Author Scott Halford has put together his Suggested Reading List and you might be surprised by which books are listed.
- Be A Shortcut: The Secret Fast Track to Business Success, Scott G. Halford
- Authentic Happiness, Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD
- A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink
- Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
- Beyond Reason: Using Emotions to Negotiate, Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
- Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You’ll Ever Need, Harvey Mackay
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, Jim Collins
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini
- Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition, Harvey B. Mackay
- The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do, Mark Sanborn
- Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene.
- Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
- The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success, Dr. Howard Book and Dr. Steven Stein
- The Essential Drucker: The Best of 60 Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management, Peter Drucker
- The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, Mark Sanborn
- The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organisations, Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
- The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
- The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More, Barry Schwartz
- The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer
- You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference, Mark Sanborn