BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Books serve as valuable tools for expanding our perspectives and evolving personally. Here is a curated collection of noteworthy reads: 

LEADERSHIP & WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP

Start with Why:
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer et al.

Dare to lead:
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. 

Brené Brown

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Spanier

Tribes: We need you to lead us

Seth Godin

Wolfpack:
How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game

Abby Wambach

Playing Big:
For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead

Tara Mohr

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

PRODUCTIVITY & HABITS

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

BJ Fogg

Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

Charlie Gilkey

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

Gay Hendricks

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Don Miguel Ruiz

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Amy Cuddy

CREATIVITY

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull et al.

Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

Scott D. Anthony et al.

The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Steven Pressfield

Create or Hate: Successfull People Make Things

Dan Norris

The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for Life

Twyla Tharp

Let The Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity And Change Everything

David Usher

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

MARKETING & BRANDING

This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See

Seth Godin

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Donald Miller

Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business

Kindra Hall

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design

Marty Neumeier

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger

Marketing: A Love Story: How to Matter to Your Customers

Bernadette Jiwa

SThe 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd

Allan Dib

Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands

Marty Neumeier

Purpose & Life-Design

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Martha Beck

Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Simon Sinek

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Bill Burnett et al.

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho.

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Live and lead consciously, coureageously and creatively