We have found it useful to capture notes of books read on
communications, thinking, professional development, vulnerability
and Learning in files. It is helpful for recall and for aiding forgetting
(I can forget facts, stories and ideas, since I know where I can find a
file on them.).
Above are links to the first three lists.
John Casey, Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction, WW Norton
and Company, NY 2014
Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath, Little Brown and Company NY
2013
Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable– Who Survives When Disaster
Strikes and Why, Crown Publishers, NY, 2008
Carmine Gallo, Talk Like TED: 9 Public speaking Secrets of the
World’s Top Minds, St, Martins Press, NY 2014
Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less,
Crown Publishing 2014
William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the
American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, Free Press, 2014
Mark Forsyth, Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden
connections of the English Language, Berkeley Books, 2011
Mark Goulston, Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through
to Absolutely Anyone, American Management Association, NY, 2010
Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in
the End, Metropolitan Books, NY, 2014
John Lanchester, How to Speak Money– What the money People Say–
and What it Really Means, Norton & Company, NY, 2014
David Pogue, Pogue’s Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (that no
one bothers to tell you for simplifying the technology in your life),
Flatiron Books, 2014
Benedict Carey, How We learn: the Surprising Truth about When
Where and Why it Happens RandomHouse, NY 2014
Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose
Your mind and Create a New One, Hay House, Carlsbad, 2012
Brene Brown, Daring Greatly: How the courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Gotham Books,
2012
Liz Wiseman, Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the
New Game of Work, HarperCollins, 2014
Jim Davies, Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make us Laugh,
Movies Make us Cry and Religion Makes us Feel One with the
Universe, PalGrave Macmillan, 2014
John Pollack, Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark
Innovation, and Sell our Greatest Ideas, Gotham, 2014
Brene Brown, I thought it was Just Me (But it isn’t), Gotham Books,
Penguin, NY 2007
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel, Make it Stick:
The Science of Successful Learning, Belknap Press of Harvard University,
Cambridge MA, London, 2014