100 Best Recruiting Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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How to Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

5.0

You can go after the job you want—and get it!
You can take the job you have—and improve it!
You can take any situation—and make it work for you!

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach

Recommended by Dave Ramsey, Daymond John, Dustin Moskovitz, and 58 others.

Dave Ramsey

Author

Dave Ramsey recommended this book on his website. [source]

Daymond John

Founder/FUBU

I love all the Dale Carnegie books. [source]

Dustin Moskovitz

Co-founder/Facebook and Asana

Seek to be understood. [source]

2

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz

4.7

Preview Summary

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology compa

Recommended by Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Chen, and 82 others.

Larry Page

Co-Founder/Google

Ben's book is a great read - with uncomfortable truths about entrepreneurship and how to lead to a company. It's also an inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower. [source]

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder/Facebook

Ben's experience and expertise make him one of the most important leaders not just in Silicon Valley but also in the global knowledge economy. For anyone interested in building, growing or leading a great company, this book is an incredibly valuable resource - and a funny and insightful read. [source]

Drew Houston

CEO/Dropbox

One of the great things that the author wrote in this book is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology. [source]

3

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

4.6

Preview Summary

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did you

Recommended by Imani Gandy Corn, Mike Monteiro, and Sarah Parcak.

Imani Gandy Corn

I’m not really kidding. Ijeoma’s book is great for white people—because seriously, get a clue—but it’s also great for Black people who are sick and tired of trying to talk about race with clueless white people and end up frustrated and wanting to stab everything in sight. [source]

Mike Monteiro

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK! https://t.co/x3jxCD3q7g [source]

Sarah Parcak

@PJR23 @IjeomaOluo Amazing book! [source]

4

Who: The A Method for Hiring

Geoff Smart, Randy Street

4.6

Preview Summary

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls "the single biggest problem in business today" unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hir

Recommended by Daniël Lakens and Matthieu David-Experton.

Daniël Lakens

@TheNewStats Thanks. I think saying the correctly used p-value needs an effect size and CI is a perfect example of the Statistician's Fallacy. Your books are great - I learned a lot from Geoff's 2012 book. But the issue is not 'is there good stuff out there' but 'how do we teach it to > [source]

Matthieu David-Experton

Very useful book on recruitment. [source]

5

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Adam Grant

4.6

Preview Summary

Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers.

Recommended by Arianna Huffington, Dan Ariely, David Allen, and 17 others.

Arianna Huffington

Founder/The Huffington Post

“I love this book, which shows that givers get ahead and nice guys don’t finish last. [source]

Simon Sinek

Author

Gotta say, I'm pretty flattered every time asks me if I've read @AdamMGrant book Give and Take. Good guy. Good book [source]

Susan Cain

Author

As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a book—it’s a new and shining worldview. [source]

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6

Rework

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

4.6

Preview Summary

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c

Recommended by Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Tony Hsieh, and 30 others.

Jeff Bezos

Founder/Amazon

Unperturbed by conventional wisdom, the authors start fresh and rewrite the rules of business. Their approach turns out to be as successful as it is counter-intuitive. [source]

Mark Cuban

Entrepreneur / Shark Tank

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read Rework or has an MBA, I'm investing in Rework every time. This is a must read for every entrepreneur. [source]

Tony Hsieh

CEO/Zappos.com

The wisdom in these pages is edgy yet simple, straightforward, and proven. Read this book multiple times to help give you the courage you need to get out there and make something great. [source]

7

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

4.6

Preview Summary

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy.

Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "Littlepeople"—beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you wan

Recommended by Dave Ramsey, Daymond John, Darren Chua, and 5 others.

Dave Ramsey

Author

Dave Ramsey recommended this book on his website. [source]

Daymond John

Founder/FUBU

Daymond John said this is one of his most-recommended books. [source]

Darren Chua

When asked what books he'd recommend to young people interested in the same career path, mentioned Who Moved My Cheese. [source]

8

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

4.6

Preview Summary

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is

Recommended by Cal Newport, Mark Manson, Noah Kagan, and 9 others.

Cal Newport

Author

I recently read an advance copy of James Clear’s new book, Atomic Habits. His thesis is that small but carefully selected habits can, over time, create massively positive results — not just in terms of what you accomplish, but also in terms of the type of person you become. James’s exposition rings true with what’ve I learned hanging around interesting people and high achievers. I recommend you give this book a closer look. [source]

Mark Manson

Founder/MarkManson.net

A lot of people email me asking about habits - how to form good ones, how to break bad ones, how to stop doing the dumb shit we always do. I've got a friend named James Clear. He's an accomplished author and business owner and is kind of a "habit guru." He's probably forgotten more habits research than I've ever brought myself to look at. He just launched his first book. It's called Atomic Habits and it's probably the most practical and complete guide I've ever seen about habit formation and habit change. Do check it out. And then email him and tell him that I have luscious and beautiful hair and he doesn't. Then stick out your tongue and go, "Nyah, nyanya, nyah, nyah." [source]

Noah Kagan

Founder/Sumo

James launched his book today, Atomic Habits. I’ve read it and recommend it. [source]

9

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4.6

Preview Summary

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this posit

Recommended by Austin Kleon, Brian Tracy, Dan Pink, and 1 others.

Austin Kleon

While re-reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s wonderful book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, I came across this passage on working crossword puzzles. I think he could just as well be talking about making blackout poems: "There is much to be said in favor of this popular pastime, which in its best form resembles the ancient riddle contests. It is inexpensive and portable, its challenges can be finely graduated so that both novices and experts can enjoy it, and its solution produces a sense of pleasing order that gives one a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. It provides opportunities to experience a mild state of flow to many people who are stranded in airport lounges, who travel on commuter trains, or who are simply whiling away Sunday mornings." [source]

Tom Chatfield

The notion of flow is the idea that there is a state that is characterised by complete immersion in an activity, by a constant response to stimuli, and a perfect match between your ability and the challenge in front of you. [source]

10

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

Michael E. Gerber

4.5

Preview Summary

E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dis

Recommended by Dave Ramsey, Simon Sinek, Timothy Ferriss, and 17 others.

Dave Ramsey

Author

Dave Ramsey recommended this book on his website. [source]

Timothy Ferriss

Author & Entrepreneur

After reading The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch, I decided that extreme questions were the forcing function I needed. [source]

Brian Scudamore

Founder & CEO/1-800-GOT-JUNK?

The book that’s had the biggest impact on me is The E-Myth by Michael Gerber (I even wrote about it in my own book). I read it front to back, then reread it right away. Gerber takes you through every step of a running a business from start to finish, and shows you what you need to make it successful. I read it when I was looking to take 1-800-GOT-JUNK? to the next level, and I had an epiphany: people don’t fail, systems do. Reading his book got me to take a good, hard look at my business and focus on developing our systems and hiring happy people. His book is one of the reasons we were able to sell out of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchises and scale that success into three other home-service companies, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine under the O2E Brands banner. [source]

11

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

4.5

Preview Summary

The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain a

Recommended by Simon Sinek, Danielle Morrill, Emma Watson, and 10 others.

Simon Sinek

Author

Leaders needn’t be the loudest. Leadership is not about theater. It’s not about dominance. It is about putting the lives of others before any other priority. In Quiet, Cain affirms to a good many of us who are introverts by nature that we needn’t try to be extroverts if we want to lead. Simply being ourselves is more important — and more effective. [source]

Danielle Morrill

Co-founder/Mattermark

Anyway, maybe you’re like me and figuring this out for yourself. It’s a good book for introverts and for those who love them [source]

James Altucher

Founder/StockPickr

Probably half the world is introverts. Maybe more. It’s not an easy life to live. I sometimes have that feeling in a room full of people, “uh-oh. I just shut down. I can’t talk anymore and there’s a lock on my mouth and this crowd threw away the key.” Do you ever get that feeling? Please? I hope you do. Let’s try to lock eyes at the party. “Quiet” shows the reader how to unlock the secret powers that probably half the world needs to unlock. [source]

12

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

4.5

Preview Summary

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research

Recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, Kobe Bryant, Susan Cain, and 12 others.

Malcolm Gladwell

Writer & Journalist

For reasons I cannot explain, David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range. [source]

Kobe Bryant

Basketball Player / LA Lakers

This book looks at how an emphasis on specialization can actually hamper our ability to really excel at something. It aligns with what I try to do when I am coaching, in my stories, and what we’re doing with Mamba Sports Academy — create all-around athletes who can think critically and make assessments in real time to enhance their play rather than rely only on a narrow set of skills. [source]

Susan Cain

Author

It’s a joy to spend hours in the company of a writer as gifted as David Epstein. And the joy is all the greater when that writer shares so much crucial and revelatory information about performance, success, and education. [source]

13

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

4.5

Preview Summary

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.

Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces

Recommended by AnneMarie Schindler, Holger Seim, Jennifer Rock, and 3 others.

AnneMarie Schindler

I suggest these books because they really open up 'how' you think about life and in turn work, success/challenges/setbacks, and in general, yourself. I believe that the more you can understand yourself and broaden your approach to work, the easier it will be to find work that energizes you. Finally, I'm a team player at heart, and love working with others to achieve a huge goal so a portion of these deal with team composition and performance too. [source]

Holger Seim

Lencioni’s books helped me to shift my focus from individual performance to team performance, and what it takes to make a team perform well. It helped me to realize and take seriously the fact that great team performance doesn’t happen magically but needs conscious effort. When I discovered The Five Dysfunctions of a Team for the first time, we had a dysfunctional team at Blinkist and the book opened my eyes to see the problem clearly and showed clear steps for how they should be tackled. Beforehand I was aware that we had a problem, but I couldn’t pinpoint it specifically and hence, couldn’t solve it easily. This book helped a lot. [source]

Jennifer Rock

In Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, the executive asks her senior leaders "Who is your first team?" And they each answer incorrectly that it's the team that reports to him or her. The point is that you need to shift your perspective to understanding your senior leadership peers are your first team. We read that book as a leadership team in a corporation where I worked -- and the environment was very competitive between us. When we agreed that our cross-functional leadership team was our first team, we became more cooperative, innovative and productive. And we vastly boosted our results. [source]

14

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.5

Preview Summary

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They’re just too busy, and it’s too hard to change.

But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less?

In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less ha

Recommended by Armina Sirbu, Brene Brown, Dan Rockwell, and 3 others.

Armina Sirbu

The Coaching Habit by M. Stanier - for people who need to coach their teams. [source]

Brene Brown

Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide and answer, or unleash a solution. giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. [source]

Scott Perry

Michael Bungay-Stanier’s The Coaching Habit was the first book I read when I received the altMBA6 “care package.” It delivers a system for developing worthwhile habits and engagements that I found compelling and effective. I use the seven question system Michael teaches in my work as a guitar teacher, life coach, and musical collaborator. [source]

15

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

L. David Marquet

4.4

Preview Summary

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, he was responsible for more than a hundred sailors, deep in the sea. In this high-stress environment, where there is no margin for er

Recommended by Simon Sinek, Brian Armstrong, Jason Fried, and 2 others.

Simon Sinek

Author

So many leadership books are either theoretical (written by people who study it but don’t do it) or by people who look back and try to explain how they did it. Though both valuable, most leadership books are also very hard to implement as prescribed. That’s what makes Marquet’s book is so remarkable. A submarine commander, he used to obey traditional models of leadership … until they failed him. Unable to change any variables (people, technology or equipment), the only thing left for him to change in order to achieve success was how he acted as a leader. Based on real life events, Marquet presents his ideas in a superbly practical way — perfect for implementing. [source]

Jason Fried

Co-Founder/Basecamp

Turn the Ship Around is my favorite business book. A wonderful look at what leadership is really about. I recommend it highly. [source]

David Heinemeier Hansson

A wonderful book about a naval Admiral that was running one of the worst performing U.S. nuclear submarines and turned it around to be the best performing U.S. submarine by infusing his staff with basically saying they’re not waiting for a command, they’re saying what they intend to do. [source]

16

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

4.4

Preview Summary

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a bo

Recommended by Ev Williams, Mike Shinoda, Marillyn Hewson, and 4 others.

Mike Shinoda

I know most of the guys in the band read this book. [source]

Marillyn Hewson

CEO/Lockheed Martin

CEO Marilyn Hewson recommends this book because it helped her to trust her instincts in business. [source]

Antonio Eram

When asked to name some books that had a big impact on him, Antonio mentioned Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. [source]

17

Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling

Jeb Blount

4.4

Preview Summary

Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your number

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development--prospecting.

The brutal fact is the number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipe and the roo

Recommended by Mike Weinberg, The CEO Library Community (through anonymous form), and Trish Bertuzzi.

The CEO Library Community (through anonymous form)

One of the best 3 books I've read in 2019 [source]

18

The New One Minute Manager

Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

4.4

Preview Summary

For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, fundin

Recommended by Daymond John, Brian Armstrong, and Bill Liao.

Daymond John

Founder/FUBU

Daymond John recommended this book in an interview. [source]

Bill Liao

The human world occurs in language so best get good at it! [source]

19

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

4.4

Preview Summary

Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High is a guide to hone your conversation skills, and prepare you for the most important or trying times of your life and career. The book discusses how talking in the right way can help people achieve what they want. People are often tongue-tied when it comes to interacting with someone, especially when there is a lot of tension in the air.

Recommended by Max Levchin and Deke Bridges.

Max Levchin

Co-founder/PayPal, CEO/Affirm, Investor

A now-venerable guide to having tough conversations in a way that engages the debaters. [source]

Deke Bridges

Picked up this great book @Powells to read. Better conversation and listening enables you to get deeper into subjects at hand. When talking with people, this makes your communication skills a very powerful tool. Always be learning. #growth #education #leadership https://t.co/r0ujX9IPqh [source]

20

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

4.4

Preview Summary

The retired four-star general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model

As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering Amer

Recommended by Doug McMillon, Gene Kim, and Josh Bersin.

Doug McMillon

CEO/Walmart

Here's a list of the top books that taught and inspired me this year. I go back to Sam Walton's book frequently and was struck, this year, by some common principles between Sam and General McChrystal. It seems they learned some similar things about what works when it comes to leading teams. For example, fostering a shared consciousness and empowering execution delivers results. Greg Foran shared The Good Jobs Strategy with me and I see a connection to Tim Brown's Change by Design. We are making progress in designing a "system" for our associates that results in opportunities for them and an even better work environment. [source]

Gene Kim

I love this diagram from the amazing book "Team of Teams" by General Stanley McChrystal! RT @TechBeaconCom: RT @manupaisable: Great visualization of the problems relying on org charts by @j_elmqvist @DOES_EUR #DOES19 https://t.co/XTz8SAWhff [source]

21

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

4.4

Preview Summary

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theatres, dominated opinion pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine, and sparked ferocious deb

Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, and 13 others.

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder/Facebook

For the past five years, I've sat at a desk next to Sheryl and I've learned something from her almost every day. She has a remarkable intelligence that can cut through complex processes and find solutions to the hardest problems. Lean In combines Sheryl's ability to synthesize information with her understanding of how to get the best out of people. The book is smart and honest and funny. Her words will help all readers - especially men - to become better and more effective leaders. [source]

Oprah Winfrey

CEO/O Network

Honest and brave... The new manifesto for women in the workplace. [source]

Richard Branson

Founder/Virgin Group

If you loved Sheryl Sandberg's incredible TED talk on why we have too few women leaders, or simply believe as I do that we need equality in the boardroom, then this book is for you. As Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg has first-hand experience of why having more women in leadership roles is good for business as well as society. Lean In is essential reading for anyone interested in righting the injustice of this inequality. [source]

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The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

Patrick M. Lencioni

4.4

Preview Summary

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player.

In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by re

23

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

Daniel Coyle

4.4

Preview Summary

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you're coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf

Recommended by Peter Attia, Rupert Murdoch, Jason Fried, and 4 others.

Peter Attia

Founder/Attia Medical

One of the books I’ve read the most. [source]

Rupert Murdoch

CEO/News Corporation

Great reading. The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle. Forget genes! Greatness isn't born, it's grown - the hard way. [source]

Jason Fried

Co-Founder/Basecamp

Highly recommend reading The Talent Code. Wonderful book w/ great insights. [source]

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The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

Patrick M. Lencioni

4.3

Preview Summary

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Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Geoff Colvin

4.3

Preview Summary

One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called: "What It Takes to Be Great." Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from you

Recommended by Chelsea Frank.

Chelsea Frank

I read everything with an open mind, often challenging myself by choosing books with an odd perspective or religious/spiritual views. These books do not reflect my personal feelings but are books that helped shape my perspective on life, love, and happiness. [source]

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Jim Collins

4.3

Preview Summary

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterpris

Recommended by Joseph Liu and Mark Moses.

Joseph Liu

I love this book because it provides some practical case studies about the behaviors that allow certain individuals, teams, and companies to excel that you can then apply to your own personal life and career. [source]

Mark Moses

listing the books that had the biggest impact on him [source]

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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Amy C. Edmondson

4.3

Preview Summary

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent--but what

Recommended by Bob Sutton.

Bob Sutton

@davisliumd @AmyCEdmondson Amy's new book is amazing, it weaves together research and practical tips from her decades of research on psychological safety [source]

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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

4.3

Preview Summary

“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.

“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.”
—Inc.

Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In

Recommended by Eric Schmidt, Tony Hsieh, and Graham Duncan.

Tony Hsieh

CEO/Zappos.com

admires the book because it explains the importance of creating a strong company culture. [source]

Graham Duncan

Has looked at thousands of organizations and puts them into categories. [source]

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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Camille Fournier

4.3

Preview Summary

Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech companies in general lack the experience, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. And the handful of books that share tips and tricks of engineering management don t explain how to supervise employees in the face of growth and change.

In this book, author Camille Fournier takes you through

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To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Daniel H. Pink

4.3

Preview Summary

From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.

But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges:

Ye

Recommended by Cat Williams-Treloar, Jeffrey Shaw, and Ola Olusoga.

Cat Williams-Treloar

Daniel Pink "To Sell is Human" - describes selling as a way to move and serve people along the journey. It's packed full of examples, science and experiments in an easily digestible form. [source]

Jeffrey Shaw

I’m asked all the time what books I suggest. These are the best of the best. Links to each book are here https://t.co/pJXWOeZtBu #marketing #entrepreneur https://t.co/1wCkqQw8GX [source]

Ola Olusoga

Like Charlie Munger once said: “I’ve long believed that a certain system - which almost any intelligent person can learn - works way better than the systems most people use to understand the world. What you need is a latticework of mental models in your head. And, with that system, things gradually fit together in a way that enhances cognition. Just as multiple factors shape every system, multiple mental models from a variety of disciplines are necessary to understand that system". You can read this book to start building a "latticework of mental models in your head". [source]

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Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People Withboth Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

Mark Murphy

4.3

Common hiring practices are destined for failure--here's how to hire the right people and build a company culture designed for long-term success

In a recent groundbreaking study, the training firm Leadership IQ found that 46 percent of all new hires fail within their first 18 months. But here's the real shocker: 89 percent fail for attitudinal reasons--not skills.

Most hiring managers are getting

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Technology Made Simple for the Technical Recruiter, Second Edition: A Technical Skills Primer

Obi Ogbanufe

4.3

If you're a technical recruiter who wants to keep your skills up to date in the competitive field of technical resource placement, you need a detailed guidebook to outpace competitors. This technical skills primer focuses on technology fundamentals-from basic programming terms to big data vocabulary, network lingo, operating system jargon, and other crucial skill sets. Topics covered include -samp

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Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose (People Skills for Professionals)

John Whitmore

4.3

Preview Summary

New 5th edition of Coaching for Performance is now available!

This fourth edition explains clearly and in-depth how to unlock people's potential to maximise their performance. It contains the eponymous GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will), now established as the basis for coaching professionals. Clear, concise, hands-on and reader-friendly, this is a coaching guide written in a coaching styl

Recommended by Dan Barker.

Dan Barker

@dohertyjf @iannuttall @jaredmckiernan @jessethanley @DamianThompson fwiw, 'coaching for performance' by john whitmore is perhaps the best book on coaching, whether you're coaching someone else or being coached. [source]

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

4.3

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we tho

Recommended by Ed Stafford and Turia Pitt.

Ed Stafford

An honour to be asked to do an impromptu little talk tonight after #christophermcdougall. Great to see the big man in the flesh in the UK. #BornToRun was a book that definitely changed the path of my life. #legend @vivobarefoot #barefootrunning https://t.co/3QgVKZ0OQ4 [source]

Turia Pitt

If people are interested in running, I give them this book. [source]

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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

Peter H. Diamandis

4.3

Preview Summary

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From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold—a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the expon

Recommended by Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, Michael Dell, and 3 others.

Bill Clinton

Former USA President

Bold is a visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world---and offers invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it. [source]

Eric Schmidt

CEO/Google

Abundance showed us where our world can be in 20 years. BOLD is a roadmap for entrepreneurs to help us get there. [source]

Michael Dell

CEO/Dell Computers

I loved Peter Diamandis’ and Steven Kotler’s book Abundance, their writing and their Vision. BOLD is an amazing sequel, a book that every entrepreneur should read. It is inspiring, filled with incredible insights and offers a practical how-to game plan for going big and impacting the world. [source]

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Claire Hughes Johnson

4.2

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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Laszlo Bock

4.2

From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed.

"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Boc

Recommended by Ken Norton.

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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Robert I. Sutton

4.2

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work.

"What an asshole!"

How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed

Recommended by Jessica Pryce-Jones, Mark Hertling, and Ronn Torossian.

Jessica Pryce-Jones

I love this book, because while work is about trying to make a context in which everybody can thrive, and continuously building up trust, you also have to dismantle distrust. You have to do the two things at the same time, in my view. You walk into any school and if they say, ‘We don’t have any bullies,’ my thought is you’re just not looking hard enough. There’s always going to be distrust, there’s always going to be jerks. And there’s always going to be bullies around at work. So how are you going to deal with them? You have to build happiness and dismantle unhappiness at the same time. The book is written by a Stanford professor, but what I like about it is that he really puts it out there, and hits you on the chin, by calling it The No Asshole rule. And he also lays himself open and gives lots of personal examples, which show how he can be one and the rest of us all have the capacity to be one. He refers to keeping your ‘inner asshole in check’. The book is a very quick read – you can read it in a couple of hours – and it really made me laugh. [source]

Mark Hertling

@Strike_Williams Dealing with toxic leaders is a challenge, each is different w different motivations...they usually fly under their bosses radar. Much longer conversation than we can have here...but check out this great book: “The No Asshole Rule”. [source]

Ronn Torossian

PR is notoriously a hard industry to succeed in. And as an entrepreneur, it’s really hard - and sometimes you have to make decisions that are not always easy but best for the company. A great book — necessary reading for everyone at 5WPR — is the great business book, The No Asshole Rule. The book’s theory, while seemingly obvious, is quite difficult to adhere to for many people – learn to cut your losses. We’ve had to resign clients when they no longer fit our business. It’s an unfortunate reality that you must eliminate aspects of your business that are no longer serving your mission. One can be tough without being an asshole. A key lesson in business, and in life. [source]

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Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact

Liz Wiseman

4.2

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The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Roger Connors

4.2

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Crucial Conversations (Third Edition): Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Joseph Grenny

4.2

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Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business

Jeff Hyman

4.2

Ninety percent of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise. If you’re filling your company’s vacant positions with B-players, you’re playing with fire. Instead, hire Rockstars to build an organization with limitless potential. Recruit Rockstars shows you how to find, hire, and keep the best of the best.

Top-tier executive recruiter Jeff Hyman has hired more than three thousan

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Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Scott

4.2

From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers.

Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she developed a class on optimal management. She has earned growing fame

Recommended by Daniel Pink, Amir Salihefendic, Christopher Lochhead, and 7 others.

Daniel Pink

Author

"Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass boss and a voice that CEOs take seriously. In this remarkable book, she draws on her extensive experience to provide clear and honest guidance on the fundamentals of leading others: how to give (and receive) feedback, how to make smart decisions, how to keep moving forward, and much more. If you manage people―whether it be 1 person or a 1,000--you need RADICAL CANDOR. Now." [source]

Christopher Lochhead

Question: What five books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path & why? Answer: I know this is sounds self-serving but I’d recommended both of my books, the soon to be released, “Niche Down: How to Become Legendary by Being Different” and Harper Collins’ “instant classic,” “Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets” In addition: The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott Back from the Dead, by Bill Walton The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout [source]

Dux Raymond Sy

@magrom I recommend you be radically candid by challenging directly and caring personally - if you haven't, checkout @kimballscott's book #RadicalCandor - tons of great insights https://t.co/TP58vhmi18 [source]

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The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals

Katrina Collier and Shannon Pritchett

4.2

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2020 - HR & Management Category

In a world of work where recruiters are constantly hearing that their role is at risk from AI, robotics and chatbots, it has never been more important to effectively attract and recruit the right people. Leveraging the power of social media and digital sourcing strategies is only part of the solution, and simply posting a job or sen

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Seth Godin

4.1

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller

In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.

Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun...then gets rea

Recommended by Ev Williams, Brian Armstrong, James Altucher, and 3 others.

James Altucher

Founder/StockPickr

In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip. Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart. Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you’ll earn profits, glory, and long-term security. Whether you’re an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win. [source]

Foti Panagio

My favourite business book at the moment is The Dip by Seth Godin because it has some great advice on when to stick with something and when to quit. I’m currently working on a new venture called GrowthMentor.io and The Dip gave me the ammunition I needed to follow my gut and to stick with the project even when I felt like shelving it and moving on to something else. … When I was reading The Dip, I could almost superimpose what Godin was saying directly on top of my own work. Without The Dip, I might have bailed on the project or switched my attention somewhere else. [source]

Michael Herrmann

Very motivating for sticking through hard times. [source]

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Boss Up!: This Ain’t Your Mama’s Business Book

Lindsay Teague Moreno

4.1

Boss Up! will help you put your business on the map and the ideas you’ve previously only dreamed about into the marketplace. It will help you overcome your fears and guilt to find a fulfillment that changes you and your families for the better. And it will help you break free of the hard and boring and allow you to have fun along the way.

In Boss Up! Lindsay helps you gain the confidence to know

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Revolutionary Recruiting: How the Faremouth Method Helps Job Seekers, Recruiters and Businesses Learn to Match People with Their Passions

Mary Ann Faremouth

4.1

How the Faremouth Method Helps Job Seekers, Recruiters and Businesses Learn to Match People with their Passions. Are you tired of the same old recruiting models and methods that simply match a job listing to a resume? Then this is the book you've been waiting for. Revolutionary Recruiting is a handbook for recruiters, employers, and job seekers ready to try a new, innovative method for matching th

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The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People

Kevin Leman and William Pentak

4.1

Written as a heartwarming contemporary parable, this book points you beyond worn-out fads and flavor-of-the-month management techniques to the strategies that will make you a truly outstanding leader.

Find inspiration and a fresh perspective on the art of leadership in this account of a cub reporter who lands the interview of a lifetime and walks away with the keys to exceptional leadership. When t

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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

Robert I. Sutton

4.1

Preview Summary

If you're feeling stressed out, overtaxed, under-appreciated, bullied, or abused because you work with a jerk, learn how to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes—today.

Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan when you find yourself working with a jerk—whether in the office, on the field, in the classroom, or just in life.

Sutton starts w

Recommended by Eric Ries and Nabeel Qadeer.

Eric Ries

Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange

An esteemed Stanford professor offers researched-back advice for managing asshole colleagues and bosses, and how to know recognize when the office asshole might be you. [source]

Nabeel Qadeer

Don't judge a book by its cover. Its a great read - some chapters are extremely well thought out with theories supported by practical instances. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this .. at par, if not better than any autobiography or the likes. Highly recommended! 👍 #RehamKhanBook https://t.co/3HTaIaT9o2 [source]

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The Recruiter’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting, and Engaging the Best Talent

Sharlyn Lauby

4.1

The Recruiter’s Handbook provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidelines through the complete recruiting process. Written by HR Bartender’s Sharlyn Lauby, SHRM-SCP, with insights, tips, and tools from dozens of HR, recruiting, and business experts, the Handbook delivers a proven roadmap to not only help shorten learning curves and avoid legal pitfalls, but build trust in new hire relationships. Al

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The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik

4.1

Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players.

As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven app

Recommended by Anders Ericsson, Bill Simmons, Eno Sarris, and 3 others.

Anders Ericsson

Author, Psychologist

High-speed cameras and radar-tracking devices have revolutionized training and are now giving baseball pitchers accurate, detailed and actionable feedback during practice. This captivating book details step-by-step how merely good major league pitchers have recently been able to transform themselves into great ones and reach previously unattainable levels of mastery by purposeful and deliberate practice. [source]

Bill Simmons

I wish this book spent more time on the Red Sox winning four times as many titles as the Yankees this century, but The MVP Machine is a great and informative deep dive on the challenges of unlocking talent and building winning teams in the age of analytics. [source]

Eno Sarris

@dmoniz611 yeah that was a great book! [source]

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The Athletic Scholarship Playbook: A Complete College Recruiting Roadmap for High School Athletes and Parents

Jon Fugler

4.1

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Talent Fix

Tim Sackett

4.1

Corporate talent acquisition has been failing for decades, but it doesn't have to. There are simple fixes, organizational designs, and technology that can turn around the succ ess of an organization's ability to recruit almost overnight.Piece by piece and step by step, with real-world examples and stories about how innovative organizations and top talent acquisition leaders are successfully recrui

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The Person You Mean to Be: Confronting Bias to Build a Better Workplace and World

Dolly Chugh, Laszlo Bock

4.1

"Favorite Books of 2018" The Greater Good Magazine

Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google

An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that y

Recommended by Katherine Milkman.

Katherine Milkman

The highlight of my week was watching the amazing @DollyChugh discuss her book on holding ourselves to a higher ethical standard (by acknowledging we are biased and have room to grow) on the @TODAYshow! As always, I was so inspired by @DollyChugh’s message and grace. https://t.co/jzjP4ggbt5 [source]

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The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Guy Kawasaki

4.1

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way. It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the once-in-a-lifetime thunderbolt of pure inspiration, the obsession, the world-beater, the killer app, the next big thing. Everyone who wants to make the world a better place becomes possessed by a grand idea.
But what d

Recommended by Ev Williams and Deepak Hariharan.

Deepak Hariharan

Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki was my bible when I started up. If you plan to become an entrepreneur – this is an absolute must-read. [source]

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Get Over Your Damn Self: The No-BS Blueprint to Building A Life-Changing Business

Romi Neustadt

4.1

Romi Neustadt is passionate about helping others build lucrative direct sales and network marketing businesses that help create lives with more freedom and flexibility, greater purpose and a lot more fun. In this book she offers you the same direct, no-BS coaching she's given to tens of thousands to help you acquire the skills to build this sucker and teach your team to do the same. And, equally i

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The Savage Truth: Lessons in Leadership, Business and Life from 40 Years in Recruitment

Greg Savage

4.1

The Savage Truth is the story of Greg Savage, his stellar career in recruitment and the lessons he has learned on leadership, business and life over a career spanning four decades.

The Savage Truth is a must-read for next generation leaders and lovers of business biography. It's a book in two parts. The first part covers Greg's early life - the people and events that shaped him - and follows his ca

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Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities

Renee Evenson

4.1

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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent

Joel Spolsky

4.1

A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.

A comprehensive system for hiring top-notch technical employees Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style Learn how to find great people--and get them to work for you--in an afternoon!
The top software developers are ten times more productive than average developers. Te

Recommended by Ev Williams, Adam Tornhill, Brendan Sterne, and 2 others.

Adam Tornhill

The book spans a broad field and it's obvious that many things, like the location of your company, are beyond the control of most managers and technical interviewers. Joel recognizes this and gives solid and honest no-nonsense advices. Like all of Joel's writings this book is humorous, interesting and a true joy to read. I tend to disagree quite often with Joel's technical opinions, but on the softer aspects of the business, he's brilliant. If you're involved in the hiring process, this book will give you a lot of ideas and advices. [source]

Brendan Sterne

Spolsky articulates the “Smart and Get’s Things Done” hiring philosophy pretty well in this book, and gives practical advice on how to go about the business of hiring great people. Personally, I’m a big fan of this philosophy – I think it’s worthwhile to recruit and retain top programming talent. However, I worry a little bit that this is a zero sum game playing out amongst the tech firms. Not every employer of software engineers can fill their ranks with A players. As an industry we also have to work on attracting talent from elsewhere (e.g. finance), and developing talent. I’ll leave the question of whether we can turn B players into A players for another time. [source]

Ivan Bjelajac

This book is a must read for anyone that wants to hire people that will work on creative jobs, technical or not, but almost all examples are for software companies that build software products. You will not find much practical advice for hiring staff for you non-IT company IT department. [source]

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Be a Recruiting Superstar: The Fast Track to Network Marketing Millions

Mary Christensen

4.1

Network marketing-also known as direct selling and multilevel marketing-has turned millions of people into successful business owners. But to truly reach their earning potential, network marketers need to successfully grow their businesses by recruiting the right people. Written by a true network marketing superstar who personally enlisted over 1,000 people in her first year, the book reveals a pr

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Rethinking Two Weeks' Notice: Changing the Way Employees Leave Companies for the Better

Robert Glazer

4.1

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Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking 13 Myths To Transform Your Workplace

Mita Mallick

4.1

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Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality

Henry Cloud

4.0

Integrity—more than simple honesty, it's the key to success. A person with integrity has the ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances. Drawing on experiences from his work, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, corporate consultant and nationally syndicated radio host, shows how our character can keep us from achie

Recommended by Colin Jones and Gerald Butts.

Colin Jones

This is less of a business book, but I strongly recommend every entrepreneur to read the book "Integrity" by doctor Henry Cloud. The premise is that there is no shortage of bright gifted business people, but he's worked with a lot of CEOs and executives where businesses are having a lot of problems not because of business training, or business coaching, or even business giftedness, but much more from character issues, or personal deficiencies, and that book was very eye opening. I was able to kind of see flaws in myself, or a lot of business things that have gone awry, and our mutual friend Drew, even once said to me that, every major issue he's seen in the business networks he's in, are relational. So that book, "Integrity", is awesome, I want to re-read it every year or two. [source]

Gerald Butts

Start 2020 off right. Follow Chris Arnade. His book, Integrity, is one of 2019’s very best. https://t.co/T2zQhzfgsU [source]

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Recruiting 101: The Fundamentals of Being a Great Recruiter

Steven Mostyn

4.0

Why are some recruiters successful while so many others fail and leave the industry? Why do other recruiters spend their whole careers bouncing around from company to company with little or no success? The answer: they never learned fundamental recruiting skills. Recruiting 101 explains how to develop 15 fundamental recruiting skills. Learn how to excel in sourcing, social media, recruitment marke

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Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

George Dohrmann

4.0

Eight years of unfettered access, a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths, and a genuine compassion for his subject allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars.

Hoop dreams aren’t just for players. The fever that grips college basketball prospects hoping to strike big-time NBA gold afflicts coaches, parents,

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Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations: Take Your Business and Your Life to the Next Level

Michael Erath

4.0

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Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable

Victoria Song

4.0

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Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams

Ron Friedman

4.0

FEATURED ON THE COVER OF HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ "An outstanding book." —NPR "A rare read that introduces fresh ideas about how to make groups more than the sum of their parts." —Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again "The ultimate playbook for how to build exceptional teams." —FAST COMPANY What do the best teams do differently? To find out, award-winning soci

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Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives

Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth

4.0

THE FULLY REVISED THIRD EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE COACHING FIELD FOREVERNEW 4TH EDITION released in JULY 2018!

This third edition includes fresh coaching examples, the latest in coaching terminology and an expanded, web-based 'Coach's Toolkit'.

Used as the definitive resource in dozens of professional development programs, Co-Active Coaching teaches the transformative communication proce

Recommended by Bogdan Lucaciu.

Bogdan Lucaciu

Very well structured material on coaching. I'm a better listener now. [source]

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The Unspoken Truths for Career Success: Navigating Pay, Promotions, and Power at Work

Tessa White

4.0

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Recruiting in the Age of Googlization: When The Shift Hits Your Plan

Ira S Wolfe

4.0

No business function is being disrupted by technology and demographics as much as recruitment. Tried and true recruiting practices are no longer working. New job categories are emerging, traditional jobs are disappearing and employment technologies are advancing at an exponential pace. An evolving definition of work and acceleration in the automation of work is only intensifying the competition fo

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The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face

Martin Gonzalez and Joshua Yellin

4.0

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The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance

Zach Mercurio

4.0

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SHRM CP/SCP Study Guide: Ace the Exam with Flying Colors and Secure Your HR Career | Master Your Test Preparation with a Stre

EEP Academy

4.0

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The Truth about Employee Engagement: A Fable about Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery

Patrick M. Lencioni

4.0

The Truth About Employee Engagement was originally published as The Three Signs of a Miserable Job.

A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve job satisfaction and performance.

In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: job misery. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers based on true passi

Recommended by Sean Si.

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Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership

Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan

4.0

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The Better Allies Way: A Workbook for Being More Inclusive at Work

Karen Catlin

4.0

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The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work

Ludmila N. Praslova PhD

4.0

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Leadership and the One Minute Manager Updated Ed: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership II

Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi

4.0

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The Employee Advantage: How Putting Workers First Helps Business Thrive

Stephan Meier

4.0

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Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game

Pierre Mornell, Regan Dunnick

4.0

Now in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today'�'s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"-observing a candidate'�'s behavior and predicting what they'�?ll be like in the workplace-that virtually guarantee hiring the best possible candidate for any job. An authorit

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The Ultimate Guide to HR, Checklists Edition: Your Step-by-Step Reference for Avoiding Costly Mistakes

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The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

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Negativity in the workplace costs businesses billions of dollars and impacts the morale, productivity and health of individuals and teams. "In The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work, Jon Gordon, a bestselling author, consultant and speaker, shares an enlightening story that demonstrates how you can conquer negativity and inspire others to adopt a positive attitude."

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Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

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An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun...