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Name Your Top 5 Professional Development Books that have helped you the most

Posted on 4/19/25 at 10:06 am
Posted by Gerry Laval
Member since Apr 2025
5 posts
Posted on 4/19/25 at 10:06 am
For me, with The Bible being a given, it is:

1) The Slight Edge-Jeff Olson
2) The Richest Man In Babylon-George Clason
3) How To Win Friends and Influence People-Dale Carnegie
4) Rich Dad, Poor Dad-Robert Kiyosaki
5) The Power of Habit-Charles Duhigg

Posted by Lsudx256
DFW
Member since Mar 2016
3007 posts
Posted on 4/20/25 at 9:22 am to
I work in hospitality field and the one book I still reference and think about daily is The 3 Signs of a Miserable Job by Pat Lencioni. Same guy who wrote The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team books.
It’s about culture and how you treat and manage people to get their engagement and show you care about them.
Posted by Wasp
Off Highland rd.
Member since Sep 2012
1519 posts
Posted on 4/20/25 at 1:07 pm to
1. Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
2. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
3. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
4. Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
5. Superforecasting by Phil Tetlock
Posted by nealnan8
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2016
2752 posts
Posted on 4/20/25 at 4:37 pm to
Excuse My Endowment - How To Get Through Life With An Extremly Large Penis, by Jonathan Dillenger.
Highly recommended...it changed my life.
Posted by roadkill
East Coast, FL
Member since Oct 2008
2023 posts
Posted on 4/20/25 at 6:06 pm to
Warren Bennis and Steven Covey each have several great books on management, leadership, and organizations.

Also a book called "Crucial Conversations".
Posted by Tygermanjohn
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
160 posts
Posted on 4/20/25 at 9:10 pm to
Extreme Ownership
Never Split the Difference
Measure of a Man
This post was edited on 4/20/25 at 9:12 pm
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
8833 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 4:36 pm to
Most business books should really be pamphlets. One good idea expanded into 200 pages. There’s a reason that services like Blinkist exist to give you a books ideas in 15 minutes.
Posted by hogfly
Fayetteville, AR
Member since May 2014
4909 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:36 am to
A lot of the others already mentioned (5 Dysfunctions, Extreme Ownership, etc..)

I really liked Atomic Habits for personal development and also had lots of principles I applied to my professional life.

Posted by Riggle
Member since Feb 2013
3960 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:02 pm to
Deep Work by Cal Newport is fantastic

How To Raise a Healthy Gamer is a good book about boundary setting framed through helping a child with screen addiction
Posted by ecb
Member since Jul 2010
9714 posts
Posted on 4/25/25 at 10:29 pm to
1) The Dilbert Principle
Posted by jrenton
Houston
Member since Mar 2007
1988 posts
Posted on 4/26/25 at 8:59 pm to
Effective Executive - Peter Drucker
Principles - Ray Dialio
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman
Obstacle is the Way - Holiday
Titan - Chernow
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