Recommended Reading
Life is too short to read a bad book. This page includes a brief list of my recommendations sorted by category.
Communication/Persuasion
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
The Non-Designer's Presentation Book by Robin Williams
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto
Diversity & Inclusion
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Entrepreneurship/Innovation
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers
Good to Great by James C. Collins
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank
Talking to Humans by Frank Rimalovski and Giff Constable
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
Goals / Decision Making / Habits
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Switch: How to Change when Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Write it Down Make it Happen by Henriette Klauser
Living
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation)
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Relationships
The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Hard Questions by Susan Piver
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Laura Markham
Teaching
Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain