Profit First
A cash-management system built for the way owners actually behave. Simple accounts and disciplined allocation turn profit from a hope into a habit.
Recommended reading
A deliberately short shelf of books I’m comfortable recommending without hesitation.
The bookshelf
This is not a comprehensive reading list. Only books I’m comfortable recommending without hesitation belong here. The shelf spans business, leadership, family, productivity, and fiction, but inclusion remains intentionally selective.
A cash-management system built for the way owners actually behave. Simple accounts and disciplined allocation turn profit from a hope into a habit.
Service meets expectations. Hospitality makes people feel seen. A compelling case for turning thoughtful, human care into a lasting competitive advantage.
Stop trying to serve everyone. Find your best customers, solve their deepest problems, and prune the work that keeps a remarkable business from growing.
Open-book management done right: teach your people how the business works, give them a stake in the outcome, and invite them to help improve it.
Start with what customers value and will pay for—not what your team is excited to build. A rigorous guide to product design, pricing, and profitable growth.
A short, practical guide to handing off real responsibility without surrendering accountability—essential for any owner who has become the bottleneck.
A memorable framework for building trust, welcoming healthy conflict, committing clearly, embracing accountability, and pursuing shared results.
A deceptively simple story about recognizing change, releasing what no longer works, and moving forward before fear makes the decision for you.
Practical lessons from the trenches on leading people, managing money, shaping culture, and building a business with clarity, conviction, and purpose.
Seven questions that help leaders talk less, stay curious, and develop people instead of reflexively rescuing them or handing out advice.
The best leaders do not need to be the smartest person in the room. They create the conditions for everyone else to think, contribute, and grow.
A persuasive case that organizational health—not another clever strategy—is the durable advantage. Clear, practical, and immediately useful.
Meetings are not the problem; bad meetings are. This book offers a simple structure for making them focused, candid, useful, and worth everyone’s time.
A useful language for the work that gives each person energy, the work they can do, and the work that drains them—then designing teams accordingly.
Productivity is not doing more; it is doing more of what matters. A practical system for cutting the noise and protecting your best time and energy.
Lasting change rarely begins with a dramatic overhaul. Clear shows how small choices, repeated faithfully, compound into a different life and business.
Annual goals invite delay. A twelve-week horizon creates urgency, clearer priorities, and a weekly rhythm for turning plans into consistent execution.
A direct, biblical call for fathers to lead their homes with conviction and care—not by outsourcing discipleship, but through ordinary, faithful presence.
A practical, gospel-centered guide to the long work of helping your children know, love, and follow Christ—without pretending there is a formula.
A beautifully told family adventure full of danger, laughter, sacrifice, and hope. The rare series children and parents can genuinely love together.
Gentle, imaginative adventures made for reading aloud. Growly’s stories invite younger children into courage, friendship, home, and the joy of a good quest.
Rabbits with swords, a fallen kingdom, and hope worth fighting for. Stirring family fiction about courage, loyalty, sacrifice, and the mending of the world.
A young hero, a gathering darkness, and light worth seeking. A faith-shaped fantasy adventure about courage, calling, and hope when the way ahead is unclear.
A story of courage, resurrection, and costly love set against a world coming apart. Its final act remains one of fiction’s clearest pictures of sacrifice.
A biblical view of wealth that moves beyond accumulation toward responsibility, generosity, and a legacy that serves your family and God’s kingdom.
A practical, biblical call to honor your father and mother—even when the relationship is difficult—and to recover the healing power of gratitude and tribute.