A Book a Day Challenge

In mid October, with 80 days left in 2021, I set myself a challenge of reading a book each day until the end of the year. Here is the list so far along with my ratings. (And yes that is an actual photo of one of my bookshelves in my office)

1. Raving Fans, A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, ????

2. The Advantage, Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, by Patrick Lencioni, ????????

3. Selling to Zebras, How to Close 90% of the Business You Pursue Faster,More Easily, and More Profitably, by Jeff Koser Chad Koser, ????????

4. Start with Why, How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek, ????????

5. Reality Check, The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition, by Guy Kawasaki, ????

6. One Big Thing, Discovering What You Were Born to Do, by Phil Cooke, ??

7. Leadership and the Art of Struggle, How Great Leaders Grow through CHALLENGE and ADVERSITY, by Steven Snyder, ??????

8. No More Excuses, The Five Accountabilities for Personal and Organizational Growth, by Sam Silverstein, ????

9. What Really Works, The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, by William Joyce, Nitin Nohria and Bruce Roberson, ????????

10. The New One Minute Manager, Based on the All-Time # 1 Bestseller on Managing Your Work and Life, by Ken Blanchard Spencer Johnson, ????

11. Leadership and the One Minute Manager, Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership? II, by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi, ??????

12. The Shift Ahead, How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World, by Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel, ??

13. Traction, Get a Grip on Your Business, by Gino Wickman, ????????

14. The Lost Art of Connecting, The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships, by Susan McPherson with Jackie Ashton, ??????

15. 10 Disciplines for Managing & Maximizing Your Energy, Bonus Mini-Book, by Gino Wickman, ??????

16. Range, Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein, ????

17. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership, How to Make a Difference Regardless of Your Title, Role, or Authority, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, ????????

18. Ask for More, 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything, by Alexandra Carter, ??????

19. The Core Value Equation, A Framework to Drive Results, Create Limitless Scale, and Win the War for Talent, by Darius Mirshahzadeh, ??

20. Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, ????????

21. To-Do List Formula, A Stress-Free Guide to Creating To-Do Lists That Work!, by Damon Zahariades, ????

22. Accountability, The Key to Driving a High-Performance Culture, by Greg Bustin, ????????

23. Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink, ??????????

24. Flux, 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change, by April Rinne, ????

25. Legendary Service, The Key is to Care, by Ken Blanchard, Kathy Cuff, and Vicki Halsey, ??????

26. Agile Selling, Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's Ever-Changing Sales World, by Jill Konrath, ??????

27. Fix This Next, Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business, by Mike Michalowicz, ????????

28. Atomic Habits, An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear, ??

29. NO!, How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life, by Jana Kemp, ??????

30. New Sales Simplified, The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development, by Mike Weinberg, ????????

31. Sales Management Simplified, The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team, by Mike Weinberg ??????

32. Wooden on Leadership, by John Wooden and Steve Jamison, ??????

33. Clockwork, Design Your Business to Run Itself, by Mike Michalowicz, ????

34. A CEO Only Does Three Things, Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite, by Trey Taylor, ??????

35. Good to Great, Why some companies make the leap… and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins, ????????

36. The Motive, A Leadership Fable: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities, by Patrick Lencioni, ????????

37. Managing for Happiness, Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team, by Jurgen Appelo, ??????

38. How to Sell in Place, Closing Deals in the New Normal, by Tom Searcy and Carajane Moore, ??????

39. Life Long Learning, Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet, by Michelle R. Weise, ??

40. Thing Explainer, Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, Randall Munroe, ??????

41. The Language of Leadership, How to Engage and Inspire Your Team, by Joel Schwartzberg, ????

42. Change Your World, How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference, by John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins, ????

43. Return on Ambition, A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being, by Nicolai Tillisch and Nicolai Chen Nielsen, ????

44.?The Power of Thanks,?How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work, by Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine, ????

45.?How Not to be Wrong,?The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg, ????????

46.?Courageous Cultures,?How to build teams of micro-innovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates, by Karin Hurt and David Dye, ????

47.?How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid,?The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking, by Franck Frommer, ????

48.?The Next Rules of Work,?The Mindset, Skillset and Toolset to Lead Your Organization through Uncertainty, by Gary Bolles, ??????

49. Embrace the Suck, The Navy Seal Way to an Extraordinary Life, by Brent Gleeson, ??????????

50. Lead. Care. Win., How to Become a Leader Who Matters, by Dan Pontefract, ??????

51. The Burnout Fix, Overcome Overwhelm, Beat Busy, and Sustain Success in the New World of Work, by Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, ????

52. Passion Purpose Profit, 9 Keys to Building an Authentic Executive Coaching Business, by Donna Karaba, ????

53. Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, by Ken Blanchard, ????????

54. The Secret History of Food, Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat, by Matt Siegel, ????

55. The Laws of Simplicity”, by John Maeda, ??????

56. The Mind of the Strategist, The Art of Japanese Business, by Kenichi Ohmae, ????

57. All In, How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary, Robert Bruce Shaw, ????

58. Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment, by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein, ??

59. The Rumble Zone, Leadership Strategies in the Rough & Tumble of Change, by Jim Boneau, ??

60. The Simplicity Principle, Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World, by Julia Hobsbawm and Kogan Page, ??????

61. The Creator Mindset, 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability, by Nir Bashan, ????

62. Irrational Loyalty, Building a Brand That Thrives in Turbulent Times, by Deb Gabor, ??????

63. Redefining HR, Transforming People Teams to Drive Business Performance, Lars Schmidt and?Kogan Page, ??????

64. Leadership U, Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve, by Gary Burnison, ??????

65. The Creative Thinking Handbook, Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business, by Chris Griffiths, ????

66. The Motivation Myth, How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win, by Jeff Haden, ????

67. Predictive HR Analytics, Mastering the HR Metric, by Kirsten Edwards and Dr. Martin Edwards, ????

68. The Machine, A?Radical Approach to the Design of the Sales Function, by Justin Roff-Marsh, ????????

69. Math with Bad Drawings, Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality, by Ben Orlin,??????

70. Flip Your Classroom, Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, ????

71. Free to Choose, A Personal Statement, by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, ????????

72. Changing on the Job, Developing Leaders for a Complex World, by Jennifer Garvey Berger, ??????

73. A Field Guide to American Houses, The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture, by Virginia Savage McAlester, ??????

74. The Bible

75. The Fifth Discipline, The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge, ????????

76. The Goal, A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu Goldratt, ????????

77. Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, ??????

78. Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, ??????

79. Law, Legislation and Liberty, A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy, by Friedrich A. Hayek, ??????

80. There's Treasure Everywhere, A Calvin and Hobbes Collection, by Bill Waterson, ????????

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