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From Phil Styrlund
President
The Summit Group
I offer the following books as some of the most impactful to me on both a personal and business level.
On a business and societal level, these are the books that have impacted me
Integrity
Stephen Carter
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Steven Covey
Principled Centered Leadership
Steven Covey
Just Enough
Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Built to Last
James Collins
Seven Zones of Leadership
Robert Terry
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss and Neil Howe
The Speed of Trust
Stephen M.K. Covey
Execution
Ram Charam
The 500-Year Delta
Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker
The American Hour
Os Guinness
Deep Change
Robert Quinn
First Things First
Steven Covey
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The One Thing You Need to Know
Marcus Buckingham
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
Leadership & Self Deception
Terry Warner
Strategy – Pure & Simple
Michael Robert
Tactics
Edward de Bono
Know How
Ram Charam
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Cahn Kim
The Alchemy of Growth
Mehrdad Baghai
How to Grow When Markets Don’t
Adrian Slywotzky
Competitive Advantage
Michael Porter
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Here are the major books that have impacted me on a personal level
The single best source for exceptional reading is The Trinity Forum. Their website is http://www.ttf.org. Go to their Store and check out the books, readings and briefings.
Also, you can buy the Books from Os Guinness's Programs. These are the best.
When No One Sees - The importance of Character in an age of Image
The Great Experiment - Faith and Freedom in America
Doing Well and Doing Good - Money, Giving and Caring In a free Society
Steering Through Chaos - Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion
Entrepreneurs of Life - Faith and the Venture of Purposeful Living
The Journey - Our Quest for Faith and Meaning
Character Counts
Other Exceptional Books
The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peck
Man’s Search for Meaning
Victor Frankel
The Business of Heaven
C.S. Lewis
Think a Second Time
Dennis Prager
Happiness is a Serious Problem
Dennis Prager
Authentic Happiness
Dr. Martin Seligman
AQ Adversity Quotient
Dr. Paul Stoltz
First Things First
Stephen Covey
Lincoln’s Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Think a Second Time
Dennis Prager
The Problem of Pain
C.S. Lewis
Leadership and Self Deception
Terry Warner
The Four Loves
C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis
The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren
Disappointment with God
Philip Yancey
Making All Things New
Henri Nouwen
A Year with C.S Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Ruthless Trust
Brennan Manning
Waking the Dead
John Eldridge
The Call
Os Guinness
Business as a Calling
Michael Novak
Living a Life That Matters
Harold Kushner
The Pursuit of God
A.W Tozer
Let Your Life Speak
Parker Palmer
Reflections for Ragamuffins
Brennan Manning
Long Journey Home
Os Guinness
Soul Survivor
Philip Yancey
Here and Now
Henri Nouwen
Freedom Of Simplicity
Richard Foster
Mid-Course Correction
Gordon McDonald
When God Weeps
Joni Eareckson Tada
Disappointment with God
Philip Yancey
Beyond the Mirror
Henri Nouwen
The Seven Story Mountain
Thomas Merton
Celebration of Discipline
Richard Foster
The Pleasures of Life
Sir John Lubbock
People of the Lie
M. Scott Peck
The Message
Eugene Peterson
Wild at Heart
John Eldridge
The American Hour
Os Guinness
Fun is Good
Mike Veeck
Play to Win
Larry Wilson
The Search for Significance
Robert McGee
Margin
Richard Swenson M.D.
You ‘re only Young Twice
Rhonda Beaman
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
The Resilience Factor
Karen Reivich
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbertt
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
“We read to know we are not alone”
C.S. Lewis
