Self-Help

What’s on Your Reading List?

There are a lot of things I can fill my head with, and very few amount to more than nothing.  Instead, I came up with the reading list below.  I’ve broken down my reading list into categories that I’m interested in.  I’ve categorized them and ordered them based on the value I got from them.

If you are interested in making a reading list, here’s how I came up with mine.  I know a few authors I really like, and I know a few categories of books I am interested in.  So I trolled Amazon Books for a couple of hours looking for books with high, and many, ratings.  I also looked at what “other customers looked at…” at the bottom of the amazon book page I was interested in, to see what others were reading.  And that’s how I got my reading list.

NOTE: Clicking the book covers below will take you directly to Amazon.com where you purchase one if you would like.

Data Strategy Reading List

Personal Growth

Strategy

  1. The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance
  2. The Phoenix Project
  3. Getting in Front of Data
  4. Infonomics: How to monetize, manage, and measure information as an asset for competitive advantage
  5. Strategy in Action: Marying Planning, People, and Performance
  6. HBRS 10 must reads on strategy
  7. The Lean Startup

Consulting

  • Getting started in Consulting (Alan Weiss)
  • The Consulting Bible (Alan Weiss)
  • The Irresistable Consultant’s Guide to winning clients: 6 steps to unlimited clients and financial freedom
  • Flawless Consulting: A guide to getting your expertise used
  • Case Interview Secrets: A former McKinsey interviewer reveals how to get multiple job offers in consulting

Entrepreneur

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Peter Drucker)
  • Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 steps to a successful startup
  • The Purpose of Profit: The truth about starting a building your own business

Marketing

  1. Contagious: Why things catch on
  2. The 1 Page Marketing Plan: Get new customers…
  3. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate them at your own risk
  4. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
  5. All Marketers Tell Stories
  6. Building a Story Brand: Clarify your message so customers will listen

Leadership Reading List

Healthcare

Keep developing your intellect.  Reading is one way I approach personal development.  Check out other practical ways to develop your intellect.

Do you have suggestions to add to my reading list?  Or do you want to share what you learned in one of the books above?  Comment below.

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