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Because you read Unreasonable Hospitality
The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Daniel Coyle · 2018
Coyle studies elite teams — from Pixar to the Navy SEALs — and finds three skills behind great cultures: building safety, sharing vulnerability and establishing purpose.
Because you read What Could Possibly Go Right? The Essential Journey to Scale an Enduring Culture
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer · 2006
Meyer's first book and the origin of “enlightened hospitality”: put employees first, guests second, and watch the business follow.
Because you read Start with Why
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Simon Sinek · 2014
Sinek's follow-up to Start with Why argues that trust and cooperation come from leaders who create a “circle of safety” for their people.
Because you read Good to Great
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras · 1994
The research prequel to Good to Great: what separates enduring companies is a core ideology preserved while everything else is free to change.
Because you read Glad We Met
Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott · 2017
A simple two-axis model — care personally, challenge directly — for giving feedback that actually helps people grow.
Because you read Zero To One
Ben Horowitz · 2014
A candid, unglamorous playbook for leading a company through crisis, layoffs and the moments no management book prepares you for.
Because you read Thinking in Bets
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
The Nobel laureate's tour of the two systems that drive how we think — and the predictable biases that trip up our judgement.
Because you read Positioning
Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Donald Miller · 2017
A seven-part story framework that casts the customer as the hero and your brand as the guide — a practical companion to positioning thinking.
Because you read Situated
The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth · 2016
Duckworth's landmark case that sustained passion and persistence predict achievement better than talent does.
Because you read The Art of Learning
The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 2006
The difference between a fixed and a growth mindset — and how the way we see ability shapes how we learn, lead and recover from failure.
Because you read The Way of Excellence
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein · 2019
Epstein challenges the cult of early specialisation, showing how breadth, late starts and experimentation often win in messy, real-world domains.
Because you read Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman · 2021
An anti-productivity book: accepting our limits — roughly four thousand weeks of life — is the key to spending time on what matters.
Because you read Digital Minimalism
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport · 2016
Newport's argument that the ability to focus without distraction is becoming rare — and therefore one of the most valuable skills you can build.
Because you read The Surrender Experiment
The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer · 2007
Singer's earlier, more contemplative book on observing your thoughts, releasing inner resistance and living from a place of openness.
Because you read The Let Them Theory
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle · 1997
Tolle's modern spiritual classic on stepping out of compulsive thinking and finding peace in present-moment awareness.
Because you read The Body Keeps the Score
Viktor E. Frankl · 1946
A psychiatrist's account of surviving Auschwitz and the therapy it inspired: we can endure almost anything if we find meaning in it.
Because you read The Art of Gathering
Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Chip Heath & Dan Heath · 2017
The Heath brothers explain why some moments stay with us for life, and how to design moments of elevation, insight, pride and connection on purpose.
Because you read Consciouspreneur
Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
John Mackey & Raj Sisodia · 2013
The Whole Foods co-founder and a business professor argue that companies thrive when they serve a higher purpose and every stakeholder, not just shareholders.
Because you read Thinking in Systems
The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge · 1990
Senge's classic on building organisations that keep learning, with systems thinking as the discipline that ties personal mastery, shared vision and team learning together.
Because you read Capitec
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · 2016
Phil Knight's candid memoir of building Nike from a car boot business into a global brand, close calls, cash crises and all.
Because you read The Art of Possibility
Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert · 2015
Gilbert's warm, practical case for living a creative life: making things out of curiosity, and refusing to let fear make the decisions.
Because you read Becoming a Category of One
Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin · 2003
Godin's short, punchy argument that safe is risky: in a crowded market, only products and services worth talking about get noticed.
Because you read Oversubscribed
You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
Seth Godin · 2018
Godin's modern marketing manifesto: find the smallest viable audience, serve them with empathy and tell a story that changes how they see themselves.
Because you read Supercommunicators
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler · 2002
A practical toolkit for the conversations where opinions differ, emotions run high and the stakes matter — and how to keep dialogue open when they do.
Because you read $100M Offers
The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · 1984
Cialdini's classic on the principles that make people say yes — reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity and unity.
Because you read Design Love In
A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall · 2019
Buckingham and Goodall take apart nine widely held beliefs about work — from cascading goals to 360 feedback — and replace them with what the research shows.
Because you read An Everyone Culture
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey · 2009
Kegan and Lahey's method for uncovering the hidden commitments that keep people and teams stuck, even when they genuinely want to change.
Because you read Atomic Habits + The Atomic Habits Workbook
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · 2012
Duhigg explains the cue–routine–reward habit loop and shows how habits shape individuals, companies and whole communities.
Because you read The Brand Book
What Marketers Don't Know
Byron Sharp · 2010
Sharp uses decades of buying data to challenge marketing myths, showing that brands grow by reaching more buyers and being easy to notice and buy.
Because you read Good Strategy Bad Strategy
How Strategy Really Works
A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin · 2013
The former P&G CEO and his strategy adviser reduce strategy to five linked choices, from where to play to how to win, with real P&G examples.
Because you read Dare To Lead
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown · 2012
Brown's research on shame and vulnerability, and why showing up and being seen is the source of courage, connection and creativity.
