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📚2024’s Top Reads

Dec 31, 2024
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📚2024’s Top Reads … according to Goodreads, I read (and listened to) 49,000 pages in 159 books in 2024. That doesn’t include the wide variety of research, reports, & articles I read too. 


❓Rather than a top 10, I thought I’d share a few with purpose. When I’m asked, what book do you recommend? I usually answer - what do you want to learn? What are you curious about? 


For people who want to make organizations better and lead people well: 


🏎️ Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems by Frances Frei & Anne Morriss  https://amzn.to/4gXXbuo


🧠 Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems by Wendy K. Smith & Marianne Lewis  https://amzn.to/4h0IWoF


😣 The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Bob Sutton & Hayagreeva Rao  https://amzn.to/4gsWCsx


💗 Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary Murphy  https://amzn.to/41VUKUz


For people who want to have better relationships (at and away from work):


❓Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life by Jeff Wetzler  https://amzn.to/3VZv7yo


‼️ 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation―And Making Your Own Life Easier by David Yeager  https://amzn.to/3W3lIWR


❤️ Civil Unity: The Radical Path to Transform Our Discourse, Our Lives, and Our World by Shola Richards  https://amzn.to/4gAOYMH


📞 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg  https://amzn.to/4gHT2Ld


‼️ Dignity & Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People by Donna Hicks  https://amzn.to/3W40NCP


☺️ Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human by Urs Koenig 


For those seeking a different future for themselves:


😓 Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career by Michael Horn, Ethan Bernstein  https://amzn.to/40dInlJ


😭 The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It by Rob Cross and Karen Dillon  https://amzn.to/40grWoQ


😊 Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve by Alison Fragale 


Fiction to enjoy:


📕The Women by Kristin Hannah  https://amzn.to/41XFB5w


📘The Lost Bookshop Evie Woods https://amzn.to/4026brg


📗The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson  https://amzn.to/41VUUv9


📙The One & Only Family by Katherine Applegate https://amzn.to/3C2Rtbz


📖The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin https://amzn.to/4iVJvlg


📚The Assistant to the Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer https://amzn.to/3DGHNnS


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