Pages of Inspiration – Top 10 Books for Motivation
Motivational books can help you overlook your obstacles to focus on your goals.
When faced with challenging times, the right message can lift you up to look beyond hardships and encourage you to set your sights on the goals you seek. Inspirational, instructional and influential words have long served as the building blocks for success, whether used to boost morale, enhance attitudes or ignite hopes and dreams.
Without motivation, it gets much too easy to give up when you meet the obstacles on the way to success. Fortunately, there are motivational books that can help you fire up yourself and jumpstart your motivation. Here are the top 10 motivational and inspirational books as suggested by our management team:
1. Managing By Values, by Ken Blanchard, Michael O’Connor and Jim Ballard – This book goes beyond the standard measures of success in the corporate world—size and volume—to describe a way to gauge a company’s success based on the quality of service available to its customers and the quality of life accessible to its employees.
2. Seeing Yourself as Others Do, by Carol Keers and Tom Mungavan – This book gives practical, relevant tips, techniques and approaches to managing how you are perceived by others. Learn what your blind spots are and what you can do about them to give yourself an advantage. Seeing Yourself as Others Do will dramatically increase your odds of communicating what you intend.
3. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell – This practical book is a fascinating study of human behavior patterns, and shows us where the smallest things can trigger an epidemic of change. Gladwell’s thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors “spread just like viruses do” remains a metaphor triggered with the help of three pivotal rules of epidemics.
4. Raving Fans!: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon M. Bowles – Raving Fans uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what customers really want, institute effective systems, and make exceptional service a constant feature–not just another program of the month.
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein – A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life…as only a dog could tell it.
6. Shift: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times, by Gary Keller – Need help weathering the storm in today’s real estate market? If so, Gary Keller’s book, Shift, is the lifesaver you need today to thrive tomorrow. Shift is rich in easy-to-understand strategies, charts, and illustrations that show you exactly what you need to do to thrive in today’s very challenging and ’shifted’ real estate market.
7. The Heart of a Leader, by Ken Blanchard – The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard’s insight and wisdom on choosing values, aiming for excellence, maintaining integrity and finding the courage to change to enhance leadership.
Who Moved My Cheese?: An interesting look into dealing with change.
8. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, by Spencer Johnson – From one of the world’s acknowledged experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.
9. Do You Know How to Shut Up?, by Michael Staver – Mike Staver, CEO of The Staver Group and a professional speaker and coach to thousands of people each year, has been called a Rebel with a Cause. A resistor of conventional wisdom, canned solutions, and tired clichés, he will push you to radically look at your life and your organization in revolutionary ways. Be prepared to not hear what you want to hear in this edgy, opinionated book.
10. A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink – A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities.
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