Motivational books
 

I attended my all company meeting yesterday afternoon and was really blown away by the guest speaker. He spoke of team building, leadership, confidence and his organizations philosophy. Apperently I was in need of a pep talk! I left the meeting with a renewed sense of who I am and what I'm doing. As I read through the book that was handed out, I started thinking, what other literature should I be reading?
With the amount of leaders, business owners and masters of the universe that are active on this board, I thought I'd ask the question. What books are in your office or bookshelf at home that you think are worth the read?


The speaker, Kris Richard. Defensive Coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks
The book, Pete Carroll's Win Forever

I really enjoyed Lee Iacocca's Autobiography

Some of my favorites:

The seasons of life-Jim Rohn
Wooden-John Wooden
In God we Trust-Norman Vincent Peale
Total Money Makeover-Dave Ramsey

First, are you wanting leadership or motivational?
Leadership
ANYTHING By John Maxwell. Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Dale Carnagie to name a few that are good.
Motivational
ANYTHING By Zig Zigelar, Tony Robbins, a few of the above guys and NICK VUJICIC will slap you around a bit too.

Don't know where your faith is, but there are some REALLY good biblical based books out there as well. I've been to the Willow Creek Leadership Summit a few times and it has always been really good. They have all sorts of high profile leaders that they are talking with and interviewing, both believers and non believers, all for leadership. https://www.willowcreek.com/about/

I got more if you're interested. :gitrdun:

Great thread...

Some I have benefited from..
How to make friends and influence people (Carnegie)
Extreme Ownership (Willink)
The Question behind the Question (Miller)

Not motivational but I'm a huge to kill a mockingbird fan as well as American history X

It's complicated....lol!

All good info so far, Wooden's name actually came up in Coach Carrols book as well as Phil Jackson. The leadership and team building is something I'm interested in and have found just by reading the one book and asking questions, I'm more motivated. Win, win!

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Brian Tracy has some good leadership stuff as well.

Wow...this list came to mind immediately, before I ever scrolled down to read any posts. These are all great authors. I have at least a couple of books from each in my library.

Isn`t Coach Carol great.I learned from another source as well.The United States Marine Corps.http://s1064.photobucket.comAnd it will be interesting to see your car since basically live in the same area.

As a Gulf War vet, I tend toward the military oriented solutions.

Something like:

http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2014/05...king-your-bed/

Either that or there are a bunch of solid Christian speakers, such as Ravi Zacharias "Just Thinking". It's good to have a nice solid discussion where all are treated with respect and still bring out points to ponder.

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Not sure I would count Lone Survivor as motivational. I have read it three times and it always get me going, so there is something to it.

Essentially a man against all odds, makes you think.

Joe

Sometimes reading the negative books can give you new perspective. That happened to me when I read "Coming out of the ice". It's about an American that got trapped in the Soviet Union after going over there to work for Henry Ford. Prison camp after prison camp, starved nearly to death eating rats, frost bite on his toes which they sliced off with no novocaine. He was trapped for nearly 30 years. He finally made it out and died shortly after. He had a stubborn will to live that very few possess.

I started reading Raise the Bar by Jon Taffer but its more meant for restaurant owners.

A buddy of mine gave me a good one to read.

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Inspirational, motivational...interesting. Very few parts of the book that didn't hold my attention and many that kept me up late to get through to the next chapter. Good read.

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Just finished off "Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness" by Eric Metaxas and the companion "Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness" (same author). Both were very good.

Also read "Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home" by Hugh Ross. He is an astrophysicist, but the book is very approachable and enjoyable.

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