How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
First published in 1937, this influential book offers time-honored advice on doing just what it says, proving that influencing other people in a positive manner can help you succeed in just about every endeavor.
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, acclaimed psychologist Csikszentmihalyi explores the creative process.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
This best-selling introduction to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi’s landmark “flow” theory presents interviews with almost 100 creative people from a wide array of fields, exploring the creative process and showing the benefits of creative thinking on one’s quality of life.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
First published in 1990, this best seller shows you how to change your mindset to adopt these important habits for success. Translated into 32 languages, this book has sold more than 10 million copies.
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello Widely regarded as the greatest management thinker of modern times, Drucker here offers his penetrating and practical wisdom with his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity. The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet life’s many challenges.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Drucker shows how to “get the right things done,” demonstrating the distinctive skill of the executive and offering fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.
Handbook of Business Letters
L. E. Frailey
Originally published in 1970, long before e-mail came on the scene, this classic book helps you write professional letters, offering models of correspondence for every occasion.
How to Talk So People Listen: Connecting in Today’s Workplace
Sonya Hamlin
One of the country’s leading communicators delivers groundbreaking insights and solutions to some of today’s major communication issues at work: negotiating the generation gaps, integrating a multicultural workforce, organizing your message and making it visual, and understanding what motivates today’s audiences.
Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have
Justin Menkes
In this thought-provoking volume, Menkes pinpoints the cognitive skills needed to thrive in senior management positions.
Speak Without Fear: A Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator
Ivy Naistadt
This guide to combating stage fright in everyday business situations will help you become a natural, confident communicator.
Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas with Style, Substance and Clarity
Peggy Noonan
Best-selling author, columnist, and presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan shares her valuable experiences from years in the White House speechwriting trenches, offering specific techniques, fascinating anecdotes, and professional secrets of the trade.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful, including helpful advice on communication.
Emily Post’s The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 2nd Edition: Personal Skills for Professional Success
Peggy Post and Peter Post
Helpful advice for appropriate behavior and communication in both everyday and unusual situations, this is an essential guide to professional and personal success.
How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing In-Person and On-Line
Susan RoAne
“The Mingling Maven” Susan RoAne provides the tools and techniques for savvy socializing in all situations in order to establish connections that build personal and professional relationships.
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock
Rock demonstrates how to be a quiet leader, and a master at bringing out the best performance in others, by improving the way people process information.
Writing That Works, 3rd Edition: How to Communicate Effectively in Business
Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
This concise, practical guide to the principles of effective writing contains more than 200 specific examples of strong e-mails, memos, letters, reports, speeches, and resumes.
Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, 4th Edition: The Practical Approach to Correct Word Usage, Sentence Structure, Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar
Harry Shaw
This excellent reference guide focuses on some of the most common errors writers and speakers make and explains how to correct them with extensive examples and exercises.
The Elements of Style
William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White
This best seller, in print since 1957, has instructed millions on how to write properly, presenting the basics of composition, grammar, and word usage.
Winning
Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
The core of Winning is devoted to the real “stuff” of work. Packed with personal anecdotes, this book offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems.
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William K. Zinsser
Zinsser’s must-read book for anyone who writes on a daily basis explains the fundamentals of good writing and advocates a simple, uncluttered, and clear style of writing.