15 Great Books on Leadership, Creativity, Productivity, and Personal Growth.
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The Slight Edge
A way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else.
Leaders Eat Last
Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort — even their own survival — for the good of those in their care. Leaders who are willing to eat last are rewarded with deeply loyal colleagues who will stop at nothing to advance their leader’s vision and their organization’s interests.
The Flinch
A book that will push you, scare you and possibly stick with you for years to come. The idea is simple: your flinch mechanism can save your life. It allows you to pull back and avoid danger. But what if facing the flinch is the one best way to get what you want? What are you afraid of? Here’s how to find out.
Wooden On Leadership
John Wooden’s goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. This book explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this goal.
Brain Rules
A molecular biologist shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule — what scientists know for sure about how our brains work — and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Extreme Ownership
Detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic and how to implement them in any leadership environment.
Rumsfeld’s Rules
Donald Rumsfeld has collected hundreds of pithy, compelling, and often humorous observations about leadership, business, and life. These eminently nonpartisan rules have amused and enlightened presidents, business executives, chiefs of staff, foreign officials, diplomats, and members of Congress.
Decisive
Our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. Based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, the authors of this book introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases.
Rising Strong
Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability — the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome — is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy.
A More Beautiful Question
The most creative, successful people tend to be expert questioners. They’ve mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking — and finding powerful answers. Questioning — deeply, imaginatively, “beautifully” — can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game-changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities.
Originals
This book addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions.
The One Thing
People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships.
Today We Are Rich
This book will show you how to be rich in positivity and gratitude. You’ll learn that confidence comes from within you, from your loved ones, and from your spirituality, allowing you to rise above any of life’s challenges.
Give And Take
Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom.
The Winner’s Brain
Harvard-trained brain experts explore the surprising science behind motivation, focus, and extraordinary achievement — identifying eight essential “win factors” — and why the key to success really is all in your head.
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