Mac, please take this in the spirit intended, and no offense intended, but do you really think the financial books you recommend are relevant to the individual entrepreneur?
I am but a lowly t shirt printer, but I am also an escapee from UPenn and Wall Street, so I have somewhat of a financial background. My business lives almost 100% on sales sales sales. The day that financial budgeting, forecasting, etc. will make a difference is looooooooooong off in the future. That's the sort of thing I would be concentrating on if I were trying to be the CEO of a large, several hundred person company, not an individual business owner with a handful of employees like I am and I'd guess Brian is.
I'd recommend reading books by successful entrepreneurs, particularly those who built their success in sales. Much as I dislike the guy, I see Cary's logic in recommending Trump. I've also read business oriented bios about Bill Gates and a few others, and autobiographies such as
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz.
Again, I am not trying to be argumentative, I am sincerely interested in why you believe financial forecasting skills might prove beneficial to a golf course architect.
In thinking out loud further, the absolute first book I'd recommend is
What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack, followed by
Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay. These books and others like them offer far more to the small business owner, imho.
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I guess my advice might be different if I were specifically looking to prepare Brian for business school type classes. Perhaps that is what you intend. If so, I can't really relate to that, I opted out.