My first book Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches is co-written with my friend and business partner Toby Jenkins.
Check out a free 28 page sample chapter (937 KB – PDF).
Below is a selection of books that I’ve read and that I recommend reading.
Business
Creativity
The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch |
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable | The Group of 33, Seth Godin |
Culture
2010 Culture Book | Zappos.com |
Rework | Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson |
Delivering Happiness | Tony Hsieh |
Customer Service
The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great | Rick Smith |
Raving Fans | Ken Blanchard |
The Future Is Customer Service | Kim Illman |
The Future IS Customer Service | Kym Illman |
The Ultimate Question 2.0 | Fred Reichheld |
What’s the Secret | John Di Julius |
Employee Engagement
Employee Enragement | James Adonis |
First Break All The Rules | Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman |
Entrepreneurship
Poke the Box | Seth Godin |
The Eagle Boys Pizza Story | Tom Potter |
Masterclass for Entrepreneurs – Vol 1 | Professor Tom McKaskill |
Execution, Influence, Persuasion & Pricing
What Made You Think Of That? | Gary Bertwistle |
Poke the Box | Seth Godin |
Made to Stick | Dan Heath and Chip Heath |
Making Ideas Happen | Scott Belsky |
Implementing Value Pricing | Ronald J. Baker |
Smart Pricing | Jagmohan Raju |
Influencer | Kerry Patterson |
Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely |
Yes! 50 Secrets From The Science of Persuasion | Robert Cialdini |
HR
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization | Dave Logan, John King, & Halee Fischer-Wright |
Who: The A Method for Hiring | Geoff Smart and Randy Street |
Ownership Thinking | Brad Hams |
Leadership
The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
The Truth about Leadership | James M. Kouzes |
The One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard |
Tribes | Seth Godin |
Multipliers | Liz Wiseman |
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently | Tony Hsieh |
Harvard Business Essentials – Negotiation | Michael Watkins |
Secrets of Internet Entrepreneurs Exposed | Dale Beaumont |
Duties and Responsibilities of Directors and Officers 18th edition | Professor Bob Baxt, Judith Madigan & Design Strategy |
Lifestyle
You are Brilliant! | Mike Francis |
The Art of Non-Conformity | Chris Guillebeau |
The Four Hour Work Week | Timothy Ferriss |
The Four Hour Body | Timothy Ferriss |
Marketing
Performance and Success
Collective Wisdom | Brett Kelly |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey |
Be Excellent at Anything | Tony Schwartz |
Go Put Your Strengths to Work | Marcus Buckingham |
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Daniel H. Pink |
Richest Man In Babylon | George Clason |
The Magic of Thinking Big | David Schwartz |
Secrets of Self Made Millionaires | Brian Tracy |
Who Stole My Mojo? | Gary Bertwistle |
Success Built to Last | Jerry Porras |
Public Speaking
Speaking to Win | Brian Tracy |
Own the Room | David Booth |
Confessions of a Public Speaker | Scott Berkun |
Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live” | Bernard McKenna, Glen Thomas & Neal Waddell |
Relationships
How to Win Friend and Influence People in the Digital Age | Dale Carnegie |
How To Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
Never Eat Alone | Keith Ferrazzi |
Who’s Got Your Back | Keith Ferrazzi |
Sales
Daly Sales Motivators | Jack Daly |
Sales Dogs | Blair Singer |
Selling in Tough Times | Tom Hopkins |
SNAP Selling | Jill Konrath |
Mastering The Complex Sale | Jeff Thull |
The Ultimate Sales Machine | Chet Holmes |
Business Stripped Bare | Richard Branson |
350 Ways to Grow Your Business | Peter Switzer |
Built to Sell | John Warrillow |
Daily Sales Motivators | Jack Daly |
Daily Sales Motivators | Tom Sant |
Pitch Anything: An innovative method for presenting, persuading, and winning the deal | Oren Klaff |
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be | Paul Arden |
Web
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