Happy New Year 2011 to everyone. With the new year comes a bunch of resolutions and lists of things to accomplish in the new year, in the personal and professional versions of the life we live. Today we have a list of books on business, sales and marketing recommended by our #usguys community on Twitter which counts among its members business gurus, entrepreneurs, and marketing and social media experts. Without further ado, these are the books #usguys are going to be reading in 2011, as extracted from the New Years Day (virtual) celebration on Twitter.
Recommended by: Rachel Baker, Sherree Worrell, Renee Martinez, Chase Adams, Sam Parrotto, Thomas Moradpour, Kellie Silcio and Lucy Goldberg
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Recommended by: Joseph Ruiz
Made To Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Recommended by: Sherree Worrell
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff
Recommended by: Deborah Weinstein
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill
Recommended by: Jackie Coughlan and Thomas Moradpour
Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith
Recommended by: Jackie Coughlan
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
The Price of Altruism by Oren Harman
Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright
Recommended by: Sylvain Martel
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Recommended by: Cary Branscum
It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be by Paul Arden
Recommended by: Chase Adams
Linchpin by Seth Godin
Recommended by: Michele Price
Defy Gravity by Rebel Brown
Recommended by: Paula Lee Bright
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Recommended by: Joseph Ruiz and Deborah Weinstein
Blink by Malcom Gladwell
Recommended by: Rob Ritchie
The Jelly Effect by Andy Bounds
Recommended by: Scott Tran and Thomas Moradpour
Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson
Recommended by: Dave Kerpen and Thomas Moradpour
Brains on Fire by Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church and Spike Jones
Recommended by: Chase Adams
Visioneering by Andy Stanley
Recommended by: Ric Dragon
Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash
The New Capitalist Manifesto by Umair Haque
Web design for ROI by Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus
Recommended by: Stan Phelps and Thomas Moradpour
Real-Time Marketing and PR by David Scott
Recommended by: Lewis Poretz
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
Recommended by: Freddie Winckler
Mainstream by Frédéric Martel
Recommended by: Thomas Moradpour
Update: Tom put up his own excellent blog post here, WITH his reasons why he’s reading these books in 2011. Highly Recommended!
and finally, Matt Browne brought #usguys 25 more books for business owners, which have been floating around in the Twitterverse for some time now. More suggestions are more than welcome in the comments.
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PS: Oh, what is #usguys? See here, here and here.
One of my absolute favorites: A Whole New Mind By Daniel Pink. It helped me understand that I’m not necessarily a round peg in a square hole – I’m just the kind of person that has one foot in the left side of my brain and one foot on the right side.