BOOK SPECIAL... 8 books that will work wonders for your career

8 books that will work wonders for your career





From ways to thinking on your feet to success stories of underdogs, these business books are the perfect work guides

1 Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

This New York Times best seller and winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012, is a must read. In the book, Kahneman, a psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, explains how our minds function. With that knowledge, he says people can figure out how to make better decisions in both their professional and personal lives.

2 Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin

Godin is the author of 18 international bestsellers, but this 2008 classic is the fastest-selling book of his career. In Linchpin, he argues that each company has three groups : management, labour, and linchpins. The last group may not get much recognition, but its members form the building blocks of the organisation because they love their work and pour themselves into it. Godin writes. “It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.“

3 How Will You Measure Your Life?

by Clayton M Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

T he late Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said that this book “deeply influenced“ him. Its purpose is to help readers find which path will lead to their personal fulfillment. It's also intended to challenge you to spend your time and money on things that are important to you.

4 Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

by Susan Scott

Communication can be tricky -especially when you're the bearer of bad news. It's no secret that communication is key to working with other people, but one of the hardest things to do is have a tough conversation with a coworker, a boss, or a direct report. Scott provides readers with valuable advice on how to go about tackling some of life's hardest conversations.

5 The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone

Stone covers the meteoric rise of disruptive companies like Uber and Airbnb.

Filled with rich anecdotes, this is a must for readers seeking insight into how ideas and eventually businesses can succeed or fail in a technology-rich landscape.

6 So Good They Can't Ignore You

by Cal Newport

Newport argues that “follow your passion“ is a flawed cliché and bad career advice. To back his opinion up, the Georgetown professor spent time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and other workers to find out how they landed in a career that they loved. What did he find? Aligning your job with a preexisting passion doesn't affect your job satisfaction. Instead, people become passionate about jobs that they work hard at and become excel lent at over time.

7 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You will need to set time aside to immerse yourself in Csikszentmihalyi's thesis on how to make your work and thinking better by getting into the ` flow' as opposed to jumping from task to task . Flow is perfect for anyone looking to get in the zone and achieve a state of energised focus in their work and life. Reading the book itself is an example how devoting time to an important idea is well worth the effort.

8 Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

Ever wonder how the best, brightest, or most successful people got to where they are today? Gladwell did, and he set out to find answers. In the Canadian journalist and bestselling author's book Outliers, he explains that in order to learn why some people reach the highest levels of success in sports, academia, or other pursuits, we have to look at their backgrounds, including their culture, family, generation, and individual experiences growing up .

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