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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