What books significantly impacted your professional growth?
This is a post by B.V.Harish Kumar, co-founder of CTQ
At Choose To Thinq, we help teams and individuals uplevel for future relevance. It means different things for different people/ teams at different stages of their life/ career. But what we have realized is that there's a mindset that is required to be thinking about professional growth in a deliberate manner. You obviously have the growth mindset and are looking to grow - the fact that you have asked this question proves it.
There are many simple frameworks, tools and principles that will help you build the right mental models that help your professional growth. As Scott Adams says, one should have 'more than working knowledge' in more than one area and that combination is what will make you special and irreplaceable.
When we started our consulting business at Choose To Thinq, we were working with business leaders who wanted to develop their teams to stay future relevant. Most of our clients would ask us - we want individuals in our team to start thinking and behaving like you. Did you take any course? We had not. We realized that our thinking had been shaped by the books we had read. Because most of us at CTQ had read the same books, it was easy for us to have a common language when it came to describing problems or giving a label to approaches.
We have gone ahead and compiled the list of the top 100 books that have shaped our thinking. We had to spend a lot of time looking for the right books.
We have included books in the following categories:
Thinking and Decision-making
Innovation
Persuasion and communication
Habits and Behaviour
Business, Culture and Society
The way we live and work
Science and Economics
Biographies and History
We have published this list so that you don't have to waste time to stumble upon these books over a period of time.
You can cut the chase and directly get to the books.
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