It’s officially spring! Which means it’s time for new growth of all kinds. Whether you’re looking for a life overhaul this month or just seeking to reinvigorate your best self, a couple great new book can be life changing.
Here are 10 we highly recommend to help you get inspired and motivated to boost your career (and life!):
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. The world is changing faster than ever, and the smartest response for those in charge is to give small groups the freedom to experiment while driving everyone to share what they learn across the entire organization. As the authors argue through compelling examples, the team of teams strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA. It has the potential to transform organizations large and small.
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Go beyond power posing and into the depths of social psychology with this popular Harvard social psychologist. By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mindset in our day-to-day lives.
Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we’re wrong. Stretch shows why everyone – from executives to entrepreneurs, professionals to parents, athletes to artists – performs better with constraints.
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Scott identifies three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees so you can be a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and anyone who has a boss, i.e. YOU.
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit – that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s secrets. The truth is, there are untapped sources of meaning all around us – right here, right now.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
This bestseller is flying off the shelf, so there’s a high probability it’s already on yours. Angela Duckworth is dethroning the idea that possessing intelligence and talent is the foundation for success. Instead, it’s this idea of “grit” that’s the secret to getting what you want.
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
The tagline for this book is “How Non-Conformists Move thSet featured imagee World.” Read: how not being like everyone else is actually an asset. This book will help you see the benefit to taking the road less traveled and then get you ready to blaze your own path.
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives and our personal lives. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum
In Hustle, three of the nation’s top entrepreneurs and consultants teach you how to look at work and life through a new lens – one based on discovering projects you enjoy and the people and opportunities that support your talents, growth, income, and happiness. The book’s powerful – often counterintuitive – advice teaches you to redefine hustle as the optimal path to success.
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms
This book challenges conventional ideas of relationships, goal-setting, mindfulness, happiness, and meaning. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories and humorous irreverence, you’ll find a powerful framework for re-coding yourself – and replacing old, limiting models that hold you back with new, empowering beliefs and behaviors that set you on the path toward an extraordinary life.
