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There is no one book. What you are looking for is perspectives.
My suggestion, first up: Start with The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
It is a great book for people who are currently employed, and are struggling to understand why business owners think the way they think. Also, it introduces some basic lean thinking concepts (Theory of Constraints) that are very useful regardless of whether you are trying to be an entrepreneur or not. If you plan to hire people, this should be required reading for all of them. Remember, the book was written in the last century, some culture shock is expected.
Next: I would highly recommend reading The Lean Startup. It's a bit dated now, and newer refinements are available, but every other book kind of builds upon this book.
Now you should be able to relate to whether your business idea is sound or not. Next you want to understand, how other people became successful, for this, you need to read Nir Eyal's Hooked. The book is an eye opener for how various online businesses keep making us coming back for more.
Now you are close to building your product, but maybe you need to understand if you are onto something worth selling or not? The Lean Startup will tell you to do a Smokescreen MVP or a Concierge MVP. An even better approach is defined in Sprint. This approach allows you to test business assumptions in a highly structured manner.
After all of this, hopefully, you will someday reach a stage, where you will need to go and pitch your idea to investors. Get Backed teaches you to put together a presentation for investors, and how to handle the presentation.
At the end of all of this, you might be feeling very optimistic about life and stuff, but to keep yourself grounded, read up on Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things. It is one of the most humbling books you could ever read, and once in a lifetime kind of a book that is as profound as the Chicken Soup books.
I'm not an entrepreneur, but I plan on reading:
Ben Horowitz actually just published a book too - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The book is full of stories about all the stuff that went wrong and lessons learned while he built his companies.
edit: Misspelled Horowitz
Congrats & thanks for doing this.
Did you read the hard thing about hard things ? What was the hardest decision you had to make?
Ben Horowitz's book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" addresses lots of these problems and is definitely a great book to read when you are in a leadership position. His comment on firing people is make them understand why they underperformed and refer it to the expectations. Lead the conversation in a way so that they would actually fire themselves. And absolutely do it in a one-on-one meeting. In your case I would build on empathy and discuss everything with him and depart on good terms so he would of course also bring back the company equipment since it's not his (hopefully managed in your contract).