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Thursday Jan 01, 2015
The 46 Books I Read in 2014
Thursday Jan 01, 2015
Thursday Jan 01, 2015
January 2014
1. Twenty Things You Need To Know by Donald J. Wheeler
2. Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler
3. "I Love You More Than My Dog": Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad by Jeanne Bliss
4. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
5. Managers as Mentors, Third Edition: Building Partnerships for Learning by Chip R Bell and Marshall Goldsmith
6. Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
February 2014
7. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
8. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson
9. The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
March 2014
10. Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders by Jason Jennings
11. Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity by Luc De Brabandere and Alan Iny
12. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
April 2014
13. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business by Duff McDonald
14. Our Emperors Have No Clothes: Incredibly stupid things corporate executives have done while reengineering, restructuring, downsizing, TQM’ing, team-building, and empowering… in order to cover their ifs, ands or “buts.” by Alan Weiss
15. Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss by David Cottrell
16. Memories of a Jewish Childhood by Harriet Ottenstein
17. The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life by Rick Pitino and Eric Crawford
18. HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees by Harvard Business Review
May 2014
19. It’s What We Do Together That Counts: The BIC Alliance Story by Earl Heard
20. HBR Guide to Office Politics: Level the field, Rise above rivalry, Avoid power games by Harvard Business Review
21. Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark
July 2014
22. The Deming Management Method by Mary Walton
23. The new Porsche Macan. Life, Intensified by Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
August 2014
25. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
26. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
27. Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal, and Accelerate Your Success with Motivational DNA by Tamara Lowe
September 2014
28. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
29. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds by Carmine Gallo
30. The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts Hardcover by Stanley Bing
31. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
32. The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow by Mark Miller
33. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran
October 2014
34. Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights by Gary Klein
35. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
36. Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley
37. This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
November 2014
38. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
39. Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao
40. What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan
December 2014
41. Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation by Adam Bryant and Jeff Gurner
42. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
43. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
44. The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
45. The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh
46. Choose Yourself!: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream By James Altucher
And of course please consider adding our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence (Mathis, Galloway) to your reading list! – www.STEPStoSafetyCultureExcellence.com
Happy reading!
Shawn M. Galloway