Book List

Read in 2020

Act Like a Success, Think like a Success, Steve Harvey
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Becoming Bulletproof, Evy Poumpouras
Call Sign Chaos, Jim Mattis & Bing West
Dare to Lead, Brene Brown
Deep Work, Cal Newport
Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Endure, Alex Hutchinson and Malcolm Gladwell
Finding Ultra, Rich Roll
Forgetting to be Afraid: A Memoir, Wendy Davis
Get Over Your Damn Self, Romi Neustadt
God is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
Granite Mountain, Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty (previously published as My Lost Brothers)
High Performance Habits Brendon Burchard
Leadership Strategy and Tactics; Field Manual 02, Jocko Willink
Left For Dead, Beck Weathers
Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath
Seal of Honor, Gary Williams
Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
Spark: How to Lead Yourself and others to Greater Success, Angie Moran and others
Talking to Strangers, Malcom Gladwell
The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
The Lost Art of Listening, Michael Nichols
The Miracle Morning, Hal Erod
The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher
The Right - and Wrong - Stuff, Carter Cast
The Rise of the Ultra Runners, Adharanand Finn
The Science of Selling, David Hoffeld
Training For Ultra, Rob Steger
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington

Other Articles/Research articles I’ve read:

Time Management: A Realistic Approach
Motivations and Limitations Associated with Vaping among People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Analysis of Reddit Discussions
Lessons from Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System Complexity, Michael A. Roberto.
1. Cannot link this. This was recommended by a Race Director. I learned many things on how bias work and the application to racing is greatly impacted if anyone that is in charge has any arrogance or doesn’t allow others to have a different opinion than the leader. The people that have researched the tragic events that took place on Mount Everest in 1996 can see Status, Leader support, and overconfidence of a leader impacts a team’s mental safety net. In these situations it is very important to have trust within one another that even if a different view point is made, the leader is open to hearing it. One of the leaders on the mountain that day made remarks that negated all trust and humbleness. This has fatal results in the end.
Army Crew Team, Scott Snook & Jeffrey Polzer, Harvard Business School Article
The Satera Team at Imatron Systems, Inc, Teresa Amabile & Elizabeth Schatzel, Harvard Business School Article

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