5 books every young businesswoman should read:
Share to facebookI know, I know. You’re an entrepreneur. You don’t have any free time. I know. Trust me. I can relate. But I promise you, you want to make time to read. In every way, reading helps me be a better teammate, a better businesswoman and a better person.
In entrepreneurship, like in any school of thought, there’s a canon of respected literature. It’s all the classics. It’s Simone De Beauvoir for feminism. Adam Smith for economics. It’s a young female writer’s Didion . So without further caveats, here are my five essential reads for my fellow young, female entrepreneurs out there:For starters, I’ll point out the obvious, Rebecca Solnit is an absolute genius. She takes issue with the term mansplaining but essentially she has written the seminal text on the subject. Through this collection of essays, Solnit inspired me to be more secure in my knowledge and more confident in my public expression of that knowledge.
It’s a quirky fable that follows the new CEO of a company as the company is falling into disarray due, mostly, to interpersonal conflicts. So she takes her mess of a team away from the office and walks them through the five dysfunctions of a team. As an entrepreneur, risk is part of the job. So reading Rhimes take on new challenges and risks is inspiring and rewarding. She talks about her career successes and struggles as well as her family and personal life. She talks about the paradox of dreaming vs. doing and she shows you, by her own example, how to work really hard to build yourself.
Perhaps my favorite passage in Drawing Blood is this story of a night with her friend Kim Boekbinder:
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