Reading
Average of Ten Chapters per Book / One Chapter per Day = 36.5 Books per Year
A good book is my constant companion. Reading is the greatest gift to me. It brings great joy to learn from the experience, insight, and living of others.
2018 Reading List (so far)
Currently Reading
- The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, George B. Brat, Jayme A. Check, and Jorge E. Pedraza
- The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, David Horsager
- James Madison: A Life Reconsidered, Lynne Cheney
Completed in 2018
- The Girl from Aleppo: Hujeen's Esacpe from War to Freedom, Nujeen Mustafa with Christine Lamb
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, Zora Neale Hurston
- Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Miracle in Shreveport: A Memoir of Baseball, Fatherhood, and the Stadium that Built a Dream, David and Jason Benjamin
- The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness, Harlow Giles Unger (Audible)
- Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson
- Eisenhower, Paul Johnson (Audible)
- William Henry Harrison: The Life and Legacy of the First American President to Die in Office, Charles River Editors (Audible)
- The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester Arthur, Scott S. Greenberger (Audible)
- Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (About) Everything Wrong, Kristen Hadeed*****
- This is a quick read. It is a heartfelt, real-life story about the courage and experience it takes to grow as a leader. I do not remember who recommended it to me. Whoever you are, thank you. I will pay you forward by telling anyone who wants to lead to read this book!
- Don't Take It to Work, Sylvia Lafair
- John Quincy Adams, Harlow Giles Unger
- Power Questions: Build Relationships, win New Business, and Influence Others, Andrew Sobel, and Jerold Panas
- Gender Stories: Negotiating Binary World, Sonja K. Foss, Mary E. Domenico, Karen A. Foss
- Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best From Your People, Edward M. Hallowell, MD
- Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What Questions to Ask, Michael Marquardt
- Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, Edgar H. Shine
- Green Beans & Ice Cream: The Remarkable Power of Positive Reinforcement, Bill Sims, Jr.
- The Wide Circumference of Love, Marita Golden *****
- HR and the New Hispanic Workforce: A Comprehensive Guide to Cultivating and Leveraging Employee Success, Louis E.V. Nevaer and Vaso Perimenis Ekstein
- Grover Cleveland, Henry F. Graff (Audible)
- Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Great Managers, Stan Slap
- Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others, Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas
- Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best From Your People, Edward M. Hallowell, MD
- Through Five Administrations, William H. Crook (Audible)
- William McKinley, Kevin Phillips (Audible)
- You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen (Audible)
On the Bookshelf for 2018
- Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Annie McKee
- The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
- Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
- Theory U, C. Otto Scharmer
- Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Gordon S. Wood
- Trustology: The Art and Science of Leading High Trust Teams, Richard Fagerlin
- The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, David Horsager
- Green Beans and Ice Cream: The Remarkable Power of Positive Reinforcement, Bill Sims, Jr.
Completed in 2017
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard P. Feynman
- Never Coach on an Empty Stomach, Richard Greenberg
- A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger
- Revolution of Hope, Vincente Fox
- Living Out Loud, Craig Sager
- Where Wagons Could Go, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding
- Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day. Move From Surviving to Thriving, Lee Cockrell
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- The Cure for Career Quicksand: Advancing Your Career One Slice at a Time, Reagan Cannon
- Buy eleven copies of this book; one for you and one for each of the first ten family, friends, strangers, under thirty your meet in the next three days! This is Drucker's Managing Oneself on steroids.
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- Succession Planning that Works, Michael Timms
- Social NOTworking, Jody Katz Pritikin, Esq.
- Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
- A Life on the Road, Charles Kuralt
- Ask More: The Power of Question, Frank Sesno
- The Lost Art of Listening, Michael P. Nichols, PhD
- I Live for This, Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda
- Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, Mike Robbins
- The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, Gary Chapman and Paul White
- Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyalzis, Annie McKee
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall (I'm not a runner. This is a story about running, but more of a story about life. Great way to start the new year.)
- Baseball in Cape Cod, Dan Crowley
Completed in 2016
- The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- SmartStorming, Mitchell Rigie and Keith Harmeyer
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
- Just Listen, Mark Goulston
- The Leadership Pipeline, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel (Re-read)
- 1776, David McCullough
- Rumor in Town, Matt Dahlgren
- StandOut, Marcus Buckingham
- The Closer, Mariano Rivera
- The Cost of Bad Behavior, Christine Pearson and Christine Porath
- Working, Studs Terkel
- Escape from Management Land, Ken Carnes and David Cottrell
- Off Camera, Ted Koppel
- Major Conflict, Jeffrey McGowan
- Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy
- The No Complaining Rule, Jon Gordon
- The End of Average, Todd Rose***** (This rare book challenges "normal")
- The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
- Positive Intelligence, Shirzad Chamine
- Big Data @ Work, Thomas Davenport
- Where Nobody Knows Your Name, John Feinstein
- The Oregon Trail, Rinker Bunk (what a great adventure)*****
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- The Prince (audio), Niccolo Machiavelli
- Silos Politics, and Turf Wars, Patrick Lencioni
- The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon
- Jim Murray: The Last of The Best (on my shelf since 2000)
- The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
- Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, Patrick Lencioni
- The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon
- The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni
- Crucial Accountability (audio), Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
- To Lift a Mirror .... For What You've Lost, Nangy Ghafarshad
- Becoming Big League, Bill Mullins
- Girls Guide to Being a Boss (audio), Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio
- Ten Things You Can't Say In America, Larry Elder
- Bias, Bernard Goldberg
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (can't go wrong with a Studs Terkel book - insights galore)
- Turn the Ship Around, L. David Marqet
Completed in 2015
- Bully at Work
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Get Out of Your Own Way
- How to Become a Great Boss (for the New Manager)
- The Five Choices (get control of your time and your life)
- No One Understands You and What to Do About It
- One Page Talent Management (good for HR Professionals)
- Give and Take
- Between the World and Me (read this one) *****
- The Pig War (Our one-day war with Canada)
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck is my favorite all-time author)
- The Entitled
- The Boys of Summer
- The Bullpen Gospels
- The Heart of Everything That Is (Red Cloud)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (this book will open your eyes) *****
- Sparky and Me (if only we could all live our life by this example) *****
- Blink
- Wait Till Next Year
- A Portrait of My Father
- Calico Joe
- Lion in the White House
- The Old Ball Game
- Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick (a special insight into Canadian and U.S. history)
- Man in the Middle
- The Wright Brothers
- His Excellency (George Washington)