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Reading is my passion. I read about a book a week. Over these years, there are more than a hundred books that have touched me in some special way. These books have played a valuable part in making me a better person - personally or professionally or both.
This lens is my attempt to highlight a few of those books where I have found inspiration. Hope you will enjoy reading them too!
Selected writings on reading :)
These links are from my blog - Life Beyond Code
- #12 Be a reader
- They say all leaders are readers
- #45 Increase your rate of learning
- With so much out there that we need to consume, there is no choice but to increase our rate of learning
- How to read a non-fiction book?
- Some thoughts on how to get the most out of a non-fiction book
- 9 Reasons for Reading Business Books
- If you are a knowledge worker, there are many reasons to read business books. Here are 9 of them.
Books - Leadership
The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition
Got introduced to the book when I attended the Leadership Challenge Workshop with my executive team. Now I feel that I should have read this long back
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Amazon Price: $16.52 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Principle Centered Leadership
When everyone is now focusing back on principles and ethics (think Enron) this is a good time to re-visit this book
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Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
As a team, we read this book, watched the videos based on this book and got really inspired
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Books - Relationships
Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Tim and this book changed the way I networked. I am deeply indebted to Tim and the book for this.
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Amazon Price: $10.40 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
The first and arguably, the best book on Transactional Analysis - a key skill to understand relationships better
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Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Passion Profit Power
Nuggets of gold on all three topics - Passion, Profit and Power
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Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
The master networker shares his secrets. Great companion to Tim's book
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Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Productivity
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
After so many years, still one of the best books on cultivating some winning habits for life!
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Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Soar with Your Strengths
Excellent writing why you should focus on building your strengths rather than fixing all your weaknesses
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Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential
If you are not using mindmapping, you are already working at 80% productivity :(
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Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
If you understand the concepts of flow and apply it, you will get more done in less time
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Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 10/13/2008)
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NLP Business Masterclass: Skills for realising human potential (Financial Times Series)
Lots of books on NLP. But this one is totally focused on business
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Amazon Price: $29.72 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Attitude
Unwinding the Clock: Ten Thoughts on Our Relationship to Time
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Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You
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Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Innovation Paradox : The Success of Failure, the Failure of Success
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Amazon Price: $11.65 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Business Success
Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
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How to Grow When Markets Don't
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Books - Strategy
Leading the Revolution
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Amazon Price: $12.24 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Professional Services
Managing The Professional Service Firm
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Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Professional Service Firm50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Your "Department" into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation! (Reinventing Work)
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Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Startups
Smartups: Lessons from Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur America Boot Camp for Start-Ups
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Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Sales
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play
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Selling to the Old Brain: How New Discoveries In Brain Research Empower You To Influence Any Audience, Anytime
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Books - Marketing
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
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Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Unleashing the Ideavirus
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Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Branding
The Brand You 50 : Or : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
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Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Amazon Price: $14.25 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Communication
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 10/13/2008)
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/13/2008)
Books - Trends
The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
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Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Knowledge Management
If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice
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Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Books - Economics
You don't need to be an expert on economics to enjoy these books
Unlimited Wealth: The Theory and Practice of Economic Alchemy
Published in early 90s but several concepts outlined here are still very relevant
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Levitt is a genius. This is a paradigm-shifting book. Don't miss this one!
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