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Reading is something we can never do enough of, and is a constant source of ideas and inspiration. The following books are from our personal reading lists. Click on a book to learn more and then purchase it from Amazon or support your local booksellers.

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Madam Secretary – Madeleine Albright

Bully of Bentonville – Anthony Bianco

The Google Story – David Vise + Mark Malseed

Blue Streak; Inside Jet Blue – Barbara Peterson

A Crack in the Edge of the World – Simon Winchester

Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

Socrates in Love – Christopher Phillips



READING ROOM LIST

A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar

A Simpler Way - Margaret Wheatley

Affluenza - John De Graaf, David Wann, T. H. Naylor

Alphabet vs. the Goddess - Leonard Schlain

An Unfinished Life – Robert Dallek

Beyond Entrepreneurship - James C. Collins & William C. Lazier

Blink – Malcolm Gladwell

Bowling Alone - Robert Putman

Brand Gap - Marty Neumeier

Brunelleschi's Dome - Ross King

Built to Last - James Collins and Jerry Porras

Cicero - Anthony Everitt

Circles - James Burke

Collapse – Jared Diamond

Creativity – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear

Designing Web Usability - Jakob Nielson

e=mc2 - David Bodanis

E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber

Envisioning Information – Edward Tufte

Experience Design - Nathan Shedroff

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Founding Brothers - Joseph J. Ellis

Good to Great - Jim Collins

Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words - John Man

In Love and War - Jim and Sybil Stockdale

Interactive Excellence– Edwin Schlossberg

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy - Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

John Adams - David McCullough

Leadership and the New Science - Margaret Wheatley

Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner

Massive Change – Bruce Mau

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

My Traitor's Heart - Rian Malan

Now, Discover Your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw - Witold Rybczynski

Peak Performance - Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts, Ed Weymes

Personal History - Katherine Graham

Six Questions of Socrates - Christopher Phillips

The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers

The Art of Living - Epectetus / Sharon Lebell

The Art of Travel – Alain de Botton

The Hedgehog the Fox and the Magisters Pox - Stephen J. Gould

The Myth of Excellence - Fred Crawford & Ryan Mathews

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris

The Play Ethic – Pat Kane

The Power of Focus - Jack Canfield

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

The Soul in the Computer - Barbara Waugh

The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference - Malcom Gladwell

The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki

Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll

Turning to One Another – Margaret Wheatley

Truman - David McCullough

Wanderlust: A History of Walking - Rebecca Solnit

When Christ & His Saints Slept - Sharon Kay Penman

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance - Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

 

 

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