Reading List

These books and articles have taught me a lot about business, people and life.   They are listed in no particular order.  Enjoy.

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown (HarperBusiness)
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath (Crown Business)
• Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, & Halee Fischer-Wright
• Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar
• Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work by Dr. Paul Marciano
• Leading Change by John Kotter
• Buy-In by John Kotter
• The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies by Chet Holmes
• SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
• Delivering Happiness:  A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Soul Singer
• What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
• Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Article from Harvard Business Review “Blue Ocean Strategy” By W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Reprint R0410D; October 2004)
• Article from Harvard Business Review “Building Your Company’s Vision” by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras (Reprint 96501; Sept-Oct 1996)
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Great by Choice by Jim Collins
• Hidden Champions of the 21^st Century by Hermann Simon
• The Inside Advantage by Robert H. Bloom
• DRiVE by Daniel Pink
• To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
• MoneyBall! by Michael Lewis
• Leadership the Hard Way by Dov Frohman, Robert Howard
• Raving Fans  by Ken Blanchard
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• The No Asshole Rule by  Prof. Robert Sutton
• Goldman Sach’s : The Culture of Success by Lisa Endlich
• The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Patrick M. Lencioni
• Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon
• Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life by Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham
• Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise  by Gary Heil, Warren Bennis, Deborah C. Stephens
• How Will You Measure Your Life?  by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
• Innovator’s Dilemma The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
• Turn The Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level by L. David Marquet Captain U.S Navy (Retired)