non-negotiables. You’ll be in fine company.
Who's
interesting?
What's
read-worthy?
Who's interesting?
It’s important to stay on top of whose staying on top of things. These are a few of
the people/businesses we who inspire us.
- Susie Bedsow Horgan of Get a Life
-Thomas Crum of Aiki Works
What's read-worthy?
Some of the best and brightest have committed their thinking to paper. We read them and
we thank them.
BUSINESS STRATEGIES
"The Go Giver" by Bob Burg & John David Mann
A little Story About A Powerful business Idea. David Bach says, “Not since ‘Who Moved My cheese?’ have I enjoyed a parable as much as this. You owe it to yourself to read ‘The Go Giver’ and share its message with those who matter most to you. It is a beautiful book that will touch your soul and inspire your heart.
"A Whole New Mind (Why right-brainers will rule the future)" by Daniel Pink
Drawing on research from around the world, Daniel Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment – and reveals how to master them. From a laughter club in Bombay, to an inner city high school devoted to design, to a lesson on how to detect an insincere smile, "A Whole New Mind" takes readers to a daring new place, and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.
"Blue Ocean Strategy (How to Create Uncontested Market Space
and Make the Competition Irrelevant)" by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
"Blue Ocean Strategies" provides a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant. In this frame-changing book, (the authors) present a proven analytical framework and the tools for successfully creating and capturing blue oceans. Examining a wide range of strategic moves across a host of industries, "Blue Ocean Strategy" highlights the six principles that every company can use to successfully formulate and execute blue ocean strategies. The six principles show how to reconstruct market boundaries, focus on the big picture, reach beyond existing demand, get the strategic sequence right, over come organizational hurdles, and build execution into strategy.
The Elements of Persuasion (Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster & Win More Business) by Richard Maxwell & Robert Dickman
“Every great leader is a great storyteller” says Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner. According to master storytellers Robert Dickman and Richard Maxwell, storytelling is a lot like running. Everyone knows how to do it but few of us ever break a four minute mile. What separates the great runners from the rest? The greats know not only how to hit every stride, but how every muscle fits together in that stride so that no effort is wasted and their goals are achieved. World class runners know how to run from the inside out. World-class leaders know how to tell a story from the inside out.
"10 Rules for Strategic Innovators (From Idea to Execution)"
by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
In "Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators", Govindarajan and Trimble reveal where firms go wrong on their journey from idea to execution – and outline exactly what it takes to build a breakthrough business while sustaining excellence in an existing one.
The authors illustrate ten rules to help organizations meet these challenges, and show how firms must rewire their “Organizational DNA” across four main areas – staffing, structure, systems and culture – in order for a promising new venture to succeed. They also spell out the critical role senior executives must play in managing the inevitable tensions that arise between today’s business and tomorrow’s.
Breakthrough growth opportunities can make or break companies and careers. "Ten rules for Strategic Innovators" is every leader’s guide to execution in unexplored territory.
INNER WORK…
"The Magic of Conflict" by Thomas Crum
Read Tom's remarkable bestseller and gain a deeper understanding of conflict and personal growth. Learn how conflicts don't have to equal contests. Also read all about The Discovery Process, an exceptional tool for living with reduced stress and increased excitement.
"Three Deep Breaths" by Thomas Crum
"Three Deep Breaths" provides a simple technique that you can use no matter how busy you are, to transform tough situations into positive, energizing experiences. It is a mind/body technique that combines the ”cognitive-restructuring” capability of the brain (the ability to change our attitudes and perceptions of the world) with the calmness and presence of an aligned, centered state of being.
Thomas Crum illustrates this radically simple technique through the story of Angus, who is struggling to break through the negative habits that lead to anger, exhaustion, and poor performance. By working with our breath, by being aware of it and using it as a focusing tool, we can open up a whole new world of possibility.
"Journey To Center" by Thomas Crum
This book by Tom Crum features humorous and poignant stories on the exploration of centered and uncentered states. Whether in Southeast Asia or his backyard in Aspen, Tom finds adventures that constantly amaze, entertain, and enlighten.
"Taming Your Gremlins" by Rick Carson
This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining inner freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom, the Zen Theory of Change, and sound psychology in an easy-to-understand, unique, and practical system for banishing the nemesis within.
"Loving What Is (Four Questions that can change your life)" by Byron Katie
This book will show you step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You’ll see people do “The Work” with Katie on a broad range of human problems, in their relationships, at work, and on their deepest anxieties and fears. Once they have done “The Work”, they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.
"Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting
(The astonishing power of feelings)" by Lynn Grabhorn
This book asks you to stop second-guessing yourself and start believing in what you can achieve through the power of positive feelings. Have you ever been so wrapped up in day-to-day life that you stop paying attention to how you’re feeling? Something goes wrong and you blame other people. The key to getting back on the right track is simple: focus inward, on what it would feel like to have it all go right, and it will.
"Breakdown, BREAKTHROUGH (The professional woman’s guide to claiming a life of PASSION, POWER and PURPOSE" by Kathy Caprino
Thousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they’ve sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, balance, and joy in their lives to achieve career success. "Breakdown, Breakthrough" shows how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life vision as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment.
"Something More – Excavating Your Authentic Self" by Sarah Ban Breathnach
In this eloquent and evocative book, Sarah Ban Breathnach encourages you to become an archaeologist of yourself: to delve into your past, to “excavate” the authentic woman buried inside.
Uncovering your true self will be challenging, but exhilarating. Assisting your personal “dig” will be insights of celebrated and unknown women from Sarah herself. As you unravel your own mystery and recover the joy that has been missing from your life, you will experience small but exquisite epiphanies that will help you make peace with your past and reveal exciting new opportunities for your future.
"Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching. In this book, he has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world, This work contains all 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of then of the most well-respected translations of the text, which has survived for more than 25 centuries. Each of the 812 chapters is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today and concludes with a section called “Do the Tao Now.”