The Best Books

Management

• “Business Models made Easy” by Don Debelak
• “Blue Ocean Strategy” by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
• “First Break all the rules “ by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• “Now discover your strengths” By Marcus Buckingham
• “The One thing you need to know” by Marcus Buckingham
• “The effective executive” by Peter Drucker
• “The essential Drucker” By Peter Drucker
• “The classic Drucker” By Peter Drucker
• “It is not the Big that eat the Small, it is the Fast that eat the Slow” by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton
• “The E-Myth revisited” By Michael Gerber
• “ E-Myth Mastery” By Michael Gerber
• “The E-Myth contractor” By Michael Gerber
• “The E-Myth manager” by Michael Gerber
• “Bottom Line organizational development” by Merrill Anderson
• “Maverick, the success story behind the worlds most unusual workplace” By Ricardo Semmler
• “The One Minute Manager” series by Ken Blanchard et al
• The “Fish” series by Peter Lundin et al
• “Working with emotional Intelligence” By Daniel Goleman
• “Social Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman
• “Built to Last”, by Jim Collins
• “Good to Great”, by Jim Collins
• “Rework”, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• “Small Giants”, by Bo Burlingham
• “Start with Why”, Simon Sinek
• “The Big Book of Small Business”, Andrew Griffith
• “Bullet-proof your business now”, Andrew Griffith
• “Double your profits in 6 months or less”, Bob Fifer
• “The Knack, How street Smart entrepreneurs Learn to handle whatever comes up”, Norm Brdosky and Bo Burlingham
• “The Goal, a process of ongoing improvement”, Eliyahu Goldratt
• “The seven irrefutable rules for building a sustainable business”, Steven Little

Marketing:

• “Meatball Sunday”, by Seth Godin
• “Purple Cow, by Seth Godin
• “Tribes”, by Seth Godin
• “The Milkshake moment”, by Steven Little
• “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur”, Michael Michalowicz
• “The Pumpkin Plan”, Michael Michalowicz
• “Duct Tape MArketing”, by John Jantsch
• “True Brand Toolkit”, by Michael Neaylon
• “Littel Red Book of Selling”, Jeffrey Gitomer

Quircky entrepreneurs

• “Raising the Bar, the story of Cliff Bar inc”, Gary Erckson
• “Let my people go surfing”, by Yves Chouinard
• “Reinventing the wheel”, Chris Zane
• “Peak”, by Chip Conley
• “Plain Talk”, Ken Iverson
• “Screw it, Let’s do it”, Richard Branson
• “Ben and Jerry’s Double dip”, Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
• “Become a Key Person of Influence”, Dan Priestly

Open Book Management

• “The Great Game of Business”, by Jack Stack
• ” A Stake in the Outcome”, by Jack Stack
• “Ownership Thinking”, Brad Hams
• “The Open Book experience”, by John Case
• “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits”,  Verne Harnish

Motivation, Thinking and Philosophy

• “How to have a beautiful Mind” By Edward de Bono
• “The six value Medals” by Edward de Bono
• “The New thinking for the New Millennium” by Edward de Bono
• “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by step” by E. De Bono
• “Blink” by Malcom Gladwell
• “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell
• “The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious; The pursuit of unhappiness” by Paul Watzlawick
• “Ultra-Solutions; How to fail most successfully” by Paul Watzlawick
• “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by S. Covey
• “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to become the Creative Force in your Own Life” by R. Fritz
• ”The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
• “The Art of War” by Sun Zu
• ”The Alchemist” By Paul Coelho
• “The invitation” By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
• “People Skills” by R. Bolton
• “The Street Guide to flirting” by Andrew Bryant and Michelle Lia Lewis
• “Made to Stick, why some ideas survive and others die”, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• “Switch”, Chip and Dan Heath
• “Drive, The Surprising Truth about what motivates us”, Dab Pink
• “Predictably irrational”, Dan Ariely
• “Daring Greatly; How the courage to be Vulnerable transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead”, Brene Brown

Coaching, Business Coaching, and Mentoring:

• “Fierce conversations; achieving success at work and in life, one conversation at a time”, Susan Scott
• “Quiet Leadership, teach people how to think, don’t tell them what to do” by David Rock
• “Personal Best” by David Rock, founder of Results Life Coaching
• “Coach Yourself, make Real Change in your Life” by Anthony Grant and Jane Greene
• “Solution Focused Coaching” by Anthony Grant and Jane Greene
• “Coaching for Performance” by John Whitmore
• “The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work” by Perry Zeus and Suzanne Skiffington
• “The Coaching at work Toolkit” by Perry Zeus and Suzanne Skiffington
• “The Inner game of Tennis” and Other “Inner Game” titles by T. Gallwey
• “Everyone’s a Coach” by K. Blanchard and D. Shula
• “Coaching that counts” By Dianna Anderson and Merrill Anderson
• “Coaching for Leadership: How the World’s Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn” by Marshall Goldsmith
• “Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart : A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges” by Mary Beth O’Neill
• “The Psychology of Executive Coaching” By Bruce Peltier
• “The Art of Mentoring: Lead, Follow and Get out of the Way” by S. Peddy
• “The Coaching Revolution” by D.C. Logan and J. King

Solutions Focused Brief Coaching and Strengths based coaching

• “Team Coaching with the Solution Circle” by Daniel Meier
• “Solutions Focus Working” Mark Mckergow and Jenny Clarke
• “The Solutions Focus” by Mark Mckergrow
• “Positive approaches to change” by Mark Mckergrow and Jenny Clarke
• “A Guide to possibility land” Bill O’Hanlon
• “Do one thing different; Ten simple ways to change your life” by Bill O’Hanlon
• “Change 101; A practical guide to creating Change” by Bill O’Hanlon
• “Solutions Focused Therapy” by B. O’Connell
• “Interviewing for solutions, second edition” by DeJong P and Berg I K
• “Clues – Investigating solutions in brief therapy” by S de Shazer
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Psychology and Counselling:

• “My Voice will go with you; The teaching tales of Milton Erickson” by Sidney Rosen
• “Uncommon Therapy; The psychiatric techniques of Milton Erickson” by Jay Haley
• “Learned Optimism” by M. Seligman
• “Authentic Happiness” By M Seligman
• “Flow” By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• “The Art of Counselling” by Rollo May
• “The skilled Helper” By Gerald Egan

The brain,

• “A Users Guide to the Brain” by John Ratey
• “How the mind works” By Steven Pinker
• “The Human Mind” By Robert Winston
• “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman
• “Woking with emotional Intelligence” By Daniel Goleman
• “Social Intelligence” By Daniel Goleman
• “Mozart’s Brain & the Fighter Pilot – Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential” by Richard M Restak

Chaos and Systems:

• “What the Bleep do we know”, The book, By William Arntz et al
• “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe” by Lynne McTaggart
• “The Hole in the Universe” by KC Cole
• “Science and the Akashic Field” by Ervin Laszlo
• “The Secret; The law of attraction”
• “The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture” by F. Capra
• “Chaos” by J. Gleick
• “Emergence, from Chaos to Order” By John Holland
• “The Systems view of the World” By Ervin Laszlo
• “Complexity, Life at the edge of Chaos” by Roger Lewin