Robin's Must-Read Books

Top 50 Leadership Books

Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim
Collins

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan,
Charles Burck

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More
Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by
Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box by Arbinger Institute

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World by Brian

Klemmer

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George

Leading Change by John P. Kotter

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by
Peter F. Drucker

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by

Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core by
Bruce D. Schneider

The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard

The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership by Steve Farber

Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child by Ron
Hunter, Michael E. Waddell

Who Moved My Cheese An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in
Your Life by Spencer Johnson

The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the
extraordinary by Mark Sanborn

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings
on Management by Peter F. Drucker

Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't by Jim Champy

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman

Better People Leader, The by Charles Coonradt, Lisa Ann Thomson

The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader by Richard

Strozzi-Heckler

Leadership the Outward Bound Way: Becoming a Better Leader in the Workplace, in
the Wilderness, and in Your Community by Outward Bound USA

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C.
Taylor, Polly G. Labarre

Love 'em or Lose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye , Sharon Jordan-
Evans

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon

Chouinard

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times
by Donald T. Phillips
Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill
George

Leading for Growth: How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of
Greatness by Raymond P. Davis, Alan Shrader

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

NUTS!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success by Kevin
Frieberg

The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How To Be One by Peter B. Kyne, Alan Axelrod

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer
Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company by Joseph Michelli

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S.
Young, William L. Simon

Mandela: The Authorized Portrait by Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton

Bono by Michka Assayas

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Top 50 Business Books

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim
Collins

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by
Peter Drucker

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Updated & Expanded 2006 Edition of the World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It's Not Luck by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno

Winning by Jack Welch

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by

Michael Porter

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and
Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production- Toyota's Secret
Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James
P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones

The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan, David
P. Norton

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning

Organizations by Peter M. Senge

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

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund

Stone Zander
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do
Business by Clayton M. Christensen

The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy

Selling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki

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

Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New
Products and Services by Guy Kawasaki and Michele Moreno

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries,
Jack Trout

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make
Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More
Successful by Marshall Goldsmith

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Thomas J.

Peters and Robert H. Waterman

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney
Finkelstein

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and
How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman

Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales

Force by Ben McConnell, Jackie Huba, and Guy Kawasaki

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick
Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
25th Anniversary Edition by Robert K. Greenleaf

Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling
Less of More by Chris Anderson
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing
Business My Way by Richard Branson

Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a

Way of Life by Gary Hamel

Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
by Seth Godin

The Culting of Brands: Turn Your Customers into True Believers by Douglas Atkin

Top 50 Motivational Books

Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray

DailyOM by Madisyn Taylor

Nexus: A Neo Novel by Deborah Morrison

Quantum Wellness by Kathy Freston

A Leader Becomes a Leader by J. Kevin Sheehan

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Rules of the Red Rubber Ball by Kevin Carroll

The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn

The Nurse in the Delivery Room Slapped Me... Once by D Anthony

Just Who Will You Be? by Maria Shriver

Understanding by Lance, Buck Paul Smith

The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall

Stop Whining, Start Living by Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Think Big by M.D., Ben Carson

The Art of Influence by Chris Widener

This Year I Will... by M. J. Ryan

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol

It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh

The Life You Were Born to Live by Dan Millman

The Gift by Shad Helmstetter

My Decision to Live by Nader Elguindi

Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard

Release Your Brilliance by Simon T. Bailey

The First 30 Days by Ariane De Bonvoisin

A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson

The Radical Leap by Steve Farber

Things I have learned in my life so far by Stefan Sagmeister

Learning from the Heart by Daniel Gottlieb

Out of the Blocks by Sean Kouplen

Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy

On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life by Arianna Huffington

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon

The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Power of Giving by Azim Jamal

Your Life's Path by Diane, M. Ewing MS

From Panic to Power by Lucinda Bassett

I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding
Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

The Project 50 by Tom Peters

Today Matters by John C. Maxwell

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The Power of a Positive No by William Ury

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Seeds Of Greatness by Denis Waitley

Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell