Books We Trust

Communicating Effectively:

Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, by Virginia Tufte

Beautiful Evidence; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; Envisioning Information; and Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, all written by Edward Tufte

The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman

The Superior Person’s Book of Words, by Peter Bowler

Storytelling as Best Practice, by Andy Goodman

When Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes, by Andy Goodman and Cause Communications

Leading and Managing for Excellence:

Competing Values Leadership, by K. S. Cameron, R. E. Quinn, J. DeGraff, A. V. Thakor

First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

Hershey : Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, by Michael D’Antonio

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni

Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization’s Growth Engine, by Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn

Making the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordinary Performance, by Kim S. Cameron and Marc Lavine

Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton

Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams and Why People Follow, by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

What Got You here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, by Marshall Goldsmith


Marketing and Media:

The Influentials, by Keller & Berry

Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman by Yvon Chouinard

Naked conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

Natural Capitalism, by Hawken, Lovins & Lovins

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, by Barry Schwartz

Pour your heart into it: How Starbucks built a company one cup at a time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang

Other Compelling Reads

At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union, by Robert Remini

Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff

5 comments on “Books We Trust

  1. Aneil & Karen:

    You might consider linking your book titles to their Amazon descriptions (or to another book retailer that you trust). While I might find the title and author of interest at the moment, these things tend to slip out of my realm of consciousness rather quickly, and days later I find myself thinking . . . “hmm, there was a book that sounded like that that someone I trust mentioned. Oh well.”

    Your own brief synopses might be of interest as well (you don’t necessarily have to provide a recommendation, if you’re not comfortable doing so). Just a suggestion.

  2. Greg:

    Good idea, and we’re exploring the Amazon link. But wordpress.com is strict about advertising, and we need to make sure we’re staying within its guidelines. Stay tuned.

    Aneil

  3. You might want to search “ethics” on my blog. I’ve been following the ethical trials of the “ethical” drug companies and health care providers for years. I’ve yet to see a good article that explains why smart people do dumb things ethically.

    Very nice site.

  4. Donald:

    You might try “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely for some insight into dishonest behavior by otherwise honest people; this is covered in a chapter or two of the book. Overally, I recommend the book as well for a non-academia treatment of behavioral economics. I’d provide an amazon link, but I’m afraid of what Aneil would do if I did . . . .

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