These are the books that I’ve read and that I recommend reading.  If you’re in Brisbane, feel free to drop by our office in West End and you can borrow a copy.

Business

Getting Naked	Patrick Lencioni
Google Speaks: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs	Janet Lowe
Death by Meeting	Patrick Lencioni
Great by Choice	Jim Collins & Morten Hansen
Theory of Constraints	Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Goal	Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
E-Myth Mastery	Michael E Gerber
Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets	Mary Buffett & David Clark
350 Ways to Grow Your Business	Peter Switzer
The Art of War	Sun Tzu
The Lords of Strategy	Walter Kiechel
The Lean Startup	Eric Ries
How Companies Win	Rick Kash
The Great Game of Business	Jack Stack
Changing the Channel	Michael Masterson
Ultimate Deal	Tom MacGaskill
How The Mighty Fail	Jim Collins
Hidden Champions of the 21st Century	Hermann Simon
The Thank You Economy	Gary Vaynerchuk
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team	Patrick Lencioni
The Intelligent Entrepreneur	Bill Murphy
Straight from the Gut	Jack Welch
Jack Welch and the GE Way	Robert Slater
Winning	Jack Welch
The Little BIG Things	Tom Peters
The Dip	Seth Godin
Delivering Happiness	Tony Hseih
Linchpin	Seth Godin
Start Small, Finish Big	Fred de Luca
Built to Last	Jim Collins & Jerry Porras
Good to Great	Jim Collins
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits	Verne Harnish
The Tipping Point	Malcolm Gladwell
The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking	Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
Business Stripped Bare	Richard Branson

The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable	The Group of 33, Seth Godin

2010 Culture Book	Zappos.com
Rework	Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Delivering Happiness	Tony Hsieh

Customer Service

The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great	Rick Smith
Raving Fans	Ken Blanchard
The Future Is Customer Service	Kim Illman
The Future IS Customer Service	Kym Illman
The Ultimate Question 2.0	Fred Reichheld
What’s the Secret	John Di Julius

Employee Engagement

Employee Enragement	James Adonis
First Break All The Rules	Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

Entrepreneurship

Poke the Box	Seth Godin
The Eagle Boys Pizza Story	Tom Potter
Masterclass for Entrepreneurs – Vol 1	Professor Tom McKaskill

Execution, Influence, Persuasion & Pricing

What Made You Think Of That?	Gary Bertwistle
Poke the Box	Seth Godin
Made to Stick	Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Making Ideas Happen	Scott Belsky
Implementing Value Pricing	Ronald J. Baker
Smart Pricing	Jagmohan Raju
Influencer	Kerry Patterson
Predictably Irrational	Dan Ariely
Yes! 50 Secrets From The Science of Persuasion	Robert Cialdini

HR

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization	Dave Logan, John King, & Halee Fischer-Wright
Who: The A Method for Hiring	Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Ownership Thinking	Brad Hams

Leadership

The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli
The Truth about Leadership	James M. Kouzes
The One Minute Manager	Ken Blanchard
Tribes	Seth Godin
Multipliers	Liz Wiseman
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently	Tony Hsieh
Harvard Business Essentials – Negotiation	Michael Watkins
Secrets of Internet Entrepreneurs Exposed	Dale Beaumont
Duties and Responsibilities of Directors and Officers 18th edition	Professor Bob Baxt, Judith Madigan & Design Strategy

Lifestyle

You are Brilliant!	Mike Francis
The Art of Non-Conformity	Chris Guillebeau
The Four Hour Work Week	Timothy Ferriss
The Four Hour Body	Timothy Ferriss

Marketing

Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing	Dan Gooder Richard
Spin Selling	Neil Rackham
Return on Influence: The revolutionary power of Klout, social scoring, and Influence marketing.	Mark W. Schaefer
The New Rules of Marketing & PR: 3rd Edition	David Meerman Scott
Newsjacking	David Meerman Scott
Stick Yourself Out There	Scott Ginsberg
Roar! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle	Kevin Daum with Daniel A. Turner
Reality Marketing Revolution	Eric Keiles & Mike Liebermann
Referral Engine	John Jantch
Duct Tape Marketing	John Jantch
The Vibe	Gary Bertwistle
Unmarketing	Scott Stratten
All Marketers Are Liars	Seth Godin
Meatball Sundae	Seth Godin
The Big Moo	Seth Godin
Purple Cow	Seth Godin
Unleashing The Ideavirus	Seth Godin
Permission Marketing	Seth Godin
Inbound Marketing	Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
World Wide Rave	David Meerman Scott
Real-Time Marketing and PR	David Meerman Scott
The New Rules of Marketing and PR	David Meerman Scott
Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions	Tim Ash
The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success secrets of Remarkable Results	Michael Bergdahl Rob Walton

Performance and Success

Collective Wisdom	Brett Kelly
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen Covey
Be Excellent at Anything	Tony Schwartz
Go Put Your Strengths to Work	Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us	Daniel H. Pink
Richest Man In Babylon	George Clason
The Magic of Thinking Big	David Schwartz
Secrets of Self Made Millionaires	Brian Tracy
Who Stole My Mojo?	Gary Bertwistle
Success Built to Last	Jerry Porras

Public Speaking

Speaking to Win	Brian Tracy
Own the Room	David Booth
Confessions of a Public Speaker	Scott Berkun
Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live”	Bernard McKenna, Glen Thomas & Neal Waddell

Relationships

How to Win Friend and Influence People in the Digital Age	Dale Carnegie
How To Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie
Never Eat Alone	Keith Ferrazzi
Who’s Got Your Back	Keith Ferrazzi

Sales

Daly Sales Motivators	Jack Daly
Sales Dogs	Blair Singer
Selling in Tough Times	Tom Hopkins
SNAP Selling	Jill Konrath
Mastering The Complex Sale	Jeff Thull
The Ultimate Sales Machine	Chet Holmes
Business Stripped Bare	Richard Branson
350 Ways to Grow Your Business	Peter Switzer
Built to Sell	John Warrillow
Daily Sales Motivators	Jack Daly
Daily Sales Motivators	Tom Sant
Pitch Anything: An innovative method for presenting, persuading, and winning the deal	Oren Klaff
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be	Paul Arden

Web

The Google Story	David A. Vise
The Search	John Batelle
Making Money While You Sleep	Brett McFall
Niche Internet Marketing	Leigh Burke
Don’t Make Me Think	Steve Krug
The Longer Long Tail	Chris Anderson
Marketing in the Age of Google	Vanessa Fox
Content Rules	Ann Hadley & C.C. Chapman
Crush It	Gary Vaynershuk
Socialnomics	Erik Qualman
The New Community Rules	Tamar Weinberg
Building Websites with Joomla! A step by step tutorial to getting Joomla! CMS website up fast	Hagen Graf
Trust Agents	Chris Brogan & Julien Smith
Information Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series)	Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah & David Meerman Scott
Internet and the World Wide Web	Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J Dietel & Tem R. Neito
Systems Analysis and Design, 4th edition	Kenneth E. Kendall & Julie E. Kendall
Web Analytics: An Hour a Day	Avinash Kaushik
Building Websites with Joomla! A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS Website up fast	Hagen Graf
Designing Web Usability	Jakob Nielsen
Social Media Analytics: Effective tools for building, interpreting and using metrics	Marshall Sponder
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition	Peter Morville & Louis Rosenfeld
Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development: The Professional Guide to Programming Joomla!	James Kennard
Youtube For Dummies	Doug Sahlin and Chris Botello
Million Dollar Website: Simple Steps to Help You Compete with the Big Boys – Even on a Small Business Budget	Lori Culwell

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