Books and reading are important and central to my work in building myself and others. I only recommend what I have read and in the pandemic I picked up quite a few books whether it be by Audible, Kindle, or physical copy (I usually have 3-5 books going at a time). Important books get shipped, sent by link, or handed directly to someone straight from my bookshelf. Jim Rohn said that “Success leaves clues.” John Maxwell said, “Readers are Leaders.” Others have said that instead of having the knowledge of one lifetime, you can garner the knowledge of a thousand lives through books.
Here are the books that I can recommend to you that I read in the past 12 months. Most of them were recommended to me and now I recommend them to other leaders.
- The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Misha Talavera
- 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Machiavelli for Women by Stacy Vannick Smith
- Levels of Energy by Frederick Dodson
- Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
- The Weekly Coaching Conversation by Brian Souza
- The Trillion Dollar Coach by Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg
- Humankind by Rutger Bregman
- Daily Stoic Journal by Ryan Holiday
- How to Measure Your Life by Clayton Christianson
- Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harare
- Culture Map by Erin Meyer
- The Art of Community by Charles H. Vogel
- People Powered by Jono Bacon
- Range by David Epstein
- Say What You Mean by Oren J Sofer
- Trailblazer by Marc Benioff and Monica Langley
- Customer Success by Dan Steinman, Lincoln Murphy, and Nick Mehta
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- How to Not be Wrong with Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
- The Laws of Success by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Golden Book by Dale Carnegie
- Relentless by Tim Grover
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- The Startup Community Way by Brad Feld
- The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
- Living with a Seal by Jesse Itzler
- Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
- Turn the Ship Around by L David Marquet
- Die with Zero by Bill Perkins
- New Localism by Bruce Katz
- Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver