Books I Love
Over and over again I end up referring these books to people. They are great resources for changing your perspective, building your business, growing your career, and improving your lives
Change Your Questions Change Your Life
Discover how the questions we ask ourselves and others can either expand our mindsets and open us up to exciting new possibilities or constrict our mindsets and limit our choices for successful change. In other words, be a learner, not a judger.
Positive Intelligence
In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause "significant harm" to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to defeating these internal foes.
Radical Candor
If people fRadical Candor by Kim Scott is a business leadership book that offers a framework for giving and receiving feedback. The book argues that the best kind of feedback is both caring and challenging, which the author terms "radical candor." Scott contrasts this with other styles of feedback, such as ruinous empathy (caring without challenging) and obnoxious aggression (challenging without caring). The book offers guidance on how to implement radical candor in the workplace.
Who
It's happened to the best of us. You have a job opening to fill. You interview a range of qualified candidates and hire the best of the bunch - or so you think. You soon realize that the person who seemed like a perfect fit during the interview doesn't have what it takes to do the job.
In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street, outlines how to hire successfully. The result is a simple, four-step method for hiring with confidence.
Unreasonable Hospitality
Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences turning customers into brand ambassadors.
Four Lenses of Innovation
Ever wonder where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss?
Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not some mystical art that’s forbidden to mere mortals. The Four Lenses of Innovation thoroughly debunks this pervasive myth by delivering what we’ve long been hoping for: the news that innovation is systematic, it’s methodical, and we can all achieve it.
Extreme Ownership
A leadership book that emphasizes taking responsibility for everything in your area of influence. The core principle is that a leader must take ownership of success and failures, and avoid blaming external factors. The book outlines battle-tested concepts that can be applied to business, sports, and life in general to achieve high performance.
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton Christensen, along with his co-authors, argues that traditional approaches to innovation are flawed. Focusing on features and market research often leads to products that miss the mark.
Christensen proposes a new framework based on understanding the "jobs" customers are trying to accomplish. By understanding the underlying reasons why customers choose a product, businesses can develop solutions that truly meet their needs. The theory is called "Jobs to be Done"
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the technology actually offers improvements in productivity. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow th
The Pyramid Principle
An oldie but a goodie. If you are trying to improve the executive presence of your presentations, this book provides a great guide for effective and efficient presentation structure.
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
It is an uncommon recommendation, but tips for making marriage work also apply to making business relationships work. Concepts such as recognize that when people complain, they may actually be seeking something more benign. They may speak with frustration, but there is an ask that you can recognize that could improve your working relationship.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. Great for any brainstorming session, workshops, long working sessions, or just when you have a group of people that don't know each other well - or know each other too well.
The Courage To Be Disliked
An easy read about Alfred Adler's philosophy that our past traumas don't define us. That when we use those traumas as an excuse, we are choosing the outcome we desire. So if you regularly find yourself saying things like "I'm this way because,..." this book is a must read for you. It will help you look at these situations differently, perhaps develop the courage to change, and move past the limitations you might be placing on yourself.
Atomic Habits
This book focuses on building good habits and breaking bad ones. It uses the concept of "atomic habits" to explain how small, incremental changes can lead to significant results over time. The book provides practical strategies and actionable advice for creating lasting positive changes in your life.
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