Personal Development – The Books I Read in 2012

1. Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble and Indra K. Nooyi
2. I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life by Joel Osteen
3. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Michael by Michael J. Sandel
4. The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen
5. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Feud
6. The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life by Lee Eienberg
7. Your Right to Be Rich (Think and Grow Rich) by Napoleon Hill
8. 7 Safety Habits That Could Save Your Life by Wilson Bateman
9. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
10. Out Of The Box: More Skills for Developing Your Own Career Path by Mark Hansen
11. Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell
12. Paid To Speak: Best Practices For Building A Successful Speaking Business by National Speakers Association
13. Leadership By Example: The Ten Key Principles of All Great Leaders by Dr. Sanjiv Chopra with David Fisher
14. SEAL Team Six Outcasts by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
15. Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
16. Million Dollar Referrals: The Secrets to Building a Perpetual Client List to Generate a Seven-Figure Income by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.
17. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
18. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
19. Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World by Craig Groeschel
20. StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution by Marcus Buckingham
21. The 7 Habits for Managers: Managing Yourself, Leading Others, Unleashing Potential by Stephen R. Covey
22. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
23. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy by Harvard Business Review
24. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
25. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon
26. Failing Forward: Turing Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell
27. Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki
28. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs
29. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
30. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
31. The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life’s Most Difficult Problems by Stephen R. Covey
32. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
33. Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work by John C. Maxwell
34. Back to Work: We Need Smart Government for a Smart Economy by Bill Clinton
35. Surviving A Shark Attack on Land (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
36. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
37. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently by John C. Maxwell
38. Million Dollar Consulting Proposals: How to Write a Proposal That’s Accepted Every Time by Alan Weiss
39. EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey
40. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World by Frederick F. Reichheld and Rob Markey
41. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
42. 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential by John C. Maxwell
43. The Simple Truths of Appreciation: How each of us can choose to make a difference by Barbara A. Glanz
44. The Phoenix Philosophy: Rise to Success, Even from the Ashes of Defeat by Mikeal R. Morgan
45. 9 Things a Leader Must Do: Breaking Through to the Next Level by Dr. Henry Cloud
46. Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
47. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
48. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life by John G. Miller

Happy reading, Shawn M. Galloway www.ShawnGalloway.com