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Recommended Books

Productivity

  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • First Things First
  • 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

Executive Management

  • 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

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We help you do work that changes the world. We believe this is possible when you reflect the gospel in your work. So here you’ll find resources and training to help you lead, create, and get things done. To do work that matters, and do it better — for the glory of God and flourishing of society.

We call it gospel-driven productivity, and it’s the path to finding the deepest possible meaning in your work and the path to greatest effectiveness.

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About Matt Perman

Matt Perman started What’s Best Next in 2008 as a blog on God-centered productivity. It has now become an organization dedicated to helping you do work that matters.

Matt is the author of What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done and a frequent speaker on leadership and productivity from a gospel-driven perspective. He has led the website teams at Desiring God and Made to Flourish, and is now director of career development at The King’s College NYC. He lives in Manhattan.

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