Here is my running list of favorite book
My favorite books! A few books that can help you understand how life, work, and the world work.
The lists starts with some books on behavioral psychology especially as it relates to work and managing people. These is a theme throughout as it is of interest to me and underlines just about everything we do at home and at work.
The theme of organizational culture is next on the list. For me this is the soil to building good governments and companies alike.
Books on leadership, measuring success, management systems, negotiating, personal drive and habits, and the role of chance are next – they support the above themes. These are a pillars that support culture and organization frameworks.
Next come books on a range of topics that I find interesting and instructive. They hold great lessons that are transferrable to any field. Those include history, physics, meditation, Zen Buddhism, and breathing techniques.
I like to think that by reading all these books you will learn just about everything you need to know about life 🙂
This is a running list. I add on to it as I discover gems. Dig in:
The book list
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Principles: Life & Work by Ray Dalio
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by McKinsey & Company, Inc. , Tim Koller , Richard Dobbs , Bill Huyett
- An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Motivational Interviewing by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Data Science by John D. Kelleher, Brendan Tierney
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
- The Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker, Gary L. Convis
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Lee Kuan Yew by Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne, Lee Kuan Yew
- The Box by Marc Levinson
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
- Switch by Dan Heath, Chip Heath
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Rubicon by Tom Holland
- Persian Fire by Tom Holland
- The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence
- River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
- Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
- Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
- Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
- What Is Life by Erwin Schrodinger
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
- The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Breath by James Nestor
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