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Recommended Books

Theology

  • The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God
  • Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
  • Knowing God
  • Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine

Apologetics

  • Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics

Professional

Governing Skills

Leadership

  • The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success

Management

  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths
  • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
  • The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth

Executive Management

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
  • In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials)
  • Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning

Non-Profit Management

  • Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
  • Managing the Nonprofit Organization
  • Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Transferrable Skills

Productivity

  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • First Things First
  • Organizing for Dummies

Career Development

  • What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?)
  • 48 Days to the Work You Love
  • How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors

Soft Skills

Communication

  • Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
  • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Specialized Skills

Marketing

  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
  • Unleashing the Ideavirus
  • Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

Society and Culture

Economics

  • Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
  • Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
  • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
  • Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
  • The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Education

  • The Schools We Need: And Why We Don’t Have Them
  • Rapid Instructional Design
  • What’s the Use of Lectures?
  • What the Best College Students Do
  • What the Best College Teachers Do

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