{"id":2206,"date":"2013-04-30T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:29:20","slug":"some-good-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/2206","title":{"rendered":"Some Good Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were discussing notable books at work so I put together the below list and decided that it might also be useful here. The links go to Amazon if you’d like to read a synopsis. If you’d like my take on any of them, just let me know.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a05\/5:<\/div>\n
Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0David Allen<\/div>\n
The 360-Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by John C. Maxwell<\/div>\n
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Patrick M. Lencioni<\/div>\n
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Chip Heath, Dan Heath<\/div>\n
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Stop Talking<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Susan Cain<\/div>\n
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz<\/div>\n
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4\/5:<\/div>\n
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Chip Heath, Dan Heath<\/div>\n
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by David Allen<\/div>\n
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Daniel H. Pink<\/div>\n
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Atul Gawande<\/div>\n
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Brian Tracy<\/div>\n
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Non-business favorites:<\/div>\n
Ready Player One: A Novel<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Ernest Cline<\/div>\n
Ender\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Game (Ender, Book 1)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Orson Scott Card<\/div>\n
Daemon<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Daniel Suarez<\/div>\n
Freedom\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Daniel Suarez<\/div>\n
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We were discussing notable books at work so I put together the below list and decided that it might also be useful here. The links go to Amazon if you’d like to read a synopsis. If you’d like my take … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-zA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}