2023-12-23 Saturday - 10 suggested books for your 2024 personal/professional development goals

 

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If you are still working on your 2024 personal/professional development goals, here are some suggested books to consider adding to your reading stack:

Ten books that greatly influenced my professional development:

1. Customers for Life: How to Turn That One-Time Buyer Into a Lifetime Customer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385504454/

2. Secrets of Closing the Sale

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0800737903/

3.Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

https://www.amazon.com/Father-Son-Co-Life-Beyond/dp/0553380834/

4.As a Man Thinketh

https://www.amazon.com/As-Man-Thinketh-James-Allen/dp/1479409634/

5. Make It Happen Before Lunch: 50 Cut-to-the-Chase Strategies for Getting the Business Results You Want

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Happen-Before-Lunch-Chase/dp/0071360719/

6.How to Win Friends & Influence People

https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034/

7. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

https://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671035975/

8. Several of Gerald M. Weinberg's books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gerald-M.-Weinberg/author/B00459FFAC

• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
• Becoming a Technical Leader
• Secrets of Consulting
• More Secrets of Consulting
• Exploring Requirements 1: Quality Before Design
• Exploring Requirements 2: First Steps into Design
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
• The Psychology of Computer Programming

9. Letters from a Stoic

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Penguin-Classics-Lucius-Annaeus/dp/0140442103/

10. Meditations

https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Classics-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0140449337/