Dave great question. I am recording many of the answers.
As others have said, one book is tough to come up with. Most the answers I have read refer to motivational books. We all need to be motivated. But I have found that greatly motivated people still succeed by engaging in right practices.
The two books I would like to offer are books that helps us engage in the right actions. They help us understand how we think and challenges us to think differently, to change our paradigm of how to succeed in our business.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?
In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police.
Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(book)
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant.
In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than 100 years and 30 industries, they provide a systematic approach that every company can use to render rivals obsolete and unleash new demand.
A great site that is a follow up to the book is http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/
More on the book can be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
less
Dave great question. I am recording many of the answers.
As others have said, one book is tough to come up with. Most the answers I have read refer to motivational books. We all need to be motivated. But I have found that greatly motivated people still succeed by engaging in right practices.
The two books I would like to offer are books that helps us engage in the right actions. They help us understand how we think and challenges us to think differently, to change our paradigm
...
more
