Everyone has their favorites books and topics. Here at Thinkhaus, we like books that delve into how people connect, sell, communicate and help people find a better way. We’re always looking for more. What should we add to the list?
1. 101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers by Caryl Krannich
2. Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam
3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
5. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by Jim Collins
6. Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do, by Ori and Ram Brafman
7. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, by Michael Porter
8. Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull
9. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, by Geoffrey A. Moore
10. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell
11. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, by Chip and Dan Heath
12. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink
13. Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman
14. Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win, Ryan Babineaux
15. First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marshall Buckingham
16. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by William Ury and Roger Fisher
17. Go-Givers Sell More, Bob Burg
18. Good to Great, by Jim Collins
19. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, by Jim Collins
20. Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success, by Angela Duckworth
21. You Can Negotiate Anything: The World’s Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want, by Herb Cohen
22. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
23. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, by Robert Waterman and Tom Peters
24. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, by Simon Sinek
25. Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, by Peter Sims
26. Love Does by Bob Goff
27. Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck, by Chip Heath
28. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges
29. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, by Chris Voss
30. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace, by Gordon MacKenzie
31. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers, by Seth Godin
32. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely
33. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, by Seth Godin
34. Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, by Robert Sutton and Hayagreeva Rao
35. Secrets to Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
36. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
37. Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways, by William C. Taylor
38. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action, by Simon Sinek
39. Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi
40. Strengths Finder 2.0, by Tom Rath
41. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviour, Ori Brafman
42. Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate your Competition: Out Sell, Out Manage and Out Negotiate Your Competition, by Harvey Mackay
43. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip and Dan Heath
44. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business, by Patrick Lencioni
45. The Essential Drucker, by Peter Drucker
46. The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
47. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
48. The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles and rare events happen all the time, by David J. Hand
49. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton Christensen
50. The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation, by Vijay Govindarajan
51. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell
52. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home, Dan Ariely
53. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
54. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin
55. Discover Your True North by Bill George
56. What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, by Robert Steven Kaplan
57. Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, by Spencer Johnson
58. Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City, by Kelly Leonard
59. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: Dan Ariely
60. The Power of Moments: Chip and Dan Heath
61. The Undoing Project: Michael Lewis