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1 | Title - Titles in BOLD are the books are the "must-reads" for managers | Topic | Author | Why we recommend reading it | Publisher | Number of Pages | Year Published | ||||||||||||||
2 | Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike | Biographies | Phil Knight | Scribner | 400 | 2016 | |||||||||||||||
3 | Greenlights | Biographies | Matthew McConaughey | Crown Publishing Group (NY) | 308 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||
4 | Choosing to Cheat: Who Wins When Family and Work Collide | Culture | Andy Stanley | What’s more important, the deadline, your son’s soccer game, date night, the budget meeting, the bonus, the client, or the vacation? How do you choose? This is daring book about priorities. It’s short and effective. | Multnomah Books | 142 | 2002 | ||||||||||||||
5 | Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard | Culture | Chip & Dan Heath | As leaders we’re motivated to change people’s minds, the environment around us, the circumstances we find ourselves in. What if you could make that path to change easier - for everyone involved? This book turns the light on. | Currency | 320 | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
6 | The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win | Culture | Jocko Willink & Leif Babin | St. Martin's Press | 320 | ||||||||||||||||
7 | The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) | Culture | Seth Godin | Portfolio | 80 | 2007 | |||||||||||||||
8 | Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team | Culture | Simon Sinek | Portfolio | 256 | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
9 | Leaders Eat Last | Culture | Simon Sinek | Building a strong organization requires trust. It’s the leaders job to make that happen. It’s not easy, but if you do you’ll have a team that risks doing hard work every day chasing after your vision. There’s science and stories in this book that point the way. | Portfolio | 350 | 2013 | ||||||||||||||
10 | Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success | Culture | Gary Vaynerchuk | Harper Business | 202 | ||||||||||||||||
11 | A Little Book on the Human Shadow | Culture | Robert Bly | Harper | 96 | 1988 | |||||||||||||||
12 | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Culture | Jordan B. Peterson | Random House Canada | 409 | 2018 | |||||||||||||||
13 | Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Culture | Jocko Willink & Leif Babin | Learning to take ownership when problems pop up builds respect among your team. When you do it, they'll do it, and thats when the magic happens! The team learns and the business moves forward. The lessons in this book stop the blame game. | St. Martin's Press | 320 | 2015 | ||||||||||||||
14 | Courageous Leadership | Culture | Bill Hybels | Learn the 3C's of hiring someone and the three C's of how to keep someone. Is the most reference and pivotable concept and our business | Zondervan Publishing Company | 256 | 2002 | ||||||||||||||
15 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change | Culture | Stephen R. Covey | Free Press | 372 | 1988 | |||||||||||||||
16 | Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Culture, Operations | Orson Scott Card | Tor | 324 | 1985 | |||||||||||||||
17 | Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Culture, Operations | Tony Hsieh | Grand Central Publishing | 246 | 2010 | |||||||||||||||
18 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't | Culture, Operations | James C. Collins | Harper Business | 300 | 2001 | |||||||||||||||
19 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Culture, Operations | Malcolm Gladwell | Time Warner Book Group | 301 | 2000 | |||||||||||||||
20 | The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) | Culture, Operations | Mario Puzo | NAL | 448 | 1969 | |||||||||||||||
21 | The best yes | Culture, Operations | Lysa Terkuerst | As a manager, you're going to get worn down. You're going to feel like you need to say yes to everything, but this book will teach you how sometimes the best yes is the word no. | Nelson Books | 272 | 2014 | ||||||||||||||
22 | Home Service Millionaire | Culture, Operations | Tommy Mello | This is such an exciting book to read by Tommy mellow, he's a wonderful guy, that has built the largest garage door company in the country. All of his friends are heating and air conditioning contractors. He went to other industries and learned from them all, and his best practices are in this book, it will also teach you how to think outside the box | Home Service Expert | 188 | 2018 | ||||||||||||||
23 | Radical candor ted talk | Culture, Operations | Kim Scott | Radical candor is a book, but I would be lying if I said it was a good book. There is a 30 to 45 minute Ted talk on the book radical candor, and if you love the concept, you can read the book but the book is basically the Ted talk plus a ton of examples. The big take away is you will learn how you lead people but you need to learn how to lead people by challenging them directly and caring personally, and it goes through different quadrants and may reveal some of your ongoing tensions you may face as a manager | St Martins Press | 272 | 2017 | ||||||||||||||
24 | Boundaries for leaders | Culture, Operations | Henery Cloud | As an owner, I almost started crying in the first chapter of this book. It talks about an owner named Chris that wants to have a great company and does everything for everyone, but somehow his culture is not a 10 out of 10. One employee has power over all the rest, no matter how much you try to motivate the team, there's always someone who takes your motivation as intimidation. This book will teach you how to set good boundaries that have a great culture, and keep you accountable to be a better boss | Harper Business | 272 | 2013 | ||||||||||||||
25 | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? | Operations | Seth Godin | Does your leadership encourage out of the box inovation or robotic conformity from your team? As leaders sometime we say we want inovators working in our teams but our managment style doesn't allow for it. | Portfolio | 244 | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
26 | EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches | Operations | Dave Ramsey | It’s a funny name but it’s a great book that gives you a chance to learn from another man’s successes and failures from a business idea all the way up to a massive influential company. It’s a playbook on how to grow a strong company. | Howard Books | 306 | 2011 | ||||||||||||||
27 | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It | Operations | Michael E. Gerber | Teaches you the freedom of how to move from working IN the business every day to working ON it. | Harper Business | 269 | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
28 | The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right | Operations | Atul Gawande | Metropolitan Books | 208 | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
29 | Delegation & Supervision (The Brian Tracy Success Library) | Operations | Brian Tracy | A short book on how to empower people. | AMACOM | 112 | 2013 | ||||||||||||||
30 | Deep & Wide | Operations | Andy Stanley | This book talks about church leadership a lot, but it can be translated into what we do. The purpose of reading this book is to generate focus. Someone is Asians try to go deep, other organizations go wide in their approach. This book will teach you how to do both in a healthy manner | Zondervan on Brilliance | 400 | 2016 | ||||||||||||||
31 | Retire Inspired: It's Not an Age, It's a Financial Number | Accounting/Finance | Chris Hogan | Ramsey Press | 256 | 2016 | |||||||||||||||
32 | The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich | Accounting/Finance | David Bach | Currency | 288 | 2003 | |||||||||||||||
33 | I Will Teach You to Be Rich | Accounting/Finance | Ramit Sethi | This book teaches budgeting and how to automate as much as you can. | Workman Publishing Company | 266 | 2009 | ||||||||||||||
34 | Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream | Accounting/Finance | Scott Trench | BiggerPockets Publishing | 236 | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
35 | The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness | Accounting/Finance | Dave Ramsey | Nelson Books | 229 | 1994 | |||||||||||||||
36 | Nehimiah | Leadership | Nehimiah | He rebuilt a city wall in 52 days but he did so much more...Nehimiah shows us that to influence change we first need to feel a bourdon, then rally others to a tangable goal that emotionaly connects to those we're leading. | 4th centry BC | ||||||||||||||||
37 | Next Generation Leader | Leadership | Andy Stanley | This is a great book on leadership, learn how to cast vision, and be the leader that this organization need you to be | Multnomah Books | 176 | 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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