8 Responses

1. Medina, Pink and Hay

   'Working it Out at Work' ~ Julie Hay ~ Sherwood Publishing

   'Brain Rules' ~ John Medina ~ Pear Press

   'Drive The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us' ~ Daniel H. Pink ~ Cannon Gate

    

    

2. Getting Things Done & Be Your Own Career Coach

   "Getting Things Done", Harper Collins Business Secrets Series 2010

   "Be Your Own Career Coach", Pearson, 2013

   A shameless "puff" as I wrote both of them!

   Rus Slater

3. Good book

   What got you here won't get you there – Marshall Goldsmith. 

   Strengthsfinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now Discover Your Strengths – Tom Rath.

   Sho mover my cheese – Spencer Johnson – it's a LiHi book (love it or hate it)  

    

   Cheers. 

4. Good books

   Should have been Who moved my Cheese? – too quick on the keys and slow with the eyes.

   Another I thought of – Assertiveness at Work: A Practical Guide to Handling Awkward Situations – Ken and Kate Back    

5. Celestine Prophecy

   This could be considered "Hairy Fairy" by some but http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prophecy has some amazing chapters to help with self development and emotional intelligence.

   Most people I recommend it to don't really get it but I've read it many times and really really "get" it.

6. And a few more…

    

   Some great suggestions above. Here are some of my favourites:

   David Kiersey – Please Understand Me (inclides a 'temperament sorter' questionnaire which is very similar to MBTI)

   Edward de Bono – De bono's Thinking Course (if only this stuff was aught in schools…)

   Goldstein, martin, Cialdini – Yes! 50 secrets from the scince of persuasion

   Emma Sue Prince – The Advantage: The 7 soft skills you need to stay one step ahead

   Peter Honey – Improve Your People skills

7. Ben Goldacre

   Here's another one I finished reading last night, it's quite disconcerting.

   Stuart Sutherland – 'Irrationality: The Enemy Within' 

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irrationality-enemy-within-Ben-Goldacre/dp/1780660251/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NZYF15CYFG4PYCV4S3X

   Here's the Amazon blurb which nicely sums it up.

   'Why do doctors, army generals, high-ranking government officials and other people in positions of power make bad decisions that cause harm to others? Why do prizes serve no useful function? Why are punishments so ineffective? Why is interviewing such an unsatisfactory method of selection?

   Irrationality is a challenging and thought-provoking book that draws on statistical concepts, probability theory and a mass of intriguing research to expose the failings of human reasoning, judgement and intuition. The author explores the inconsistencies of human behaviour, and discovers why even the experts find it so hard to make rational and unbiased decisions.'

8. Thanks!

   Hi everyone,

   Thank you so much for the excellent suggestions. I will start to look into them all but if you do think of anymore please keep them coming!

   George