Loving Your Business: Rethink Your Relationship with Your Company and Make It Work for You

“You must fall in love with your business again, if you want to grow it,” writes leadership coach King in this mostly helpful collection of tricks for burnt-out business owners. Rethinking one’s relationship with one’s business, she posits, requires reevaluating one’s relationship with oneself. The author’s process for doing so involves lots of self-help tasks, among them doing “daily thought downloads” or jotting down one’s thoughts first thing in the morning, writing down what’s creating career-related feelings of discontent (“I’m tired of worrying about money,” or “I can’t count on my employees”), and cutting back on overworking/overmanaging by putting tasks into “three buckets”: “things you don’t like to do and aren’t good at doing,” “things you’re good at but someone else could do,” and “things you’re great at and no one else can do.” While King’s tools are straightforward, there are times when the strategies feel oversimplified and don’t take fully into account external factors: she suggests that the only thing standing between potential and performance, for example, is “thoughts, feelings, and actions.” But on balance, there’s enough actionable advice to justify the price of admission. Business owners feeling near the end of their rope may want to take a look. (Self-published)