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
When Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes, by Andy Goodman and Cause Communications
Compelling History of Business, Cultures, Politics, Sports, and War:
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, by Niall Ferguson
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL, by Mark Bowden
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, by Wayne CoffeyThe Ethics of Authenticity, by Charles Taylor
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam
Curry: A Tale of Cooks & Conquerors, by Lizzie Collingham
Gandhi & Churchill: The epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age, by Arthur Herman
Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen
Patton: A biography, by Alan Axelrod
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom Holland
Growing Your Spirit:
Disappointed with God and Where is God When it Hurts? both by Phillip Yancey
Healing Yourself and Healing Others
Eat to Live, by Joel Furman, M.D.
Fatland, by Greg Critser
Redefining Health Care, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg
Thryoid for Dummies, 2nd edition, by Alan Rubin, M.D.
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 CoffmanHershey : 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
Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together, by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
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
Making the World A Better Place:
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of LIke-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop
Independents Day: Awakening the American spirit, by Lou Dobbs
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, by Annette Lareau
Value Shift: Why companies must merge social and financial imperatives to achieve superior performance
Who Really Cares: American’s Charity Divide, Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why it Matters, by Arthur Brooks
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
Just for Fun:
The Comic Strips Bloom County; Outland; Opus; and ANYTHING by Berkeley Breathed
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.
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
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.
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 . . . .
The books on your list that I know suggest that the books I don’t know would definitely be worth checking out. So it looks like I can definitely trust your book recommendations. Thanks.