Some stuff I recommend. Comments welcome.
Michael Gerber - The E-myth Revisited
The bible of business. Any small business owner / potential owner MUST read this book, it should be compulsory by law!
Tony Buzan - How to Mind Map
An inspirational, teeny weeny, easy peasy, little book by Tony Buzan which will literally change your life. Mind mapping is a totally revolutionary and yet completely natural and simple way to commit your consciousness to paper.
Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad, Poor Dad
A great book on the difference between the rich and the poor. If you want to make money, read this book.
George S. Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon
A great book explaining very simply, in story form, the key to accumulating wealth. It’s very simple. Simple, not easy!
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
An inspirational book about how ideas and trends spread like viruses, and a detailed analysis of that process.
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
A second inspirational work form Malcolm Gladwell about the power of rapid cognition, otherwise known as your gut instinct.
hi, i loved the mindmapping stuff - there is a fair amount of serious research about it as well as several groups doing a fair amount of development. Some have been using touchgraph technology for mapping eg ceryle - i have a copy of the beta since it has been abandoned (guy was writing his thesis and gave up - life bit him hard)
Also there are a number of programs out there to help with creating the maps. eg Axon (commerial - i like but well beyond my means), freemind (freeware but somewhat limited), CMAP Tools (free - this is the one i like best)
Inkscape: a painting/drawing program that can do something similar.
A number of writing programs include mindmapping.
good luck and have fun
kelly