Recommended Books

Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World

Organizing for Dummies

Management

First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently

Now, Discover Your Strengths

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials)

Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning

Non-Profit Management

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

Managing the Nonprofit Organization

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Marketing

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Unleashing the Ideavirus

Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

Leadership

The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success

Economics

Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Career

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?)

48 Days to the Work You Love

How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors

Communication

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Education

The Schools We Need: And Why We Don’t Have Them

Theology

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Knowing God

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine

Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics