| Title |
Why it's cool / comments |
Author(s) |
|
| Switch |
A fascinating 'game plan' for more effective Change. |
Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
| Made to Stick |
The Tipping Point book of 2007. |
Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
| Tipping Point |
What's there to say that hasn't already been said? |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Other 90% |
A fellow alum, so I gotta give him props. |
Robert K. Cooper |
| The World is Flat |
Lengthy - but good. |
Thomas L. Friedman |
| If Aristotle Ran General Motors |
I loved this book in 1997 and ten years later, I still do. |
Tom Morris |
| The Experience Economy |
The best explanation for the next iteration of economy. |
B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore |
| Freakonomics |
Economics made fun! |
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
| Thomas Jefferson |
A great, digestible biography on one of history’s greatest yet most conflicted polymaths. |
B.B. Bernstein, 2003 |
| The Intellectual Devotional: American History |
This, and its predecessor (simply The Intellectual Devotional) offer great one-day-at-a-time reads. |
D. Kidder and N. Oppenheim, 2007 |
| Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life |
This fascinating autobiography by Steve Martin demonstrates the importance of preparedness colliding with opportunity. |
Steve Martin, 2007 |
| Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President |
This was by far the best biography I have ever read on Honest Abe. What an enthralling read about a man who accomplished much, despite his many personal demons. |
Harold Holzer, 2004 |
| 50 Facts That Should Change the World |
Did you know 55 million Chinese women are missing? This – and 49 other amazing facts will keep you up at night. |
Jessica Williams, 2007 |
| Waking the Dead |
A great spiritual read for those who hunger for a deeper life. |
John Eldredge, 2003 |
| The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan |
I cannot rave enthusiastically enough about this book. What a great read – it will mesmerize you to the end about a topic that may have never interested you one single day in your long life. |
Steven Gaines, 2003 |
| Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the War |
I’ll give this a B- but you should read it nonetheless, because there is much we current “e-mailers” can learn from Abe. |
2006 |
| Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior |
What a fascinating exploration of human behavior. Probably not the next Tipping Point, but better than Snoop and other recent-runs at the mantle. |
Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, 2008 |
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America |
What we desperately need is another moon-race-equivalent. In his latest book, Friedman provides a plausible possibility. |
Thomas Friedman, 2008 |
