Don Minges’ Recommended Reading List

Business

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Presentations

• Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds
• slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte

Turnarounds and Change Management

• American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman

Management

• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Startups

• 6 Secrets to Startup Success: How to Turn Your Entrepreneurial Passion into a Thriving Business by John Bradberry
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

Sales

• The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Understanding Humans

• Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini

Fiction

• Among Thieves by John Clarkson
• I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller by Terry Hayes
• Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel (First book in the Jack Reacher series, all recommended) by Lee Child