My First Business Role Model

First off, I think it is very important to have a role model, someone to look up to, someone to emulate. When I played hockey, I wanted to be like Scott Stevens, when I played Soccer, I wanted to be like the great Gazza, and when I moved into my Business Carreer, I wanted to be like Harvey MacKay.

I've never been very big on the 'I gotta read every new business book' out there, don't get me wrong, I am sure you could take something away from every book, but that's just not what I'm about. When I was 17, (man, that's 19 years ago!), I read two books that literally changed my life. It was the book below, "Swim with the Sharks and Survive" followed by the book below that "Beware of the Naked Man who offers you his Shirt". These books are extremely well written, short, precise chapters (I hate wordy explainations) with examples of how they worked, and with a ton of USABLE knowledge. I won't go any further, I don't want to spoil it for you.

Every year, I pick up these books and give them a read, they are simple ideas that work. I hope by passing these two books as recommended reading they help you out.
Here is Harvey MacKay's website, so you can see for yourself what I mean before you buy the books.

http://www.harveymackay.com/