Much of my reading outside the reading I do for the podcast was centered around notes, knowledge retention, and learning. These are my favorites I read in 2022, but not necessarily released in 2022.

The Disconnect Principle provides the missing link that will change the way you think about feedback, accountability, and performance management forever. This is the approach that will allow you to be the empathic and effective manager, employee, or peer that you would like to be.

Neal and Carly Samudre believe that joy is what’s missing from our ability to make lasting change in our lives. Building on biblical insights and the latest findings in positive psychology, Start from Joy outlines an emotionally healthy approach to change―one where joy leads the way.

This week, I share the results of my 2022 Listener-Reader Survey and where the Read to Lead Community is headed.

Learn how to create, live, and sell your own personal brand―even if you hate sales!―with step-by-step help from the First Lady of Sales.

Whether you’re competing for local foot traffic or global downloads, Primal Storytelling will help you forge authentic connections with your audience, improve your brand performance in social media and SEO, and supercharge your content results.

The communication tools Jeff Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.

Amplify Your Influence shows you how to leverage a variety of behavioral motivators to achieve positive outcomes and results and frame our ideas in a way that encourages engagement and gets and active response from your followers.

Grubhub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat.

We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation is not an event , a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon. It's a result of mastering idea flow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.

After 36 years of testing, research and development, Jeff Blackman's explosive business-growth system that shows you step-by-step how to Peak Your Profits.

How the Future Works offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people.

Originally written as letters from a father to a son, 18 Words to Live By is a practical handbook for life and a heartfelt reminder of what matters most.

The final book from the late legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame, offers inspiration and optimism about living your best life.

If you'd like to see the outputs that result from your content consumption efforts lead to new connections, well-deserved promotions, and opportunities that were previously out of reach, then you have to learn how to take smart notes.

Join author Vincent Pugliese on a backwards journey that starts with your character and curiosity and ends with your offer, and discover all the opportunities waiting for you when you turn your attention from being a wealth of knowledge and experience towards being a wealth of connection.

In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill—a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty—shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.

Leaders who align their leadership behaviors to motivate and satisfy the needs of their teams will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.

Is your appetite for learning far greater than the time you have available to process it? Want a better system for retaining what resonates with you and ultimately expressing it in your own way? Your help is here!

What if the key to future business success lies in a simple and secret marketing approach that presidents use to get elected and startups use to become unicorns? Now you can learn it too!

Entrepreneurship is not a spirit or a gift. It is a process that anyone can learn, and that anyone can use to turn a problem into a solution with impact.

As we reach the peak of the Great Resignation, two veteran executive coaches help today's leaders learn how to retain and inspire their teams through the one thing their research has found works: LEADING with HEART.

Beyond technology, software, social media networks, even advertising and marketing campaigns, the biggest and best tool you'll ever have in your belt is a book with your name on the cover.

Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop—regardless of who you are and what you do.

LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies shares exactly what you need to know to optimize your profile according to your goals.

In The Secret Society of Success, Tim Schurrer invites you to reevaluate your definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it.

Whether you want to become a millionaire, build wealth faster, or retire early, join the more than one million people worldwide who are already using Noah’s iconic method to transform your life in less than five minutes a day.

To say love is what makes a marriage work, is like saying it takes oxygen to climb a mountain. Yes, oxygen is necessary. But not sufficient.

A 21-day kick-start to stress-free money management.

Reading like a series of one-on-one sessions with one of the world's leading business thinkers, A New Way to Think is an essential guide for any current or aspiring business leader.

From a leading Yale Expert and serial entrepreneur comes a radical, principled, and field-tested approach that identifies what's really at stake in any negotiation and thereby ensures you get your half—so you can focus on growing the pie.

A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right.

Growth occurs when learning is internalized—when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are.

We don't need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In these pages bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using the seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived.

Are you working harder than ever but struggling to make progress? You can escape the quicksand of busyness, distraction, and complexity...starting today!

Personal accountability is the bedrock upon which all sustained success in life is built. Yet, what if nearly everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong?

Rich. Wealthy. Well-heeled. Moneyed. Affluent. Not bad—but why not get Stacked instead? If you’ve ever dreamed of a basic philosophy of money that’ll help you live bigger, be bolder, and laugh harder, you need this book.

Stephen M. R. Covey has made it his life's work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust & Inspire, he makes the compelling argument that even though our world has changed drastically, our style of leadership has not.

World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life.

Do you wake up every day feeling like you're going through the motions, that the hundreds of choices you make have almost no impact on the people around you? Simone Knego says you really only need to change the way you see yourself and the world around you will change.

In Dancing with Wisdom, Dr. Sunil Raheja shows you how to stop going through the motions and become the fully alive human being you were always intended to be.

In this conversation with Self-Publishing School's Chandler Bolt, he walks us through a proven path to taking your book to bestseller status.

VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.

Could you be the bottleneck that is preventing your business from the growth you'd hoped for? Today's guest has just the help you need to get over the hump to the next level.

If the American dream of formal education, work, buying a house, working some more, and trying to raise a family, isn't leading you where you want to go, then this is for you!

Dan's new book outlines a fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers, and anyone who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.

Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to create more supportive relationships with yourself, with your thoughts and emotions, and with other people, so you can become the awesome human you're meant to be.

In Crucible Leadership, Warwick Fairfax explains what he learned about himself from a devastating failure – who he was and who he was not, what his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.

The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.

If you or someone you know suffers from bouts of anxiety, or from workaholism, or both, this conversation is one you do not want to miss.

With years of experience helping organizations reimagine their identities, communication, and effectiveness to create a more productive workplace, Elizabeth Knox details her experience and data-driven strategies to help readers evaluate and discover a pace that allows both their organization and employees to succeed.

The Fearless Facilitator consolidates twenty years of experience and hard-learned lessons into a summary of powerful techniques you can deploy now.