Recommended Reading

Laszlo Bock, Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (New York: Twelve, 2015).

Lyle E. Bourne Jr. and Alice F. Healy, Train Your Mind for Peak Performance: A Science-Based Approach for Achieving Your Goals (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2013).

David Brooks, The Road to Character (New York: Random House, 2015).

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (New York: Avery, 2012).

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014).

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: Norton, 2014).

Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (New York: Crown, 2012).

Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (New York: Random House, 2014).

Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, 10th rev. ed. (New York: HarperBusiness, 2004).

Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley, The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them (New York: Hudson Street, 2012).

Jane E. Dutton, Energize Your Workplace: How to Create and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003).

Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Ballantine, 2006).

Amy C. Edmondson, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014).

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).

Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (New York: Basic, 2015).

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive (New York: Crown, 2009).

Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (New York: Hyperion, 2007).

Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (New York: Viking, 2016).

Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (New York: Crown Business, 2013).

Edward D. Hess, Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

William Isaacs, Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together (New York: Crown Business, 1999).

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2012).

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).

David Kelley and Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All (London: William Collins, 2015).

Gary Klein, Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013).

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Walter Mischel, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (New York: Little, Brown, 2014).

Richard Paul and Linda Elder, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2014).

Bernard Roth, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2015).

R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Edgar H. Schein, Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2016).

———, Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013).

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenthal, How Google Works (New York: Grand Central, 2014).

Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (New York: Crown, 2015).

Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003).

Tony Wagner, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (New York: Scribner, 2015).

Mark Williams and Danny Penman, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (New York: Rodale, 2011).