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Books We Recommend

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