Communicating Effectively:
- Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, by Virginia Tufte
- Beautiful Evidence; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; Envisioning Information; and Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, all written by Edward Tufte
- The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman
- The Superior Person’s Book of Words, by Peter Bowler
- Storytelling as Best Practice, by Andy Goodman
- When Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes, by Andy Goodman and Cause Communications
Leading and Managing for Excellence:
- Dealing-with-Prisoners-in-the-Workplace
- Competing Values Leadership, by K. S. Cameron, R. E. Quinn, J. DeGraff, A. V. Thakor
- First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
- Hershey : Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, by Michael D’Antonio
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni
- Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization’s Growth Engine, by Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn
- Making the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordinary Performance, by Kim S. Cameron and Marc Lavine
- Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
- Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams and Why People Follow, by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
- What Got You here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, by Marshall Goldsmith
Marketing and Media:
- The Influentials, by Keller & Berry
- Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman by Yvon Chouinard
- Naked conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
- Natural Capitalism, by Hawken, Lovins & Lovins
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, by Barry Schwartz
- Pour your heart into it: How Starbucks built a company one cup at a time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang]