacrificing your values for money. It includes and improves on stage Orange ideas.)

Seth Godin - Purple Cow

Seth Godin - This is Marketing

Simon Sinek - Start With Why

Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People

Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2

Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Unabridged)

Jack Canfield - The Success Principles

Michael Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited

Michael Porter - Competitive Strategy (Business 101, it's a classic academic book.)

 

[hyruga]

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

The millionaire Fast lane.

Think and Grow Rich.

Crush it.

 

 

 

 

[Intraplanetary]

On 26/05/2021 at 5:34 PM, BipolarGrowth said:

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (effective communication)

advice in this book is a cliche; I think there are better books on communication/interpersonal skills

On 26/05/2021 at 5:34 PM, BipolarGrowth said:

Nothing Down for the 2000s by Robert G. Allen

I'm reading these types of books too, UK based though as I'm looking to invest in London.

On 30/05/2021 at 7:40 PM, Lincisman said:

Cal Newport " Deep work" this is one of the most important ones on how to work and produce value using your mind.

Agree. read this book twice but still struggling to implement it.

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Allan Dib - The 1-Page Marketing Plan

I like this; will be reading it.

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You

this is very popular. worth looking into.

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations (Stage Yellow book about doing business and management. Opens your eyes to what is possible in that game.)

ohh yeah, I totally LOVE this. It aligns with my vision to eventually transcend stage orange and integrate tier 2. 

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Good Business (It's a Yellow book actually, but so what)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow

Checking these out.

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

MJ DeMarco - The Millionaire Fastlane (The amateur sociology part of the book sucks, conflating stage Green with stage Red and calling it all "Sidewalk", while Blue is "Slowlane" and Orange is "Fastlane", otherwise AAA book, the best one on becoming entrepreneur.)

I read this. Btw, I like your comment, very insightful.

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Seth Godin - This is Marketing

super useful.

 

On 30/05/2021 at 8:22 PM, Girzo said:

Michael Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited

I read this. Great book.

 

 

[Intraplanetary]

Some of my recommendation:

At the moment, I am reading Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy. This is really good book. it shows how to step up in the selling game big time.

Consistency Selling: Powerful Sales Results. Every Lead. Every Time. Another one on selling. it really makes to see how consistency is the key in sales and everything else in life that requires commitment.

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. One of the most practical book on productivity. it teaches advanced prioritisation and focus. Tim Ferris's quote is relevant to this book - ''if you don't have time, you don't have priorities''. 

Elastic Habits: How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day. A great approach to adopting habits by doing it every day but changing their intensity to maintain consistency.

UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship. Loved this. Very inspiring.

 

 

 

[Girzo]

1 hour ago, Intraplanetary said:

ohh yeah, I totally LOVE this. It aligns with my vision to eventually transcend stage orange and integrate tier 2. 

If you have liked Laloux's work, then you will also like Corporate Rebels - Joost Minnaar, Pim de Morree. Corporate Rebels is their brand, but also the title of their first book. It tells stories of some great, inspiring, stage Yellow businesses.

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The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. One of the most practical book on productivity. it teaches advanced prioritisation and focus. 

Currently reading it.  The first chapter didn't impress my though. There is some point in reading books, that you reach after reading lots, where it gets hard to find something that will blow you away, haha.

Edited June 1, 2021 by Girzo

[hyruga]

Not true man that stage red are in"sidewalk". There are many thriving in life but their mindset is at stage red.

[Girzo]

@hyruga Sidewalk as described by DeMarco include those who are really ballin' in life. MJ is not that stupid to conflate Red with poor, he acknowledged that some Sidewalkers are well-off. He did conflate socialist ideas with not taking responsibility, though.

He probably didn't read anything about Spiral Dynamics specifically, but thanks to studying Management and actually reading lots of business books, he had to get accustomed with systems thinking and acquired some notions in his thinking that resemble Spiral Dynamics.

[Intraplanetary]

10 hours ago, Girzo said:

Currently reading it.  The first chapter didn't impress my though. There is some point in reading books, that you reach after reading lots, where it gets hard to find something that will blow you away, haha.

I get you. I read quite a few books on habits and productivity but I find TOT approach works very well on goal setting. it integrates yearly, monthly, weekly and daily goals very systematically and interconnects them all. Every action is accounted for and contributes to a goal on every level.

What's the best productivity technique for you that perhaps you implemented to some degree? 

[Girzo]

@Intraplanetary My best productivity technique? I am not a very productive person, maybe I could be if reading 100 books a year counted as being productive, but is not in my opinion, haha.

But if I want to get some project done or implement a new habit I make bets with a friend. We hold each other accountable for a month and if any one of us doesn't meet the agreed earlier quota of daily productivity, they pay $10 for a charity or whatever for every day they miss.

[Intraplanetary]

53 minutes ago, Girzo said:

My best productivity technique? I am not a very productive person, maybe I could be if reading 100 books a year counted as being productive, but is not in my opinion, haha.

 you're a self-help junkie then haha I myself read way more than I should and implement way less than it would be helpful. 

[Girzo]

I read anthropology, sociology, politics, etc. Self-help is boring as hell.  The only self-help books I am interested in nowadays are the ones about emotions, managing social conflicts, non-violent communication, etc., because these are the areas I am lacking in from years of being non-duality nerd.

[Intraplanetary]

3 hours ago, Girzo said:

I read anthropology, sociology, politics, etc. Self-help is boring as hell.  

that explains why you're not productive haha joking! your areas of interest are very interesting

[Yarco]

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet:

The 4 hour workweek by Tim Ferriss

Chris Guillebeau - The $100 Startup was also pretty instrumental to starting my own business

[herghly]

@BipolarGrowth be careful with Dan Lok. The guy is a scammer 

[Girzo]

@Yarco +1 for the $100 startup, although I remeber analogies in this book being shitty. It's not a 10 ouf of a 10 book, more like 6.5/10.