Personal Growth Reading
Most of my reading lately has been for personal growth and focused on leadership and change. Not all of it is actually reading as I have a 2+ hour commute.
Books
Leading Change by John P. Kotter
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team by John C. Maxwell
Developing The Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
Audio
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Unabridged)
Malcolm Gladwell
Working With You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work
Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell
Negotiate Smart: The Secrets of Successful Negotiation
Julian Fleisher
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
Crucial Confrontations
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Unabridged)
Dale Carnegie
[...] I have been working for some time on getting my organization to adopt TDD. I began with manipulation. That did not work, yet I remember it working so well for the characters in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. In an effort to find a better way I read How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. This book helped me to begin to see that to influence people they must feel that you genuinely care about them. I read many other books along these lines as I have listed in Personal Growth Reading and More Personal Growth Reading. Recently I have been researching other aspects of how to instigate adoption of TDD. Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means offer information on how to spread an idea. [...]