10 of my favorite books in 2021

Success for me was when I could afford to build my own curated library of books. 2021 was the year of empowering others from sellers to leaders to help them achieve the goals in ways which scale and create biggest impact on business in short period of time. Throughout the year I was looking hard for books which will help me stand on the shoulders of giants. Help me adopt growth best practices that transcends the bottom line of company and improves overall the technology communities. Exploring questions like - How can leaders help their people develop and re-skill where necessary? How can people not just avoid pandemic burn out but restore, renew, and replenish their work, career and life? These questions were top-of-mind while I read new books looking for new insights and learnings.

For making it simple I am dividing these books into Five categories- #Leadership, #Business, #Growth, #Investing, and #Sales. Here are my 10 of favorite reads in 2021.

#Leadership

1. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger

In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership.

2. Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled leaders to surmount uncommon hardships. At moments of great challenge, how you can summon talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

#Business

3. The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism by Hubert Joly

?An Enchanting story and the philosophy behind the resurgence of Best Buy: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can blossom, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal.

4. Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston

A look at how businesses can profit by fixing the world’s problems instead of creating them, from a former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston . They reveal, for the first time, key lessons from Unilever and other pioneering companies around the world about how you can profit by fixing the world's problems instead of creating them. To thrive today and tomorrow, they argue, companies must become "net positive"—giving more to the world than they take

#Growth

5. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

It’s a love letter.?To life. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

6. The Perfect Day to Boss UP: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire by Rick Ross

A captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marble, no matter what obstacles stand in the way. A road map to to build your own empire by turning your ambition into action and failures into successes.

#Invest

7. Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green?

The most successful investors are mavericks and iconoclasts who question conventional wisdom and profit vastly from their ability to think more rationally, rigorously, and objectively. They are master game players who consciously maximize their odds of long-term success in markets and life, while also minimizing any risk of catastrophe.

8. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel

19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

#Sales

9. The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO by John McMahon

A must-read for sales reps and leaders alike, especially those in the Enterprise SaaS space. John McMahon artfully weaved sales fundamentals, creative coaching, and personal analogies into a book.

10. Whatever It Takes: Master the Habits to Transform Your Business, Relationships, and Life by Brandon Bornancin

In this no-nonsense guide to success, you’ll learn the empowering beliefs and transformative habits needed to achieve all that you want in business and in life.You’ll discover the secrets of wildly successful people – how they think, what they say, and what they do to make their dreams come true so that you can too!