Personal Development – The Books I Read in 2013

1. Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston, M.D.
2. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
3. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
4. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5. What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed Reading People
6. The Charge: Activating The 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive by Brendon Burchard
7. The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers by Phil Rosenzweig
8. On China by Henry Kissinger
9. Selling the Invisible: A field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith
10. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick M. Lencioni
11. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
12. Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversations, Second Edition
13. Justice: What’s The Right Thing to Do? By Michael J. Sandel
14. Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story
15. Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change by Timothy D. Wilson
16. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
17. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
18. Breakthrough Management: Principles, Skills and Patterns for Transformational Leadership by Shoji Shiba and David Walden
19. The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset by John C. Maxwell
20. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
21. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Hartford
22. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Live and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
23. Rags To Riches: How Corporate Culture Spawned A Great Company by Richard T. Farmer with William Holstein
24. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta
25. The Spirit Is The Difference by Richard T. Farmer
26. The Executive’s Guide to Consultants: How to Find, Hire and Get Great Results from Outside Experts by David Fields
27. All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
28. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Johan Berger
29. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham
30. The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies to Achieve Success by Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske with Liz Neporent
31. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch and Richard Aspel
32. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
33. Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns Ph.D.
34. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
35. True Tales of the Texas Frontier: Eight Centuries of Adventure And Surprise by C. Herndon Williams
36. The Porsche Principle by Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche AG
37. The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
38. HBR Guide to Better Business Writing by Bryan A. Garner
39. Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change by Jason Jennings
40. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman
41. Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don’t by Donald J. Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki
42. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope by John A. Allison
43. Motivate and Reward: Performance Appraisal and Incentive Systems for Business Success by Herwig Kressler
44. Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Harley Manning, Kerry Bodine and Josh Bernoff
45. Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
46. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore
47. Corpus RIOS: The how and what of business strategy by Christopher J. Tipler
48. The Zero Index by Colin Duncan
49. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt
50. The World of GUINNESS by Rory Guinness
51. The Manager’s Guide to Workplace Safety by R. Scott Stricoff and Donald R. Groover
52. The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
53. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
54. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin

And of course please consider adding our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence (WILEY, 2013) to your reading list! – www.STEPStoSafetyCultureExcellence.com

Happy reading!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.