Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Health
Made to Stick is a crash course on how to make sure that your ideas are understood and remembered by other people.
How to Win Friends and Influence People Book Summary
Learn Dale Carnegie's 30 principles that will help you succeed, build better relationships, and thrive in business.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
In this time-tested book, Dale Carnegie shows us how to conquer worry and anxiety through stories that reveal helpful lessons and frameworks.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Taleb
In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb explores the important idea of how randomness influences our world more than we think.
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
Professional poker player Annie Duke explores how we can all become better decision-makers in an uncertain and challenging world. She helps us understand how to disentangle the role of luck and skill in determining outcomes, ultimately helping us make better bets that lead to better outcomes and a better life.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Wharton professor Adam Grant discusses the value of rethinking in our personal lives, interpersonal interactions, and collective actions.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Inspired by Simon Sinek’s wildly popular Ted Talk, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Start With Why teaches us how great organizations communicate, lead, and acquire loyal customers. Sinek argues that great leaders and organizations focus on WHY they do what they do, instead of WHAT they do and HOW they do it.
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity By Kim Scott
Radical Candor is a crash course on how to be a great manager. In it, former Google leader Kim Scott shares her philosophy about how to be an empathetic and results-oriented leader. If you’re new to management, you’ll find a wealth of useful tidbits that will help you avoid common mistakes.
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
This is the life story of former Disney CEO, Bob Iger. Iger led a fascinating career in which he ascended from the lower ranks of organizations to being the leader of one of the world’s largest, most respected organizations. It’s full of fascinating stories, triumphs, and leadership lessons.
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
In Measure What Matters, venture capitalist John Doerr introduces you to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a powerful goal-setting framework for organizations. This system has been used by countless successful companies to direct efforts and grow over the long-term.