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Benjamin's Bookshelf and Reading List

What am I reading right now?

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, Frank Luntz

READING RECOMMENDATIONS

Fiction:

The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer Prize Winner and extremely well written. However, I found the storyline disturbing so I had to quit about halfway through.)
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (You'll cry your eyes out at the end!)
Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult (A master at tackling today's tough ethical dilemmas)

Personal or Professional Development

The Dip, Seth Godin
Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill
The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Web Thinking: Connecting, Not Competing, for Success, Linda Seger Th.D.
Jerks at Work: How to Deal with People Problems and Problem People, Ken Lloyd
Coping with Difficult People, Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson

Leadership, Management, Change, Communication

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
A Journey Into the Heroic Environment, Rob Lebow
Dictionary of the Future: The words, terms and trends that define the way we'll live, work and talk, by Faith Popcorn
First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships, Ken Blanchard
Loyalty Rules: How Today's Leaders Build Lasting Relationships, by Frederick F. Reichheld
Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
The Reengineering Alternative: A Plan for Making Your Current Culture Work, William E. Schneider
The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers, by James M. Citrin & Richard A. Smith
Legal, Effective References: How to Give and Get Them, Wendy Bliss, J.D., SPHR
Winning, Jack Welch
ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community, Jeffrey M. Hiatt
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, William Bridges
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-making, Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi and Sarah Fisk

Sales, Marketing and Entrepreneurship:

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
The Ultimate Sales Letter, Dan Kennedy
The Ultimate Marketing Plan, Dan Kennedy
All Marketers are Liars, by Seth Godin
The Anatomy of Buzz, by Emanuel Rosen
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, by Al Ries
The Influentials: One American in ten tells the other nine how to vote, where to eat, and what to buy, by Ed Keller and Jon Berry
Creating Customer Evangelists, by Ben McConnel and Jackie Huba
The Sales Bible, Jeffrey Gitomer
Little Red Book of Selling, Jeffrey Gitomer
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to do About It, by Michael E. Gerber
The Millionaire Mind, by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.

Writing:

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Noah Lukeman
Making a Good Script Great, Linda Seger Th.D.
Bird by Bird, Annie Lamott
On Writing, Stephen King
1001 Ways to Market Your Books, John Kremer
Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work, Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman & Michael Larsen
The Self-Publishing Manual, Dan Poynter
Damn! Why Didn't I Write That? How Ordinary People are Raking in $100,000 or More Writing Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too! Marc McCutcheon
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
The Elements of Grammar, Margaret Shertzer
The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, Authur Plotnik

Social, Political, Educational Issues

Power to the People, Laura Ingram
Jesus Rode a Donkey: Why Republicans Don't Have the Corner on Christ, Linda Seger, Th.D. (Linda is a valued client; we agree to disagree on many political issues)
Somebody's Gotta Say It, Neil Boortz
God in America, Newt Gingrich
The Freedom Writers Diary, Erin Gruwell (Basis for the movie, Freedom Writers)

Job Search and Career Change

Interview Answers in a Flash, by Pat Criscito and Dee Funkhouser (Barron's 2006) More than 200 flash card style questions and answers to prepare you for the job interview!
Do What You Love, the Money Wil Follow, Marsha Sinetar (this is the book that helped me take the leap and start my own business in 1997)
What Color is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles (a classic and updated yearly)
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through Secrets of Personality Type, Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, Barbara Sher
I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This, Julie Jansen
What Should I Do With My Life? Po Bronson

Communication consultant, business and career coach, strategic planning facilitator, writer. Veteran owned, woman-owned small business in Colorado Springs near Denver.