Recommended Book List
If you READ one book per week starting at age 18 and lived to be 76,
you would have only read 3016 books.
Choose your books wisely.
If you don’t like a book, put it down and move on.
Below is a large list of recommended reading we have received from our clients, associates and our own experience loosely organized by topic, but in no particular order.
Business
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, Rockefeller Habits 2.0 - Verne Harnish - Recommended By - Randy Boss
How the mighty fall : and why some companies never give in - Jim Collins - Recommended by - Dr. Andy Atwood
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (sales minus profit = expenses) - Mike Michalowicz
Ultimate sales machine - Chet Holmes
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty - Patrick Lencioni
The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos - Dave Crenshaw - Recommended By - Joe Morris
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eli Goldratt - Recommended By - Mike Doyle
Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It - Ichak Adizes - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
Stakeholder Theory: Concepts and Strategies - R. Edward Freeman
Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit - Brad Hams
Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization On the Growth Track--and Keeping It There - Les McKeown - Recommended By - Ken Baas
Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk, Revised and Expanded: The Plain Truth about Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line - Bill Catlette - Recommended By - Robert Freeman
Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz - Recommended By - Joe Morris
Million Dollar Consulting - Alan Weiss - Recommended By - Patrick Foley
Good to Great - Jim Collins
Switch:How to Change Things When Change Is Hard - Chip Heath
Every Family’s Business - Tom Deans
The Advantage - Patrick Lencioni
Traction - Gino Wickman
The Great Game of Business - Jack Stack - Recommended by Scott Goss
People over Profit: Break the system, live with purpose - Dale Partridge - Recommended by Brent Brinks
Scaling Lean - Ash Maurya
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months - Brian P. Moran - Recommended by Patrick Foley
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - Gary Keller - Recommended by Patrick Foley
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport - Recommended by Patrick Foley and James Moore
The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams - Eric Kapitulik and Jake MacDonald - Recommended by Thomas Czaplicki
Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game - Mark Miller - Recommended by Robert Freeman
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves - Dr. Dan Ariely - Recommended by Robert Freeman
The ONE Thing - Gary Keller and Jay Papasan - Recommended by Robert Freeman
Hero on a Mission - Donald Miller - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
The Business Playbook - Chris Ronzio - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
Leadership
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever - Michael Bungay Stanier
Psycho-Cybernetics - Dr. Maxwell Maltz - Recommended By - Dan Dion
God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future - Will Mancini - Recommended By - Greg Copper
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain - Recommended By - Casey Jankoska
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. - Brené Brown - Recommended By - Cheryl Morano
H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle - Brad Lomenick - Brad Lomenick - Recommended By - Oscar Quesada
Silos, politics and turf wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors - Patrick Lencioni - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
5 levels of leadership - John Maxwell - Recommended By - Randy Rodriguez
Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United - Sir Alex Ferguson
Visioneering - Andy Stanley - Recommended By - Jon Allen
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization - Peter M. Senge
Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change - Don Edward Beck - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change - William B. Joiner, Stephen A. Josephs - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life - Patrick Lencioni - Recommended By - Jon Allen
Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek - Recommended By - Leslie Fiorenzo
Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results - Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful - Malcom Goldsmith - Recommended By - Janis Patrini
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Jeff Sutherland - Recommended By - Randy Boss
4 disciplines of execution - Jim Huling Chris McChesney, Sean Covey
Strengthsfinders 2.0 - Tom Rath
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently - Jim Harter, Marcus Buckingham
The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You - John C. Maxwell and Steven R. Covey
The Servant Leader - Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges - Recommended by Brent Brinks
The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the art of influence - Ken Blanchard - Recommended by Brent Brinks
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coil - Recommended by Phil Catlett
Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performing Companies - Paul J. Zak - Recommended by Phil Catlett
Leadership Lessons of Jesus: A Timeless Model for Today's Leaders - by Bob Briner, Ray Pritchard - Recommended by Jon Allen
The Vision Driven Leader - by Michael Hyatt - Recommended by Mike Miller
Marketing
Blue ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim - Recommended By - Shelly Crooks
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No - Alex Hormozi - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
Sales
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation - Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson - Recommended By - Shelly Crooks
Get Clients Now: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches - C. J. Hayden
To sell is human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others - Danial Pink
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the buyer/seller relationship - Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig - Recommended By - Brian Young
Fanatical Prospecting - Jeb Blount - Recommended By - Rick Irvine
Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
Never Split the Differenct - Chris Voss - Recommended By - Jim Sprich
They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer - Marcus Sheridan - Recommended by Mike Miller
Self Help
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs - Emerson Eggerichs - Recommended By - Kyle Wentworth
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins - Recommended By - Wade Wyant
Balance - dizzying journey through the science of our most delicate sense - Carol Svec
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - Gary Keller
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual - Jocko Willink
Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy - Jon Gordon - Recommended By - Nick LaVigne
Compound Effect: Multiply Your Success One Simple Step at a Time - Darren Hardy - Recommended By - Monique Brennen
Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be - Jack Canfield - Recommended By - Monique Brennen
Beginners Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now - Liz Forkin Bohannon - Recommended By - Cheryl Morano
Own Your Dreams Discovering Your Purpose in Life - John C. Maxwell - Recommended By - Eric Dion
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior - Phil Jackson - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
Emotional Vampires - Dr. Al Bernstein - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
The Never-Ending Upward Quest: Essential Reading for Cultural Evolutionaries - - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving - Sam Keen - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
The Presence Process: A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness - Michael Brown - Recommended By - Dr. Andy Atwood
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler - Recommended By - Randy Boss
Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want - Michael Hyatt - Recommended By - Ellie Frey and Oscar Quesada
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry
Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything - Steven Covey - Recommended By - Phil Catlett
The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage - Mel Robbins
Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success - Benjamin Hardy
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks The Legacy Journey - Dave Ramsey
Free to Focus - Michael Hyatt
A Craftsman’s Legacy - Eric Gorges and Jon Sternfeld The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months - Brian P. Morgan and Michael Lennington
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better - Gretchen Rubin
Dream it. Pin it. Live it.: Make Vision Boards Work for You - Terri Savelle Foy
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Three Feet From Gold: Turn Your Obstacles Into Opportunities (Think and Grow Rich Series) - Sharon L. Lechter and Greg S. Reid
The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Christopher Vogler
48 Days to the work you love - Dan Miller - Recommended by Brent Brinks
Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time - Rory Vaden - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen - Recommended by Kevin Yoder
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance-What Women Should Know - Claire Shipman and Katty Kay - Recommended by Cheryl Moreno or Sheila Swanson
The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path To Spiritual Growth - Christopher L. Heuertz - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family - Patrick Lencioni - Recommended by Jon Allen
The Secret Society of Success - Tim Schurrer - Recommended by Oscar Quesada
The Happiness Project - by Gretchen Rubin - Recommended by Karin Schmidt
Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - by John Mark Comer - Recommended by Randy Rodriguez
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - by Cal Newport - Recommended by Jamie Moore
The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt - by Russ Harris - Recommended by Karin Schmidt
The Genius of Jesus - Erwin Raphael McManus
Mind Shift: It Doesn't Take a Genius to Think Like One - Erwin Raphael McManus - Recommended by Tracy Whitlow
Faith
Surprised by faith - Don Bierle
Short Trip to the Edge: A Pilgrimage to Prayer - Scott Cairns
Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness - by Eric Metaxes - Recommended by Brad Gakenheimer
Entertainment
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet - Jesse Itzler - Recommended By - Jason Lorge
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography - Sir Alex Ferguson
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell - Recommended By - Eric Dion
Only Road North: 9,000 Miles of Dirt and Dreams - Erik Mirandette
Made to stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath - Recommended By - Joe Morris
Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek - Manu Saadia - Recommended By - Dan Dexter