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Books Experts Recommend – By Topic
Leadership
Gautam Mukunda, professor at Harvard Business School and author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter recommends:
- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
- Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
- Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney, Willpower
Power
Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor at Stanford MBA school and author of Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t recommends:
- Robert Cialdini’s Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion
Networking
Adam Grant, professor at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success recommends:
- Liz Wiseman’s Multipliers
- Dan Pink’s To Sell is Human
- Susan Cain’s Quiet
- Robert Cross’ The Hidden Power of Social Networks
- Wayne Baker’s Achieving Success Through Social Capital
Marketing and Advertising
Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, recommends:
- Pratkanis and Aronson’s Age of Propaganda
- Robert Cialdini’s Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion
- Schwartz and Edelston’s Breakthrough Advertising
- Claude Hopkins’ My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising
Expertise
Cal Newport, professor at Georgetown and author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, recommends:
- Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
- Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
- David Shenk’s The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success
- Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
- Frans Johansson’s The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World
Happiness
Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project recommends:
- Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice
- Sonja Lyubomirsky’s The How of Happiness
- Jonathan Haidt’s Happiness Hypothesis
- John Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson
Human Behavior
Michael Norton, professor at Harvard Business School and author of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending recommends:
- Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational
- Danny Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow
- Adam Grant’s Give and Take
- The books of Malcolm Gladwell
- Don Campbell’s Unobtrusive Measures
Influence and Persuasion
Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, recommends:
- Packard and Miller’s Hidden Persuaders
- Daniel Pink’s To Sell is Human
- Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment
- Adam Grant’s Give and Take
Charisma
Olivia Fox Cabane, author of The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism recommends:
- Robert Cialdini’s Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion
Irrationality
Dan Ariely, professor at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions recommends:
- Chabris and Simon’s The Invisible Gorilla
- Belsky and Gilovich’s Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes
- Jonah Berger’s Contagious
- Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge
http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-recommended-book-by-field-2013-6
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