My recommended reading list

On this page you will find a list of recommended books, podcasts and websites.

This page is based on many hours of reading, researching and studying.

This list is for people who want to you.

The 9 Essentials

All of the books on this list are worthy of a read, but here’s a video and short-cut list of the 9 that I recommend for all managers, or those aspiring to management.

I read a lot and appreciate that it can be overwhelming to start. Hence, the 9. Enjoy.

Here are the 9:

• Entrepreneur Revolution – Daniel Priestley
• School of Greatness – Lewis Howes
• How the mighty fall – Jim Collins
• John Wooden on Leadership – John Wooden
• Growing a Business – Paul Hawken  (Must Read!)
• Freedom from Command and Control – John Seddon
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• How I raised myself from failure to success in sales – Frank Bettger

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Health

• The Wild Diet – Abel James – Newsletter Week 6
• Primal Endurance – Mark Sissons, Brad Kearns
• Sleep Smarter – Shawn Stevenson
• – not just for anyone with MS – Terry Wahls
• The Depression Cure – Steve Ilardi
• Natural Solutions for Digestive Health – Jillian Sarno Teta
• Change your thoughts – Wayne Dyer
• Food Rules – Michael Pollan
• Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar is killing us – John Yudkin
• Instinctive Fitness – Oliver Selway
• Survival of the fittest – Mike Stroud
• Big Fat Lies: How the diet industry is making you sick, fat and poor – David Gillespie
• Mindfulness for Busy People – Michael Sinclair, Josie Seydel
• Fatbot to Ironman – Jaan Larner
• Sugar Free For Life : How to remove the sugar from your diet – Daniel Adam
• Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health – William Davis
• Spontaneous Healing – Dr Andrew Weil MD
• Keep on running: The Highs and Lows of a Marathon Addict – Phil Hewitt
• Can’t Swim, Can’t Ride, Can’t Run : From Comman Man to Ironman – Andy Holgate
• Finding Ultra : Rejecting Middle Age – Rich Roll
• Eat and Run – Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
• Why we get fat and what to do about it – Gary Taubes
• Unbeatable Mind – Mark Divine
• The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance – Nessa Carey
• Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission – Joel Wallach
• Ikigai : The Japanese secret to a long and healthy life – Hectar Garcia
• The Fatburning man Podcast – Abel James
• The Model Health Show – Shawn Stevenson
• Destressifying – Davidjii
• Write yourself happy – the art of positive journaling – Megan C Hayes
• The joy of mindful writing – Joy Kenward

Personal Development

• Choose yourself – James Altucher – Newsletter Week 18
• How Successful People Think – John C Maxwell
• How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big – Scott Adams
• Die Empty – Todd Henry – Newsletter Week 9
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferris – Newsletter Week 3
• Black Hole Focus – Isaiah Hankel – Newsletter Week 1 2017
• Gamestorming – Dave Gray and Sunni Brown
• The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter -David Sax
• Switch – Chip and Dan Heath
• The Slight Edge – Jeff Olson
• The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy
• The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod
• Key Person Of Influence – Daniel Priestley
• Atomic Habits – James Clear (Newsletter 49)
• Can’t hurt me – David Goggins
• Make Your Bed : Small things that can change your life…and maybe the world – William McRaven
• So good they can’t ignore you – Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalist – Cal Newport
• Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
• Authentic Happiness – Martin Seligman
• Positivity – Barbara Fredrickson
• Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self control – Kelly McGonigal
• The Power of When – Michael Breus
• Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers (I read this and quit my job!!)
• Deep Work – Cal Newport
• 6 Months to 6 Figures – Peter Voogd
• Book yourself solid – Michael Port
• $100 startup – Chris Guillebeau
• Mastery – Robert Green
• 59 Seconds – Richard Wiseman
• Obliquity – John Kay
• Get out while you can, escape the rat race – George Marshall
• How to build your reputation – Rob Brown
• Never work again – Erlend Bakke
• Somebody should have told us – Jack Pransky
• Jab Jab Jab Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
• Do the work – Steven Pressfield
• Turning Pro – Steven Pressfield
• Brand You – John Purkiss
• Rapt – Winifred Gallagher
• Positioning – Al Ries and Jack Trout
• The Shallows – Nicholas Carr
• How to get a grip – Matthew Kimberley
• The Start Up of You – Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
• The Longer Tail – Chris Anderson
• Goals – How to get everything you want – Brian Tracy
• Emotional Intelligence and why it can matter more than IQ – by Daniel Goleman
• The Dip – by Seth Godin
• Perennial Seller : the art of making and marketing that lasts – by Ryan Holiday
• Discipline Equals Freedom – by Jocko Willink
• How to be your own bodyguard – by Nick Hughes
• The art of noticing – Rob Walker
• Oversubscribed – by Daniel Priestley
• Entrepreneur Revolution – Daniel Priestley
• School of Greatness – Lewis Howes
• ABCs of success – Bob Proctor
• Art and Fear – David Bayles and Ted Orland
• The complete BullS&*t-free and totally tested writing guide – Gabe Berman
• Show your work – Austin Kleon

Stoicism and Philosophy

• A guide to the good life – William B Irvine
• Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan Watts – Newsletter Week 15
• Man’s search for meaning – Viktor E Frankl
• The Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
• Obstacle is the way – Ryan Holiday
• Wherever you go there you are – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The importance of living – Lin Yutang
• The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday
• Happy – Derren Brown
• How to think like a Roman Emperor – Donald Robertson

Money, Finance & Selling

• How to get rich – Felix Dennis – Newsletter Week 24
• The Millionaire Messenger (Brendon Burchard)
• The Way Of The Wolf – Straight Line Selling – Jordan Belfort
• To sell is human – Daniel H Pink
• Priceless – William Poundstone
• The Rules of Wealth – by Richard Templar

Management

• How the mighty fall – Jim Collins
• John Wooden on Leadership – John Wooden
• Smart Retail – Richard Hammond
• I Want You To Cheat – John Seddon (Masterpiece)
• Growing a Business – Paul Hawken  (Must Read!)
• Who – A Method – Geoff Smart and Randy Street
• The Toyota Way – Jeffrey Liker
• The Toyota Kata – Mike Rother
• Reinventing Leadership – Paul Thomas
• The Fifth Discipline (systems thinking) – Peter M Senge
• Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
• The E-Myth revisited – why small businesses don’t work – Michael E Gerber
• Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
• Like a virgin – Richard Branson
• Freedom from Command and Control – John Seddon
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• How I raised myself from failure to success in selling – Frank Bettger
• Profit First – by Mike Michalowicz
• Traction – by Gino Wickman
• Thinking in Systems – by Donella Meadows
• Superbosses – by Sydney Finkelstein
• Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard

Communication

• Bareknuckle Presenter – Graham Davies – Good book on doing great presentations.
• What Every Body Is Saying – Joe Navarro – Great book on decoding body language and changing yourself to elicit the truth
• How to talk to anyone – Leil Lowndes – Brilliant book with plenty of ideas on how to talk to people
• Louder Than Words – Joe Navarro – Another book about body language from ex FBI Investigator
• How To Win Friends And Influence People – Dale Carnegie – Classic book on influence
• Steal the show – Michael Port – Brilliant guide for presenters
• Get The Truth – by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd and Susan Carnicero.
• The etymologicon – by Mark Forsyth
• Trust me I’m lying – by Ryan Holiday
• The Science of Story telling – by Will Storr
• The art and craft of storytelling – by Nancy Lamb
• The elements of style – Strunk and White
• Rhetoric – The Art of Persuasion

Ideas and Thinking

• Loonshots – How to nurture the crazy ideas…. – by Safi Bahcall
• Artful Making – by Rob Austin
• Humble Inquiry – by Edgar H Schein
• Thinker Toys – by Michael Michalko
• Factfulness – by Hans Rosling

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