Here at Xperience, we believe in Growth. A huge part of that growth comes from our love, well, our obsession with books. I have built my schedule around reading one book each week to bring back to the organization and share.
Every year, I put together a list of books that I have read over the previous twelve months and share them here. As I look back, it gives me insight on the growth of our team and allows me to set the new growth plan for the upcoming year. Of course, there are also a few books that I re-read every year…and those are not listed here. These were the new books of 2019. This year I highlighted MY TOP TEN that I believe had a pretty profound effect on my thinking and thus, on our organization. I will be putting together my notes on each of these ten in future blog posts, so please check back or subscribe to our weekly post below.
A list of books does nothing for you unless you first decide what direction you’d like to take your business or yourself…and then build an actual growth plan. I broke our list down into a few categories as well for easier selection.
This year was a lot of continued study on the brain, human behavior and promoting change. A couple of these books caused me to make some pretty major decisions…direction changing decisions…business changing decisions…life changing decisions…More to come on that!
Happy reading!!
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Finite and Infinite Games – James Carse
Infinite Games – Simon Sinek
The Connectors Way – Patrick Galvin
Fanatical Prospecting – Jeb Blount
Building A Story Brand – Donald Miller
Getting Things Done – David Allen
Profit First – Mike Michalowicz
How To Invest in Real Estate with Your IRA & 401K – Hubert Brim
Getting Things Done – David Allen
Max Out Your Life – Ed Mylett
Never Lose A Customer Again – Joey Coleman
Tax Free Wealth – Tom Wheelwright
Thank You For Being Late – Thomas Friedman
Growth & Scaling
The Four – Scott Galloway
Built To Sell – John Warrillow
The Amazon Way – John Rossman
Chop Wood Carry Water – Joshua Metcalf
Do Scale – Les McKeown
Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
Platform Revolution – Geoffrey Parker
Venture Girls – Cristal Glangchai
Traction – Gino Wickman
Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman
Moonshot – Richard Wiseman
Brain Study And Behavioral Change
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Indistractable – Nir Eyal
Anxious – Joseph LeDoux
Changing Habits – Charles Duhigg
The Defining Decade – Meg Jay
Six Questions of Socrates – Christopher Phillips
Self Work
Stillness Is The Key – Ryan Holiday
Trillion Dollar Coach – Eric Schmidt
Wisdom at Work – Chip Conley
The Red Rubber Ball – Kein Carrol
Aspire – Kevin Hall
Girl Stop Apologizing – Rachel Hollis
Living Forward – Michael Hyatt
Paradigms – Joel Barker
Option B – Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Find Your Way – Carly Fiorina
Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
Deep Work – Cal Newport
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Travis Bradberry
Thirst – Scott Harrison
Leadership
Tribal Leadership – Dave Logan
Leadershift – John Maxwell
Art of the Apology – Lauren Bloom
Nine Lies About Work – Marcus Buckingham
Leading with Noble Purpose – Lisa Earle McLeod