Mine (they were read in this order, and I have left off many that weren't as good):
Zero to One, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Snowball, The Outsiders (8 CEOs, not the fiction novel), Sapiens, Principles by Ray Dalio, Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, The Road to Character
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#2Art of the Deal
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#3Reading it now, so that technically counts.
"Say this not that." by Carl Alasko
I've gone through a metric shit ton pile of self help and relationship help books in my time. But I think this one, while it repeats some well worn wisdom, it presents them in a concrete enough way that the advice is finally gaining traction in my own head. I think the key is that it presents the advice in real world vignettes as both bad and good idea formats. Like that bone guy on Animaniacs.
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#4My answer to a recent similar but tech oriented question:
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#5Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
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#6https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/ and http://hpmor.com/ gave me a great model of how to plan and think about difficult issues. Excellent (and very long, each one is the length of 5+ books) primers on rationality.
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#7Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday. It's Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" for the social media age.
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#8The War of Art | Steven Pressfield
May have turned me into a workaholic though...
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#9Positive Intelligence. I was able to "label" my personality and all of those of my teams and reports. I know how I need to change, and know what drives the people I work with. I never thought of the over achiever as a problem, but they "prevent" others from stepping up.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0. Much easier read than the original. We are humans, driven by emotion, we need to be smart about it.
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#10The goal. I was really surprised by the number of new insights I had, even after reading the Phoenix project multiple times.