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Great books to read!

Reading is an essential habit everyone must cultivate and for business professionals, it is
indispensable. Reading quality content not only helps improve one’s grip over the language, but
also opens one’s mind to new perspectives, makes one question the status quo, and helps one
introspect better. Besides newspapers, business periodicals and best-selling fiction, management
professionals often read ample self-help books that enhance their people-skills, help them
prioritize their schedules, and be a more effective and successful person. Here are some books
you can read and assimilate, while you await your commencement day, and build a life-long
life-changing habit.

Self-Effectiveness:
1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
3. Screw It, Let’s Do It – Richard Branson
4. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen
5. Awaken the Giant Within – Anthony Robbins
6. Man's Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
7. Thinking, Fast & Slow –  Daniel Kahneman
8. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael Lewis
9. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
10. The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
11. Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform
Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration – Keith Ferrazzi
12. Daring Greatly – Brené Brown

Leadership and Achievement:


1. Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch and John A. Byrne
2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
3. Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
4. Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
5. Originals – Adam Grant
6. Winning – Jack Welch
7. The Outsiders – S.E.Hinton
8. Friday Forward: Inspiration & Motivation to End Your Week Stronger Than It Started – Robert
Glazer
9. Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You – Frances Frei
10. Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business – John Mackey
11. True North – Bill George and Peter Sims
Entrepreneurship and Business:
1. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
2. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't – Jim Collins
3. Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
4. The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
5. Liar's Poker – Michael Lewis
6. Winning – Jack Welch
7. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
8. The Hard Things about Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
9. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
10. Hooked: How to build Habit-Forming Products – Nir Eyal
11. Zero to One – Peter Thiel
12. Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace –
Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan
13. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
14. The Effective Executive – Peter Drucker
15. The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong – Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull

Finance and Economics:


1. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
2. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World – Niall Ferguson
3. The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
4. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
5. The Rise And Fall of Nations –  Ruchir Sharma
6. The Essays of Warren Buffet –   Lawrence Cunnigham
7. How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World - Steven Johnson
8. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
9. Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10. Common Sense on Mutual Funds – John C. Bogle
11. The Alchemy of Finance – George Soros
12. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Peter L. Bernstein
13. Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth – David Sainsbury and Baron Sainsbury

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