Recommended Readings
- Masters of Deception
- The Definitive Book of Body Language
- The Red Queen
- Why Men Don’t Have a Clue and Women Always Want More Shoes
- Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
- The Way of the Superior Man
- The Improv Handbook: Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond
- The Power of Now
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Atlas Shrugged (fiction)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (S-tier)
- Impact Equation
- The One Minute Manager
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- The Personal MBA
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
- The Art of Strategy
- Bargaining for Advantage
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RGR Nabisco (S-tier)
- Accounting Made Simple
- Killer Angels (fiction)
- Unbroken
- Predictable Revenue
- Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
- Destiny of the Republic
- Slaughterhouse Five (fiction)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- The Devil in the White City
- The World Without Us
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- The Path Between the Seas: Creation of the Panama Canal
- The Nordstrom Way for Customer Service Excellence
- The Boys in the Boat
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- When Genius Failed
- When I Say No, I Feel Guilty
- Ask: The Counter Intuitive Online Formula
- BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People
- One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
- Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say–And What You Don’t
- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t.
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
- Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
- Clone Yourself: Build a Team that Understands Your Vision, Shares Your Passion, and Runs Your Business for You
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Results
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- The Blank Slate: Modern Denial of Human Nature
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (S-tier)
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon