Hello — my name is Anthony Fasano, I am the founder of the Engineering Management Institute where we help engineers and other technical professionals become more effective managers and leaders. I preach to engineers constantly about the importance of self-improvement, and to that end, I’m constantly working on my own development. One of the ways I work on improving my own skills is through reading. I usually read (or listen) to three to five books per month. We decided to create this page so that we can easily share these books with our readers depending on what skills you are looking to improve. Please enjoy and feel free to contact us should you have comments about this page or want to share books that you have found to be helpful. Thank you.
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| This book will teach you how to: • Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate • Find property with real potential • Show you how to unlock the myths that are holding you back • Negotiating the deal based on the numbers • Evaluate property and purchase price • Increase your income through proven property management tools. Click to view on Amazon | ||
 | Art’s Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies that propelled a small business into one of the largest and most admired in its industry. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Face To Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World by Susan RoAne | Bestselling author, communications expert, and popular keynote speaker Susan RoAne shows that face to face encounters are still paramount to both career and personal success. For those attached to their gadgets, gizmos, and Google, RoAne explains how technology should enhance, not envelop their lives. Whether it’s handling office politics, turning small talk into BIG TALK, finding a mentor, or conducting successful business deals over meals, RoAne offers tips to interact and connect with comfort and confidence in shared social space. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss | Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you: -Six ways to make people like you -Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking -Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment And much more! Click to view on Amazon | |
 | How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, a meeting, or while communicating online. Drawing from her vast experiences working with top industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, Apple, the NFL, and UnitedHealth, Susan RoAne presents easy-to-implement strategies to exude more confidence, win over your colleagues, and achieve more at work and in life. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership, followership, and partnerships. This research-backed, field-tested book contributes many new ideas and practical advice for everyone in an organization – from CEO to HR director to front-line manager to consultant. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More by Richard Koch | Acclaimed entrepreneur and author Richard Koch changed the face of the business world with The 80/20 Principle. In Living the 80/20 Way, a self-help bestseller, he returns to show how working and worrying less can transform our personal lives. Koch takes the widely renowned 80/20 principle and shows how in today’s cluttered and stressful world, working out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us those things, leads to increased happiness and greater success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard | Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike. Click to view on Amazon |
 | This new 5th edition includes an up-to-date culture and vocabulary guide, allowing you to broaden your knowledge of contemporary language and customs. Do you want to learn Spanish or brush up what you know already? Are you looking for a course with a traditional approach to language learning, based on solid grammatical foundations, translation skills and practical vocabulary? If so, this is the course for you. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your handbook to the tried and true financial wealth building vehicle that rewards patience and perseverance and is available to all–real estate. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy | Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals: • How to get a job in advertising • How to choose an agency for your product • The secrets behind advertising that works • How to write successful copy—and get people to read it • Eighteen miracles of research • What advertising can do for charities. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser | Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients, and Contracts by Tom Sant | This classic guide explains how to craft compelling messages and powerful proposals that attract prospects’ attention and speak to their needs. The new edition includes more valuable information than ever before, including: * Essential questions for qualifying opportunities * Ways to “power up” cover letters and executive summaries * Advice for overcoming “value paranoia” * Guidelines for incorporating proof into a proposal * Tips for winning renewal contracts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain | In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark | In Reinventing You, branding expert Dorie Clark provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make. Mixing personal stories with engaging interviews and examples from well-known personalities—Mark Zuckerberg, Al Gore, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and others—Reinventing You shows how to think big about your professional goals, take control of your career, build a reputation that opens doors for you, and finally live the life you want. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Anyone stuck in the rat-race of living paycheck to paycheck, enslaved by the house mortgage and bills, will appreciate this breath of fresh air. Learn about the methods that have created more than a few millionaires. This is the first abridged miniature edition of Rich Dad Poor Dad. The full-length edition has sold millions as a New York Times bestseller. As proven by the runaway success of The Secret and like titles, changing one’s thinking to influence one’s fortune sells big, and forms the basis of rich dad’s advice. Learn to think like a rich dad and let your money work for you! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Road to Character by David Brooks | Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It by Dorie Clark | Dorie Clark explains how to identify the ideas that set you apart and promote them successfully. The key is to recognize your own value, cultivate your expertise, and put yourself out there. Featuring vivid examples and drawing on interviews with Seth Godin, Robert Cialdini, and other thought leaders, Clark teaches readers how to develop a big idea, leverage existing affiliations, and build a community of followers. She offers not mere self-promotion, but an opportunity to change the world for the better while giving you the ultimate job insurance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. | You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book’s unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of “the little book” to make a big impact with writing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg | The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge by Alan Butler | We’re only just beginning to realize that Bronze Age people knew far more about astronomy and engineering than we have given them credit for. Reading like a thriller, The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge shows what Grail Knowledge really was and is. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence by Richard Nielsen | This book is 570+ pages of a scientific review of the data and facts that surround the Kensington Runestone. The authors tackle the rune stone mystery from every angle imaginable in complete detail, using archaeology, linguistics, geology, and runeology! Tons of illustrations, photos, tables and data are included. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod | What if you could wake up tomorrow and any—or EVERY—area of your life was beginning to transform? What would you change? The Miracle Morning is already transforming the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world by showing them how to wake up each day with more ENERGY, MOTIVATION, and FOCUS to take your life to the next level. It’s been right here in front of us all along, but this book has finally brought it to life. Are you ready? The next chapter of YOUR life—the most extraordinary life you’ve ever imagined—is about to begin. Buy the book and WAKE UP to your full potential! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Miracle Morning for Salespeople brings you the Life S.A.V.E.R.S. as a guide for taking your SALES to the next level. Get beyond the typical sales advice and get into a daily rhythm that will transform your career. The Miracle Morning for Salespeople brings you the Life S.A.V.E.R.S. as a guide for taking your SALES to the next level. Get beyond the typical sales advice and get into a daily rhythm that will transform your career. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller | The ONE Thing has made more than 400 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 Wall Street Journal, NewYork Times, and USA Today. It won 12 book awards, has been translated into 30 languages, chosen as one of the Top 5 Business Books of 2013 by Hudson’s Booksellers and one of Top 30 Business Books of 2013 by Executive Book Summaries.Voted one of Top 100 Business Books of All Time on Goodreads. People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker’s Wife is replete with the all the page-turning adventure, sumptuous detail, and heart-stopping romance that has made Adriana Trigiani, “one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction” (USA Today). Click to view on Amazon | |
 | To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink | To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it’s no longer “Always Be Closing”), explains why extraverts don’t make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an “off-ramp” for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom | Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Do I Say Next?: Talking Your Way to Business and Social Success by Susan RoAne | Susan Roane, keynote speaker and bestselling author provides the reader with easy solutions, can’t miss guidelines and vital do’s and dont’s in the fine art of conversation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Win More Work: How to Write Winning A/E/C Proposals by Jim R Rogers | Win More Work: How to Write Winning A/E/C Proposals offers an experienced look at how to write memorable proposals. Being memorable is the key to success. This book will help architects, engineers, construction executives, and their marketing professionals understand how to write proposals that can double their win rate —thereby freeing them up to provide better service to customers, reduce marketing costs from bad pursuits, or simply spend more time with family and fewer Saturdays at the office. This book has something to say to both the novice proposal writer and those with decades of experience. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A classic work on leadership for business men and women, government leaders and all persons in positions of authority. Click to view on Amazon | |
 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey | CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the last 25 years. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, educators and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Click to view on Amazon |
| America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins | The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Generals’ War : The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf by Michael R. Gordon | An account of the war in the Persian Gulf takes readers behind the scenes at the Pentagon and the White House to provide portraits of the top military commanders and to discuss what worked and what did not. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth | In Jefferson Davis and His Generals, Steven Woodworth shows that both extremes are accurate—Davis was both heroic and incompetent. Yet neither viewpoint reveals the whole truth about this complicated figure. Woodworth’s portrait of Davis reveals an experienced, talented, and courageous leader who, nevertheless, undermined the Confederacy’s cause in the trans-Appalachian west, where the South lost the war. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way To a Better Body, Better Health and Bigger Success by Shawn Stevenson | Sleep Smarter is a fun and entertaining look at how sleep impacts your mind, body, and performance, without skimping on the “how to’s” to get the sleep you really deserve. Whether you’ve struggled with sleep problems, or you’re simply interested in living a longer, healthier life, you’re going to be blown away with what you learn. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors | A dramatic coming-of-age story set in the decade after World War II, “Warlight” is the mesmerizing new novel from the best-selling author of “The English Patient. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler | In this groundbreaking book, New York Times–bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of “flow,” an optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi (“the leading researcher into ‘flow states’” —Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Necessary Bridges: Public Speaking & Storytelling for Project Managers & Engineers by Rashid N. Kapadia | The primary purpose of this book is to get project managers and engineers to commit to acquiring expertise in public speaking and storytelling. The secondary purpose is to provide (just) enough content (accompanied by exercises, examples and directions to other resources — i.e. the work of others) to keep the commitment strong and sustained over years. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Preeminence: High performance principles to accelerate your business and career by Paul W. P. Rulkens | In The Power of Preeminence you will learn the critical skills and inside secrets to: – Focus on the few things necessary for business success – Dramatically grow your business and career – Achieve twice the results in half of the time – Strategically quit your way to achieve big goals – Communicate anything to anyone – Quickly and cheaply innovate and outsmart your competition – Rapidly build essential high-performance habits – Become part of the top 10 percent in your professional field. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy | Tracy presents a simple, powerful, and effective system for setting and achieving goals—a method that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things. In this revised and expanded second edition he has added three new chapters addressing areas in which goals can be most rewarding but also the toughest to set and keep: finances, family, and health. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker | Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned:
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath | Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini | Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina | In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule—what scientists know for sure about how our brains work—and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon | You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan | What the CEO Wants You to Know captures insights and explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently: *Understand the basic building blocks of a business and use them to figure out how your company makes money and operates as a total business. *Decide what to do, despite the clutter of day-to-day business and the complexity of the real world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield | Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance – a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door. Picking up where The War of Art and Turning Pro left off, Do The Work takes the reader from the start to the finish of any long-form project—novel, screenplay, album, software piece, you name it. Do The Work identifies the predictable Resistance Points along the way and walks you through each of them. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr | The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully. It provides a clear road map to becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned — both on and off the job. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Risk Management Memory Jogger by Carl Pritchard | How do you deal with risk? Risk is everywhere…in your work, at home, and an ever-present factor in new ventures, financial investments, relationships, work projects, and all types of events…how do you decide whether the effort is worth the risk, or figure out how to minimize the risks? This guide will help you deal with the potentially rocky road of opportunity and risk. It begins with a road map and a five-step plan for how to proceed, including the rules of the road such as key terms to know, pitfalls to avoid, and tips that will keep you moving toward your goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance by Carl Pritchard | This new edition of Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance supplies a look at risk in light of current information, yet remains grounded in the history of risk practice. Taking a holistic approach, it examines risk as a blend of environmental, programmatic, and situational concerns. Supplying comprehensive coverage of risk management tools, practices, and protocols, the book presents powerful techniques that can enhance organizational risk identification, assessment, and management―all within the project and program environments. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein | In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction by Wendy Northcutt | Fully illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvelously macabre, The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction chronicles the astonishing acts of individuals who have taken a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool. From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a taser to treat a snake bite, these gloriously gruesome incidents prove that the countdown (to human extinction) is well under way. And we won’t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life by Chris Farrell | Unretirement not only explains this seismic change, now in its early stages, it provides key insights and practical advice for boomers about to navigate this exciting, but unsettled, new frontier, drawing on Chris Farrell’s decades of covering personal finance and economics for Bloomsberg Businessweek and Marketplace Money. This will be an indispensable guide to the landscape of unretirement from one of America’s most trusted experts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chödrön | In her wise and friendly manner, Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron lays out the basic training for becoming a warrior-bodhisattva: one who courageously takes up the path of awakening compassion for both self and others. This gathering of 108 short stand-alone readings – one for every bead in a traditional Buddhist mala – is designed to help readers cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. Buddhist and non-Buddhists alike will find inspiration in her teachings. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman | Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom have discovered some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders and reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone | Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. The Everything Store is the book that the business world can’t stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career by Anthony Fasano | Focusing on basic skills and tips for career enhancement, Engineer Your Own Success is a guide to improving efficiency and performance in any engineering field. It imparts valuable organization tips, communication advice, networking tactics, and practical assistance for preparing for the PE exam—every necessary skill for success. Authored by a highly renowned career coach, this book is a battle plan for climbing the rungs of any engineering ladder. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett | From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work…and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough | “Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army’s premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today’s warrior.”—John C. “Doc” Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The Defense of Duffer’s Drift quickly became a bestseller and today is still widely read. The Defense of Hill 781 is a modem version of this classic—a tactical primer with ample funpoking, but with serious lessons to be learned. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace by W. Timothy Gallwey | The Inner Game of Work teaches you the difference between a rote performance and a rewarding one. It teaches you how to stop working in the conformity mode and start working in the mobility mode. It shows how having a great coach can make as much difference in the boardroom as on the basketball court– and Gallwey teaches you how to find that coach and, equally important, how to become one. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson | The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to:
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 | StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath | In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades. Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself–and the world around you–forever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words by Hyman G. Rickover | This ebook is a practical and philosophical look at the principles used by engineers from the perspective of one of America’s greatest engineers, Admiral Hyman George Rickover. He is an icon in the history of nuclear power, and one of his greatest contributions was to develop nuclear power technology to meet much higher safety and quality standards than past technological developments. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference by Theodore Rockwell | As Technical Director, Rockwell worked alongside the legendary Admiral Rickover for the first 15 years, creating the nuclear navy, then the world’s first commercial atomic power station. Rickover was both admired and hated as he forcibly reformed both bureaucracies and industries to harness the fearsome atom. Click to view on Amazon |
 | To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski | More than a series of fascinating case studies, “To Engineer is Human” is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Sinking of the USS Maine: Declaring War Against Spain (Milestones in American History) by Samuel Willard Crompton | Bolstered by biographical sketches, extensive photographs, excerpts from primary source documents, and first-person narratives, each title in this history series presents a three-dimensional look at a particular event and those people who not only played an integral part in making it significant but also those who were ultimately affected by its consequences. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government by Jonathan Weinstein | Gain Valuable Insight into the Government’s Project Management Best Practices! Although project management is not new to the federal government, the discipline has taken on renewed importance in the face of the ever-increasing size, complexity, and number of mission-critical projects being undertaken by every branch and agency. This book addresses the key facets of project management, from organization and structure to people and process. A variety of government entities share their best practices in areas including leadership, technology, teams, communication, methodology, and performance management. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Government Manager’s Guide to Project Management by Jonathan Weinstein | This realistic cross-section of the project management discipline in the federal arena will help anyone leading, working on, or affecting the direction of a project team. It covers the entire scope of project management from organization to methodology, technology to leadership. This volume focuses on the three project management organizational dimensions of culture, systems, and structure. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter | Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading Change by John P. Kotter | This immensely relevant bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization. Reading this highly personal book is like spending a day with the world’s foremost expert on business leadership. You’re sure to walk away inspired—and armed with the tools you need to inspire others. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath | In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results: ● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients. ● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping. ● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a ‘guru to industry’ and by Businessweek as a ‘genius’. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry – even to your bosses – but not to your competitors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Value Redesigned: New Models for Professional Practice by Kyle V. Davy | This groundbreaking book presents an in-depth look into that potential future. Davy and Harris reveal a vivid landscape where innovative new models for professional practice are already beginning to flourish, showing firms avenues of escape from the vicious cycle of commoditization and low prestige that is epidemic within the architecture and engineering community. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban | Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS. “It’s New Year’s resolution time, and Mark Cuban’s new book offers the rationale for a good one.” ―BUSINESS INSIDER. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 10-10-10: A Fast and Powerful Way to Get Unstuck in Love, at Work, and with Your Family by Suzy Welch | With 10-10-10, Welch proposes a transformative solution to this pressure, helping us tease apart our deepest goals and values, candidly face our fears and dreams, and rid ourselves of frustration and regret. 10-10-10 has shown its effectiveness in decisions large and small, routine and radical, getting us out of neutral at home, in love, and at work. Across the board, this immensely useful and revelatory idea provides us with the tools to regain control of our choices—and ultimately reclaim our lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture by Paul Gibbons | The Science of Organizational Change identifies dozens of change management myths, bad models, and unhelpful metaphors, replacing some with twenty-first century research and revealing gaps where research needs to be done. Paul Gibbons links the origins of theories about change to the history of ideas and suggests that the human sciences will provide real breakthroughs in our understanding of people in the twenty-first century. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reboot Your Life: A 12-Day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive by Paul Gibbons | Reboot Your Life is a 12-day process for reflecting on where you are in life, on clearing out aspects that don’t work, on designing your mission and vision, creating goals, and learning strategies for realizing those goals with the latest productivity strategies. Each day has a few minutes reading, but then practical exercises and tools to get you quickly into action. “Reboot” is the same process used by life-coaches who charge thousands of dollars, but after completing the process, you will be your own greatest coach. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler | From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge | In The Fifth Discipline, Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Introduction to Creativity and Innovation for Engineers by Stuart G. Walesh | This first edition of Introduction to Creativity and Innovation for Engineers was primarily designed for engineering students interested in acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) that will help them be more creative and innovative. While intended primarily for engineering students, the widely applicable principles, ideas, tools, and methods introduced will also be useful for practicing engineers and as well as members of other disciplines. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of Engineering by Stuart G. Walesh | This updated edition of Engineering Your Future is the go-to resource on the nontechnical aspects of professional practice for engineering students and young technical professionals alike. The content is explicitly linked to current efforts in the reform of engineering education including ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000, ASCE’s Body of Knowledge, and those being undertaken by AAEE, AIChE and ASME. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition | The manner in which civil engineering is practiced must change. That change is necessitated by such forces as globalization, sustainability requirements, emerging technology, and increased complexity with the corresponding need to identify, define, and solve problems at the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Click to view on Amazon |
 | As a Man Thinketh by James Allen | “As a Man Thinketh” is a literary essay by James Allen, first published in 1902. In more than a century it has become an inspirational classic, selling millions of copies worldwide and bringing faith, inspiration, and self healing to all who have encountered it. The title comes from the Bible: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” — Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineer Resume Hacking: Shortcuts to outshining your peers and getting interviews by Richard Poulin | If you’re a civil engineer looking to improve your resume, this book is just for you! And we mean just for you. All the examples in here are tailored for civil engineers (and structural engineers, project engineers or field engineers). We actually went through many of your peers’ resumes, to identify what made the best stand out. This is what you’ll find in this guide: the most relevant, high impact material from civil engineer resumes. Click to view on Amazon |
 | slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte | With slide:ology you’ll learn to:
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 | Ignite Your Culture: 6 Steps to Fuel Your People, Profits and Potential by Carol Ring | Ignite Your Culture demystifies the concept of culture and provides an easy-to-follow framework for energizing that culture. Ring advocates a six-step IGNITE process, turning the nebulous concept of culture into a concrete business strategy. Her thought-provoking questions challenge leaders to raise their awareness about the true impact culture has on performance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search by Danny Rubin | In his award-winning guide, communications expert Danny Rubin provides more than 100 email/document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Rubin saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing. Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a perfect resource for people who need to build relationships and grow into careers. It’s also used in high schools, colleges, workforce development programs and even the Pentagon as part of in communications courses for senior-level personnel. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25 by Danny Rubin | Millennial author Danny Rubin shows 20-somethings (and people of any age) how to be more effective communicators and impress our bosses at every turn. “25 Things” is perfect for recent grads and anyone new to a job or the workforce. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Greet! Eat! Tweet!: 52 Business Etiquette Postings To Avoid Pitfalls and Boost Your Career by Barbara Pachter | Whether you are a first-timer, want to advance your career, or are desperately seeking employment, Greet! Eat! Tweet! is a must-have guide that will show you how to project the right image for success. Created by internationally renowned business etiquette speaker, coach, and author Barbara Pachter, Greet! Eat! Tweet! provides the best advice from her top fifty-two blogs, which will have you establishing relationships easily, writing and speaking confidently, using social media successfully, and giving effective presentations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home, Online, and in Life, completely revised and updated edition by Barbara Pachter | This book teaches you the vital skills you need to confront others, communicate effectively, and live a more conflict-free life. In this updated edition, communications expert Barbara Pachter shares a practical, step-by-step guide to tackling conflicts in any situation, including a new section on navigating sticky situations online. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success by Barbara Pachter | “If you are looking for practical guidelines on how to conduct yourself in a business situation, what behaviors you need to use to get ahead, and how to be sure that you do not offend others, read this book!” — MADELINE BELL, President and COO, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Service Etiquette, 5th Edition by Cherlynn Conetsco | This all-new 5th edition of the venerable Service Etiquette cements the guide’s reputation as the definitive resource of military protocol. International protocol experts Cherlynn Conetsco and Anna Hart have totally rewritten the book, expanding its scope and intended readership from military officers and military spouses to all levels of the military, government, and business professionals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success by Chip Conley | Using brilliantly simple logic that illuminates the universal truths in common emotional challenges, Emotional Equations offers a way to identify the elements in our lives that we can change, those we can’t, and how to better understand our emotions so they can help us . . . rather than hurt us. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Learn and Memorize Italian Vocabulary…: Using a Memory Palace Specifically Designed for the Italian Language by Anthony Metivier | If you’d like to double, triple or even quadruple your ability to learn Italian vocabulary by using simple memory techniques that you can learn in 30 minutes or less, then this may be the most important audiobook that you will ever listen to. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Business Manager Resume Hacking: Shortcuts to outshining your peers and getting interviews by Richard Poulin | If you’re a business manager looking to improve your resume, this book is just for you! And we mean just for you. All the examples in here are tailored for managers; we actually went through many of your peers’ resumes, to identify what made the best stand out. This is what you’ll find in this guide: the most relevant material from resumes of various managers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Big Dig by Dan McNichol | The first book ever written about Boston’s Big Dig–the largest, most complex highway construction project ever embarked upon in U.S. history! This regional blockbuster reached #1 on the Boston Globe’s bestseller list. Filled with dozens of remarkable photos and fascinating archival illustrations, it pulsates with details only an insider like Dan McNichol, former director of the project who was in at the conception, could provide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reinventing Yourself, 20th Anniversary Edition: How to Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be by Steven Chandler | This completely revised and updated edition of Reinventing Yourself, the motivational classic by inspirational author Steve Chandler, features several new chapters. You’ll learn numerous techniques for breaking down negative barriers and letting go of the pessimistic thoughts that prevent you from fulfilling, or even allowing yourself to conceive of, your goals and dreams. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sam Walton: Made In America | In an autobiographical account of his rise to the pinnacle of the American retail business, the personal reminiscences of the late billionaire retailer are combined with dozens of interviews with Sam Walton’s family and friends. Click to view on Amazon |
 | John T. Molloy’s New Dress for Success | All the changes that have taken place in men’s wardrobes in the past fifteen years are incorporated into this highly successful title. Contains 30 percent new information and a four-color, four-page illustration insert. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber | In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you’re worth by Josh Doody | Fearless Salary Negotiation is a step-by-step guide to getting paid what you’re worth. But it’s also something deeper–it’s an exposé on how companies determine salaries and job titles, and how they think about raises and promotions. It is a roadmap showing you how to successfully bridge the chasm between what you know about salaries, job titles, and pay structures, and how they actually work so you can maximize your salary. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco | Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don’t want a lifetime subscription to “settle-for-less” and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Winner’s Lifestyle by Daniel Ally | Have you ever wondered how people become successful? It can take you many years to search for the kind of answers that can help speed up your results. Daniel has done the research for you and distributes the finest tools to help you get promoted quickly in your life. This easy-to-read and definitive book captures the key principles of getting the most out of life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Ultimate Advantage by Daniel Ally | Daniel has gone from obscurity to fame and poverty to wealth and teaches you how you can do it too. If you are tired of living the way you are currently living, this book is waiting for you. It will give you the new ideas that you have been longing for, a fresh frame of mind, and the greatest methods ever found to achieve the most in life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | You Are The Boss! by Daniel Ally | You Are the Boss! will reveal the truth about yourself. Daniel Ally releases precepts that will align with what you naturally know and were afraid to think or discuss with others. This wonderful book slices right through your cranium and will send shockwaves through your body. You Are The Boss! will captivate you with its illuminating stories and breakthrough concepts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau | Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by motivational speaker and author Robin Sharma is an inspiring tale that provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Guide to Managing Engineering and Architectural Design Services Contracts: What every project manager needs to know by John M. Lowe | The book is a resource to design professionals as they manage their professional services contracts. Its more than fifty topics address the process from being selected, through the design process, and to preparation of record documents after construction. The book also contains twelve sample documents intended to improve effectiveness and efficiency during the design and construction process. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins | In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard | For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life by Michael Masterson | In The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life, author Michael Masterson reveals how to become successful-and not just financially, but in every area of life. The book
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 | Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins | The creator of acclaimed personal achievement programs and the author of the bestselling “Unlimited Power” reveals the proven steps to self-mastery. Robbins shares the secrets of his exclusive “Date with Destiny” seminars, describing how unconscious beliefs control our behavior and how we can make immediate changes to accomplish our goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken | On its first publication 10 years ago, Natural Capitalism rocked the world of business with its innovative new approach – an approach that fused ecological integrity with business acumen using the radical concept of natural capitalism. This 10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by Amory B. Lovins and Paul Hawken which updates the story to include the successes of the last decade. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy | In Speak to Win, Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that readers can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience. Readers will learn how to: * become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience * grab people’s attention from the start * use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged * transition smoothly from one point to the next * use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully * deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas * wrap up strongly and persuasively Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Tracy lets readers in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide. Click to view on Amazon |
| The New Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line by Bob Willard | Fully revised and updated, this tenth anniversary edition clearly demonstrates that, by focusing on seven powerful yet easy to grasp sustainability strategies, businesses can:
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 | The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken | The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken’s impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is more relevant and resonant than ever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business by John Elkington | Cannibals with Forks passionately demonstrates how all businesses can and must help society achieve the three inter-linked goals of economic prosperity,environmental protection and social equity, issues which are already at the top of the corporate agenda.Click to view on Amazon |
 | How To Be a Rocket Scientist: 10 powerful tips to enter the aerospace field and launch the career of your dreams by Brett Hoffstadt | Distilled from over two decades of wide-ranging experience in the aerospace industry and written in a conversational style, within these tips are stories, quotes of wisdom, and specific resources help launch you on a course that can transform your dreams into reality. Even if your career journey is aimed toward another field, the tips that prove powerful for rocket scientists will give you unique propulsive force plus guidance, navigation, and controls (or GNC) for your own success. When you read this book you’ll get 10 powerful tips to help you realize that Yes–YOU COULD BE a rocket. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin | Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. They may not be famous but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom. As Godin writes, “Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sustainability in Project Management by Gilbert Silvius | Sustainability in Project Management explores and identifies the questions surrounding the integration of the concepts of sustainability in projects and project management and provides valuable guidance and insights. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day by Intelligent Change | THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START YOUR DAY HAPPY – Using the science of positive psychology to improve happiness, The Five Minute Journal focuses your attention on the good in your life. Improve your mental well-being and feel better every day. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Laws That Determine All of Life’s Outcomes by Brett Harward | This book is about the laws that govern successful outcomes whether it’s more money, fulfillment, self esteem, better health, connection with others, or any other aspect of life. 5 Laws control our outcomes in life… whether we know them or not. These laws control our speed and trajectory in life and most importantly how we deal with others. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars by Samuel I. Schwartz | From San Francisco to Salt Lake, Charleston to Houston, the American city is becoming a better and better place to be. Schwartz’s Street Smartis a dazzling and affectionate history of the struggle for control of American cities, and an inspiring off-road map to a more vibrant, active, and vigorous urban future. |
 | Find The Lost Dollars by June Jewell | In Find the Lost Dollars: 6 Steps to Increase Profits in Architecture, Engineering and Environmental Firms, you will learn to get the most from people, processes and technology to gain a competitive edge and increase your firm’s profitability. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm by Verne Harnish | From Harnish’s famous One-Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by Kenneth A. Adams | A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Third Edition is a uniquely in-depth survey of the building blocks of contract language. First published in 2004, it offers those who draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts an alternative to the dysfunction of traditional contract language and the flawed conventional wisdom that perpetuates it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ask by Ryan Levesque | Ask is based on the compelling premise that you should NEVER have to guess what your prospects and customers are thinking. The Ask Formula revealed in this book has been used to help build multi-million dollar businesses in 23 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed by Brian Tracy | In Maximum Achievement, Brian Tracy gives you a powerful, proven system — based on twenty-five years of research and practice — that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Prosperity in The Age of Decline: How to Lead Your Business and Preserve Wealth Through the Coming Business Cycles by Brian Beaulieu | In Prosperity in the Age of Decline, Brian and Alan Beaulieu—the CEO and President of the Institute for Trend Research® (ITR)—offer an informed, meticulously-researched look at the future and the coming Great Depression. Drawing on ITR’s 94.7% forecast accuracy rate, the book outlines specific, actionable strategies for capitalizing on cyclical opportunities and dodging economic danger. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Root Cause Analysis : A Tool for Total Quality Management by Paul Wilson | More than a troubleshooting guide, this thorough reference provides step-by-step instructions for digging beneath apparent causes to uncover the true problems in quality processes and explains techniques for correcting root causes and preventing their recurrence. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success by Angie Morgan | In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants and military Veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek | START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way — and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport | In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek | The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek’s viral video “Millenials in the workplace” (150+ million views). Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women by Angie Morgan | THE LEADERSHIP BESTSELLER FOR WOMEN–FROM TWO MARINE CORPS CAPTAINS “A brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. It’s one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years.” |
 | So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport | In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The CSI Construction Contract Administration Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Construction Contract Administration Practice Guide:
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 | The CSI Construction Specifications Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive references specifically and carefully designed for the construction professional. Each book examines important concepts and best practices integral to a particular aspect of the building process. The CSI Construction Specifications Practice Guide is focused on the roles and responsibilities of the specifications professional in meeting the challenges of the changing world of construction. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The CSI Project Delivery Practice Guide by Construction Specifications Institute | The CSI Project Delivery Practice Guide provides fundamental knowledge for the documentation, administration, and successful delivery of construction projects. It also serves as the pivotal starting point for understanding CSI’s core values, as well as a useful study aid for those wishing to obtain the Construction Documents Technologist certificate. Click to view on Amazon |
 | One More River To Cross by JH Joiner | Military bridging, often impeded by mines and hostile enemy fire, is a vital part of the advance of any modern army. Britain’s Royal Engineers have played a leading role in this crucial military operation, from the ravines behind the D-Day beaches to recent operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount | Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Complete Freelancer Guide: Become your own boss, do what you love, and make money doing it by Ian Balina | Whether you’re tired of your day job or just want to start your own business on the side, The Complete Freelancer Guide is the ultimate guide for a fresh and radical career shift. Ignore the old notion of working up the corporate ladder and waiting your turn to do what you love—there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Public Speaking for Engineers: Communicating Effectively with Clients, the Public, and Local Government by Shoots Veis | In Public Speaking for Engineers: Communicating Effectively with Clients, the Public, and Local Government, Veis takes readers step by step through the process of preparing for a presentation. He breaks the main topics-speech planning, design, and delivery-into component pieces and explains the range of choices, emphasizing the importance of understanding your audience. Throughout the book, he uses an ongoing example to illustrate the path for planning, preparing, and delivering a speech. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany | For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard, recognized that “Suburban Nation is likely to become this movement’s bible.” A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions: “an essential handbook” Click to view on Amazon |
 | That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman | In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a country—globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and our pattern of energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to preserve American power in the world. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 15th Ed by Michael R. Lindeburg PE | New for 2018. Choose the new edition of PE Civil Reference Manual, Sixteenth Edition and receive the eTextbook for free. This offer is only available at ppi2pass.com. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski | In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but rarely contemplate, including such icons of the everyday as pins, Post-its, and fast-food “clamshell” containers. At the same time, he offers a convincing new theory of technological innovation as a response to the perceived failures of existing products—suggesting that irritation, and not necessity, is the mother of invention. Click to view on Amazon |
 | FORTUNE The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business by Verne Harnish | Here management consultant Verne Harnish, the CEO of Gazelles, and Fortune‘s editors provide the background stories behind the greatest business decisions of all time. In this fully original book, you’ll get a glimpse into the thought processes leading up to these groundbreaking moments and will learn how the decisions have shaped the thinking of today’s top leaders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Out of Rushmore’s Shadow: The Luigi Del Bianco Story – An Italian Immigrant’s Unsung Role as Chief Carver by Lou del Bianco | When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore, his young life is instantly changed. Follow Lou’s journey as he and his Uncle Caesar make the painful discovery that Luigi is not even mentioned in the most definitive book on Rushmore. Cheer them on as you read the historic documents they unearth from the Library of Congress that not only tell Luigi’s story but also prove his great importance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Your Successful Life, The Playbook for Defining and Achieving What Success Means to You by Belinda Gates | This playbook approach prompts you to answer in-depth questions that will provide a plan to achieving your successful life. It s a no-nonsense journey with practical steps to finding clarity, defining your goals, achieving success — and celebrating your accomplishments. Your successful life – it starts now! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best by Richard Koch | By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, you’ll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because you’ll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More by Richard Koch | In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle–the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort–into practice in their personal lives. Now in THE 80/20 MANAGER, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success by Richard Koch | In this essential companion to his bestselling The 80/20 Principle – the radical power law that helped thousands of people achieve more by doing less – Koch illuminates 92 other universal principles and laws to promote the science of success in an increasingly challenging business environment. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost by Deke Castleman | This is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of this rarest of breeds, as well as the highly guarded inner workings of the most money-oriented culture known to man. This third edition includes a Foreword by Anthony Curtis and an extensive update about Las Vegas, the “greening” of gambling, the nightclub and dayclub scenes, the evolving host position, and much more–all in the words of the superhost, Steve Cyr. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins | Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers by Stuart G. Walesh | Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers offers useful ideas on ways in which engineers can more effectively approach the non-technical or “”soft-side”” aspects of working with colleagues, clients, customers, the public, and other stakeholders. Reflecting upon 40 years of engineering and management experience, author Stuart Walesh shares in his often humorous style “”lessons learned”” that will advance your management and leadership skills. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Networking The Skill That the Schools Forgot to Teach What You Need to Know to Get Ahead in Business by Cynthia D’Amour | From starting a conversation with a stranger to working the room with confidence at the next party you attend, Cynthia D’Amour’s Networking: The Skill the Schools Forgot to Teach breaks networking down into a series of simple steps that anyone can learn. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Outrageous Results by Cynthia D’ Amour | The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Outrageous Results will help you get more done with less effort,build a team of dedicated volunteers — and help you achieve outrageous results for your chapter. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Urban Surface Water Management by Stuart G. Walesh | The complete guide to managing the quantity and quality of urban storm water runoff. Focuses on the planning and design of facilities and systems to control flooding, erosion, and non-point source pollution. Explains the practical application of the state-of-the-art in concepts and methods, based on the author’s nearly 20 years’ urban water resources engineering experience in the public and private sectors–and the state-of-the-art of urban surface water management is far ahead of the state-of-the-practice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski | Henry Petroski’s previous bestsellers have delighted readers with intriguing stories about the engineering marvels around us, from the lowly pencil to the soaring suspension bridge. In this book, Petroski delves deeper into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading Leaders by Mickey Addison | “Leading Leaders” is straightforward advice for leaders at all levels on how to be successful. Developed over a 30 year military career and a lifetime of leading, Colonel Mickey Addison lays out the foundation for character-based leadership. Illustrated through personal stories and anecdotes, Leading Leaders is a must read for anyone who wants to improve their productivity and their character. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Five Be’s by Mickey Addison | Don’t read this book unless you want to be healthy and successful! In a world full of “no” and “don’t”, The Five Be’s is a positive vision of who to “Be.” Based on time-tested principles, The Five Be’s is a straightforward road map to living a healthy, fulfilling, and successful life! Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want by Diane Mulcahy | The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Succeeding in it starts with shifting gears to recognize that only you control your future. Next is leveraging your skills, knowledge, and network to create your own career trajectory – one immune to the whims of an employer. Click to view on Amazon |
 | High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove | Grove covers techniques for creating highly productive teams, demonstrating methods of motivation that lead to peak performance—throughout, High Output Management is a practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | LeadershipFlow Perfectly Square: Story About Learning to Lead and Transforming a Company by Croft Edwards | How many times have you read a book about leadership but the next day couldn’t remember, let alone apply, any of the concepts to your real life? Today is a new day. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Vos | Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds | Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields by Traci Nathans-Kelly | Slide Rules is a first-rate guide for practicing engineers, scientists, and technical specialists as well as anyone wishing to develop useful, engaging, and informative technical presentations in order to become an expert communicator. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Flipping the Switch: Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability Using the QBQ! by John G. Miller | In his bestselling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller revealed how personal accountability helps to create opportunity, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination. The result? Stronger organizations, more dynamic teams, and healthier relationships. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I Own It! Building Character Through Personal Accountability by Kristin E. Lindeen | I Own It! Building Character Through Personal Accountability is a 76 page teacher handbook based on the best selling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question by John G. Miller. I Own It! guides teachers through 10-lessons designed to help students discover the incredible value of practicing accountability, responsibility, and ownership at school, home, and work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional by John G. Miller | In this insightful and accessible book John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides readers with ways to integrate them into their own work. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Parenting the QBQ Way, Expanded Edition: How to be an Outstanding Parent and Raise Great Kids Using the Power of Personal Accountability John G. Miller | Based on the same concepts that have made John Miller’s signature work, QBQ: The Question Behind the Question, an international bestseller over the last decade, Parenting the QBQ Way provides the tool called the QBQ or The Question Behind the Question that will help every parent look behind questions such as “Why won’t my kids listen?” or “When will they do what I ask?” to find better ones—QBQs—like “What can I do differently?” or “How can I improve as a parent?” This simple but challenging concept turns the focus – and responsibility – back to parents and to what they can do to make a difference. Click to view on Amazon |
 | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life by John G. Miller | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability. The lack of personal accountability has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization-or individual-can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. Click to view on Amazon |
| Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart by | “Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, “cradle to grave” manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? Click to view on Amazon |
 | Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein | This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its main factory shuts down—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential by John C. Maxwell | #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works and makes it accessible to everyone. Leadership does not come from your title. In fact, being named to a position is only the first and lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than a boss people are required to follow, you must master the ability to inspire and build a team that produces not only results, but also future leaders. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell | Developing the Leader Within You is Dr. Maxwells first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this Christian Leaders Series edition of this Maxwell classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than forty years. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson | Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Elon Musk: Biography of a Self-Made Visionary, Entrepreneur and Billionaire by B Storm | Here is A Preview Of What Elon Musk: Biography of a Self-Made Visionary, Entrepreneur, and Billionaire contains: Who is Elon Musk: A Brief Overview Elon Musk’s Humble Beginnings A comparison between Elon Musk & Tony Stark Zip2 Corporation: Musk’s First Company X.com & PayPal: A New Way of Doing Business SpaceX and the Journey to Mars Tesla Motors: A New Breed of Electric Cars SolarCity: The Potential of Solar-Powered Systems Hyperloop: Going the Distance in Less Time Getting Personal with Elon Musk Elon’s Future And much, much more! Click to view on Amazon |
 | How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by John C. Mawell | A Wall Street Journal bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK is the perfect, compact read for today’s fast-paced world. America’s leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You’ll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You’ll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you’ll clearly see the path to personal success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom by Jonathan Fields | How to Live a Good Life is your antidote—a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of a life well-lived. No need for blind faith or surrender of intelligence. Everything you’ll discover is immediately actionable and subject to validation through your own experience. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell | That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook: Leadership 101. Here the consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell | This third book in John Maxwell’s Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets “used up.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell | Internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better:
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 | The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell | People who desire to lead from the middle of organizations face unique challenges. And they are often held back by myths that prevent them from developing their influence. Dr. Maxwell, one of the globe’s most trusted leadership mentors, debunks the myths, shows you how to overcome the challenges, and teaches you the skills you need to become a 360° leader. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer | Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. THE ART OF ASKING will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Managing The Professional Service Firm by David H. Maister | International expert and consultant David Maister offers a brilliant and accessible guide to every management issue at play in professional firms. Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply many of the management principles developed for product-based industries. Second, professional services are highly personalized, involving the skills of individuals. Such firms must therefore compete not only for clients but also for talented professionals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Engineer to Entrepreneur by Rick Del La Guardia | Starting, managing, and owning an engineering firm can be a daunting experience. Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm provides practical steps at key career points to reach your professional goals in any engineering discipline. Rick De La Guardia leads the aspiring entrepreneur through the process from undergraduate class choices, through first jobs, to opening an office and running a consulting firm. Click to view on Amazon |
 | PE Civil Reference Manual Sixteenth Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg PE | This book features:
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 | Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search by Danny Rubin | In his award-winning guide, communications expert Danny Rubin provides more than 100 email/document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Rubin saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing. Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a perfect resource for people who need to build relationships and grow into careers. It’s also used in high schools, colleges, workforce development programs and even the Pentagon as part of in communications courses for senior-level personnel. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City | Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users―pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. Click to view on Amazon |
 | No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future | Sam Schwartz, America’s most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction | THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION, Third Edition, explores issues of cultural diversity and creativity, presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre, and offers briefer coverage of theatre history. The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today’s screen entertainment. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 24 Assets: Create a Digital, Scalable, Valuable and Fun Business That Will Thrive in a Fast Changing World | 24 Assets provides a method for building a business that becomes a valuable asset. It focuses you on transforming your organization into something scalable, digital, fun, and capable of making an impact. It’s time to stand out, scale up, and build a business that has a life of its own. Start now by listening to this book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works | Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change the way you think, the way you network, and the way you make a living. Successful entrepreneur Daniel Priestley will show you how to embrace the Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the new age. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry | Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunity. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by reading this book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You | In Oversubscribed, entrepreneur and bestselling author Daniel Priestley explains why…and, most importantly, how. This book is a recipe for ensuring demand outstrips supply for your product or service, and you have scores of customers lining up to give you money. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics, Second Edition | Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics is required reading for decision making under conditions of uncertainty. The author describes the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of the subject in a style tailored to meet the needs of students and practitioners of engineering, science, economics, and finance. Drawing on his extensive experience in uncertainty and risk modeling and analysis, the author covers everything from basic theory and key computational algorithms to data needs, sources, and collection. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks and Solutions | Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks, and Solutions analyzes the challenges posed by rising sea levels and climate change. Scientists estimate that global sea levels could rise by as much as 20 feet in this century, directly affecting about 100 million people worldwide. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Richest Man in Babylon | A modern day classic, The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. These famous “Babylonian parables” offer an understanding of – and solution to – a lifetime’s worth of personal financial problems, and holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and earning more money. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Will It Stand Up?: A Professional Engineer’s View of the Creation of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium | Will it Stand Up? Uses the London 2012 Olympic Stadium to demonstrate the seven principles for running successful projects. As well as sharing what went on behind the scenes of this iconic stadium, it provides you with a clear blueprint for improving your own project outcomes. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, developer or contractor, you’ll find this book both entertaining and educational. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution | Beautifully packaged in a graphic, two-color format, Changing the Conversation is written by conflict expert Dana Caspersen and is filled with real-life examples, spot-on advice, and easy-to-grasp exercises that demonstrate transformative ways to break out of destructive patterns, to create useful dialogue in difficult situations, and to find long-lasting solutions for conflicts. Sure to claim its place next to Getting to Yes, this guide will be a go-to resource for resolving conflicts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream | This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest…. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Titan | The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. It is Dreiser’s sequel to The Financier. Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal | Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos | In Smart Collaboration, Heidi K. Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations | Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for “being late”―for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Becoming a Leader | Warren Bennis (1925-2014) was a pioneer in leadership studies, a scholar who advised presidents and business executives alike on how to become successful leaders. On Becoming a Leader is his seminal work, exemplifying Bennis’s core belief that leaders are not born-they are made. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills | This book is designed to help you achieve success in your personal negotiations and in your business transactions. This book, in contrast to others, covers the entire negotiation process in chronological order beginning with your decision to negotiate and continuing through the evaluation of your performance as a negotiator. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book | The core of Winning is devoted to the real “stuff” of work. This main part of the book is split into three sections. The first looks inside the company, from leadership to picking winners to making change happen. The second section looks outside, at the competition, with chapters on strategy, mergers, and Six Sigma, to name just three. The next section of the book is about managing your career—from finding the right job to achieving work-life balance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Zen and the Art of Happiness | Cutting-edge science and spirituality tell us that what we believe, think, and feel actually determine the makeup of our body at the cellular level. In Zen and the Art of Happiness, you will learn how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your life rather than gloominess or depression. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | SPIN Selling | In SPIN Selling, Rackham, who has advised leading companies such as IBM and Honeywell delivers the first book to specifically examine selling high-value product and services. By following the simple, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques of SPIN, readers will be able to dramatically increase their sales volume from major accounts. Rackham answers key questions such as “What makes success in major sales” and “Why do techniques like closing work in small sales but fail in larger ones?” Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation | Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors’ study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Rainmaking Conversations: Influence, Persuade, and Sell in Any Situation | Rainmaking Conversations offers a research-based,field-tested, and practical selling approach that will help youmaster the art of the sales conversation. This proven systemrevolves around the acronym RAIN, which stands for Rapport,Aspirations and Afflictions, Impact, and New Reality. You’ll learnhow to ask your prospects and clients the right questions, and helpthem set the agenda for success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt | The Confidence Gap explains how to: • Free yourself from common misconceptions about what confidence is and how to build it • Transform your relationship with fear and anxiety • Clarify your core values and use them as your inspiration and motivation • Use mindfulness to effectively handle negative thoughts and feelings. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries | Strategic Excellence in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industries is a process of applied strategic thinking designed to develop a strategy empowered with the agility to adapt to changing circumstances and to drive a high performing culture of ideal behaviors. It is infused with the insight and the thought leadership of the Shingo Model and the scientific thinking of Lean Six Sigma. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The History of Tunneling in the United States | This illustrated reference takes readers on a revealing tour of a vital, underappreciated piece of our nation’s infrastructure. This smartly told, beautifully illustrated book, by the construction experts who know the underground world better than anyone, gives tunnels their long-deserved due. This is a story that can only be told by these industry experts who have studied that two-century journey, learned from it, and created the tools and technology needed to improve it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Beneath a Marble Sky brims with action and intrigue befitting an epic era when, alongside continuous war, architecture and its attendant arts reached a pinnacle of perfection. In a splendid debut, John Shors has crafted an immensely readable and well-researched historical novel of surprisingly contemporary relevance. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness The 8th Habit | From Stephen R. Covey comes a profound, compelling, and groundbreaking book of next-level thinking that gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the “Knowledge Worker Age.”In the more than twenty-five years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with more than twenty-five million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most importantly, as individuals, have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey’s classic book. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Million Dollar Consulting | Weiss provides his time-tested model on creating a flourishing consulting business, while incorporating and focusing on the many dynamic changes in solo and boutique consulting, coaching, and entrepreneurship. In addition to guidance on raising capital, attracting clients, and creating a marketing plan, he also gives brand new step-by-step advice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living | Fritjof Capra, bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, here explores another frontier in the human significance of scientific ideas—applying complexity theory to large-scale social interaction. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice | New Jersey’s legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt—the first chief justice of the state’s modern-era Supreme Court—and Frank Hague—legendary mayor of Jersey City. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations | While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different perspective: that meetings matter and they can be mastered. In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids – Second Edition: Creating the Relationship You Want with the Most Important People in Your Life | This book will help parents: – Learn to listen to their children so they feel heard and understood – Understand the human hardwiring behind many relationship problems – Use their conversations to help kids gain the confidence – Create safety and trust . . . and a remarkable relationship that will last forever. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Louder Than Words | In Louder Than Words, thought leader and speaker Bob Kelleher distills vital employee engagement principles, culled from his many years of experience, into ten practical and transformative steps that will help companies maximize employee engagement – the key to capturing discretionary effort. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I-Engage | In this timely and thought-provoking volume, author and engagement expert Bob Kelleher invites individuals and managers alike to expand the conversation about what it means to be truly engaged… as a whole person. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Team of Rivals | Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln’s political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Steve Jobs | Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leonardo da Vinci | The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Click to view on Amazon |
 | Benjamin Franklin | In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Mending Manufacturing: How America Can Manufacture Its Survival | This comprehensive book covers all aspects of the crisis in American manufacturing. The United States is facing a manufacturing emergency, and unless Washington acts swiftly and decisively, the U.S. could plummet into a second-class industrial power. Reveals the history behind the industry’s outsourcing of jobs and production to foreign nations, and questions whether the U.S. can sustain as an economic power without a solid manufacturing base. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition | “[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world. . . . This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | Meditations | Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Radical Candor | Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable.” Click to view on Amazon |
 | First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently | In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial firms. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All | Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. Click to view on Amazon |
 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven nations that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard North America is made up of eleven distinct nations each with its own unique historical roots In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny | With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing | SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process! | Amazon bestselling author Damon Zahariades offers a clear, practical, and easy-to-implement strategy for getting extraordinary results in your life with less action. You’ll learn how to adopt an unconventional mindset that’ll optimize every aspect of your daily experience. And best of all, you’ll enjoy a more rewarding lifestyle while spending less time and effort creating it. Click to view on Amazon |
 | I Ching The Book of Answers: The Profound and Timeless Classic of Universal Wisdom | This revised and expanded edition of Wu Wei’s well-loved version of the I Ching is unparalleled in its clarity, making this the easiest-to-grasp I Ching ever published. The I Ching is a book of answers that miraculously guides us to success in every possible situation. Click to view on Amazon |
 | 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea | Recounting poignant stories from her own life and the lives of many other dedicated 10-10-10 users, Suzy Welch reveals how exploring the impact of our decisions in multiple time frames invariably surfaces our unconscious agendas, fears, needs, and desires — and ultimately helps us identify and live according to our deepest goals and values. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure that the Italians of the South Became “Southerners” (VIA Folios) | Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Marra Rosiglioni. “Pino Aprile’s TERRONI is one of those books that could cause a revolution, albeit a peaceful one, if read by enough people. It could become ‘the spark that starts the fire’ by igniting a sentiment of unity among southern Italians, who are discovering that something is missing in mainstream history books informing how Italy was united 150 years ago.”—Naples Politics Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Old Man and The Sea | The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal — a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True Believers | Building upon her bestseller Selling with Noble Purpose, leadership expert Lisa Earle McLeod tackles the employee engagement crisis by showing leaders how to put workplace meaning front and center. McLeod, whose clients include organizations like Google, Hootsuite, and Roche, asserts that many organizations are unconsciously squandering their greatest asset—their people’s passion. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud | This book shows executives, managers, and aspiring sales leaders how to find your NSP and create a sales force of True Believers who drive revenue and do work that makes them proud. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. 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. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior | In this UPDATED SECOND EDITION (first edition titled “Crucial Confrontations“), you’ll learn how to hold anyone accountable, master performance discussions, and get results. Click to view on Amazon |
 | What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful | Whether you are near the top of the ladder or still have a ways to climb, this book serves as an essential guide to help you eliminate your dysfunctions and move to where you want to go. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Biology of Belief | In this greatly expanded edition, Lipton, a former medical school professor and research scientist, explores his own experiments and those of other leading-edge scientists that have unraveled in ever greater detail how truly connected the mind, body, and spirit are. It is now widely recognized that genes and DNA do not control our biology. Instead, they are controlled by signals from outside the cell, including energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Click to view on Amazon |
 | On Writing | Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The 5 Book: Where Will You be Five Years from Today? | The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years. Let this extraordinary book be your guide and inspiration. Whether you are just graduating from college, newly married, considering a new career, setting goals for retirement, or just looking to inspire a special friend, employee or family member, here’s the most inspiring and compelling gift you can find. Click to view on Amazon |
 | She Engineers: Outsmart Bias, Unlock Your Potential, and Create the Engineering Career of your Dreams | Imagine a life where YOU choose your own career path. You love what you do. You are an influencer, a go-to person at your company and in your field. You aren’t working ridiculous hours. You have a life outside of work. You may even have a couple of young children if you so choose, while still enjoying a well-paying, impactful career in engineering. Sound like a pipe dream? It’s not. This book will show you how. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Starting a New Job: Career Planning and Job Promotion Tactics for Motivated New Employees | This incredible resource will enable you to develop highly effective strategies for success in your performance at work and help you create a one year plan to meet your career goals, impress your supervisors, leverage relationships with co-workers and continue your personal development. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dale Carnegie’s Golden Book | A plethora of golden tips will set you on the path toward unimagined success. Put these tips in to action to excel as a leader and become the best version of yourself. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Reversing Burnout: How to Immediately Engage Top Talent and Grow! | The life most of us experience today is much different than the past. The realities of work and life have changed rapidly, and our busyness has made matters worse. Professional burnout and entrepreneurial burnout as well as diminishing employee engagement are costing us and our organizations and creating fewer winners at work and in life. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More | Koch takes the widely renowned 80/20 principle and shows how in today’s cluttered and stressful world, working out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us those things, leads to increased happiness and greater success. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Story of B | The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn’s provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Click to view on Amazon |
 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk | The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) with a new foreword—and available as an ebook for the first time—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Business of Engineering: A New Mindset for the Engineer of the Future | Problem solving is the key to success in both engineering and business. If you are either an entrepreneur looking for a unique approach to business or an engineer searching for a way to advance your career, this book is for you. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Road Ahead | Within this context in The Road Ahead, Bill Gates is optimistic and remarkably prescient about how important the Internet will be. He predicts that the Internet is a revolutionary paradigm change in zero-cost information handling, that this will spur development of groundbreaking applications, and that virtuous cycles will kick off revolutions in many industries. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dynamics of Software Development | Shipping great software can be done, insists McCarthy, and charts, in five sections, the progress from initial design to successful product. McCarthy is a software industry veteran and the director of the Microsoft Visual C++ development group. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRs | Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical-thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this audiobook provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be | In this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we’ve told ourselves so often we don’t even hear them anymore. With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed and unworthy, and reveals the specific practical strategies that helped her move past them. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts | Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Dynamic People Skills | In Dynamic People Skils, you will learn practical insights about how to: develop dynamic relationships stay movtivated overcome rejection understand who you are build a powerful marriage and more! Click to view on Amazon |
 | Keen on Retirement: Engineering the Second Half of Your Life | In Keen on Retirement, Bill Keen shares insights from more than 15,000 client meetings across a twenty-seven year career to help you approach retirement with peace of mind. In addition to walking you through the steps of building a dynamic retirement financial plan, Bill tackles the psychological and emotional challenges associated with retirement. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story | In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating—and sorely necessary—new science of women. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Turn the Ship Around! | Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have been inspired by former Navy captain David Marquet’s true story. Many have applied his insights to their own organizations, creating workplaces where everyone takes responsibility for his or her actions, where followers grow to become leaders, and where happier teams drive dramatically better results. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Permission to Screw Up | Permission to Screw Up dismisses the idea that leaders and organizations should try to be perfect. It encourages people of all ages to go for it and learn to lead by acting, rather than waiting or thinking. Through a brutally honest and often hilarious account of her own struggles, Kristen encourages us to embrace our failures and proves that we’ll be better leaders when we do. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization | Tribal Leadership shows leaders how to assess, identify, and upgrade their tribes’ cultures, one stage at a time. The result is an organization that can thrive in any economy. Click to view on Amazon |
 | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things | Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot-air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly”.Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy | A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business | In Traction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses—and you can too. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Influence of Military Strategies to Business | This military-based guide to business takes the best wartime tactics and practices and teaches you how you can apply them in your business—and your personal life—successfully. With its systematic and comprehensive framework, this book utilizes the art of war in a whole new way and reveals that the path to a smooth business victory can be found in an unexpected but rewarding place. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Structural Design for Physical Security: State of the Practice | After the bombing of the WTC guidance was needed in the private sector for design of civil structures to resist the effects of bombing. This Report is the first transfer of security technology to the civil sector, and provides complete methods, guidance and references for structural engineers challenged with a physical security problem. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Blast Protection of Buildings (ASCE/SEI 59-11) | Blast Protection of Buildings provides minimum requirements for planning, design, construction, and assessment of new and existing buildings subject to the effects of accidental or malicious explosions. The Standard includes principles for establishing appropriate threat parameters, levels of protection, loadings, analysis methodologies, materials, detailing, and test procedures. Click to view on Amazon |
 | People Skills for Engineers | Most engineers do not receive adequate people skills training in school or on the job. As a result, many engineers are grossly under prepared to face the interpersonal challenges they inevitably encounter while working alongside other engineers and engineering managers. People Skills for Engineers was created specifically to fill this training gap. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Trusted Advisor | Bestselling author David Maister teams up with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford to bring us the essential tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors. Click to view on Amazon |
 | True Professionalism: The Courage to Care about Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career | David Maister, the world’s premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges professionals to examine this essential, yet under-addressed question: What is true professionalism? Click to view on Amazon |
 | A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)–Sixth Edition | The PMBOK® Guide–Sixth Edition – PMI’s flagship publication has been updated to reflect the latest good practices in project management. New to the Sixth Edition, each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in project settings. It will also contain more emphasis on strategic and business knowledge—including discussion of project management business documents—and information on the PMI Talent Triangle™ and the essential skills for success in today’s market. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It | This first full revision of the book since its initial publication in 1993 features new case studies from around the world, fully updated data and research, and a streamlined format. Written by the premier leadership experts working today, Credibility:
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 | Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success By Being Yourself | Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities – all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?Don’t panic. Here are the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles – thinkers and feelers – and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Singletasking: Get More Done—One Thing at a Time | Zack’s convincing neuroscientific evidence to prove that you really can’t do more by trying to tackle several things at once—it’s an illusion. There is a better way to deal with all the information and interruptions that bombard us today. Singletasking explains exactly how to clear and calm your mind, arrange your schedule and environment, and gently yet firmly manage the expectations of people around you so that you can accomplish a succession of tasks, one by one—and be infinitely more productive. Singletasking is the secret to success and sanity. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected | Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and successful consultant who gives presentations to thousands of people at dozens of events annually, feels your pain. She found that other networking books assume that to succeed, you have to act like an extrovert. Not at all. There is another way. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Surfing the Edge of Chaos Laws of Nature & the New Laws of Business | Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature — two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pillars of the Earth | “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. Click to view on Amazon |
 | Palaces for the People | In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Click to view on Amazon |
 | The Pumpkin Plan | Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field. Click to view on Amazon |
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