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First, a disclaimer: I love books.

Especially real books. The paper kind. I love the way they feel, the way they smell, the way they age. For as long as I can remember, I have been a total bookworm – and, save for a short time in high school when I tried to act less nerdy to be cool (not that I fooled anyone!) – a very proud total bookworm. Bookshops are my Kryptonite: my wallet is extremely safe in most shoe shops, but I have yet to leave a bookshop empty-handed. So I have no claim to objectivity as far as books are concerned – ours is a tale of passion.

First, a disclaimer:

I love books.

Especially real books. The paper kind. I love the way they feel, the way they smell, the way they age. For as long as I can remember, I have been a total bookworm – and, save for a short time in high school when I tried to act less nerdy to be cool (not that I fooled anyone!) – a very proud total bookworm. Bookshops are my Kryptonite: my wallet is extremely safe in most shoe shops, but I have yet to leave a bookshop empty-handed. So I have no claim to objectivity as far as books are concerned – ours is a tale of passion.

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Foundation Building. Life-Work Balance Books

Nothing like a book that mixes business and pleasure. Read these for lessons you can apply across the board.

Perfect for the no-nonsense, more business-minded among us, it uses business school case studies to illustrate how we should live our lives. I bought it for most of my MBA friends. (Don’t have time to read the book? You’re a Google away from the article that the book is based on, it’s on the Harvard Business Review website. Pretty sure you’ll then go buy the book)

My personal recommendation: start with The Gifts of Imperfection, followed by Daring Greatly, then Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead. I’m about to dive into her latest, Strong Ground, and am very excited!

A book that literally changed my life, born from Tara’s revolutionary coaching work with female clients. I go back to it again and again (and re-take the online Facilitators’ Training Course almost every year).

Anything by Brené Brown.
My personal recommendation: start with The Gifts of Imperfection, followed by Daring Greatly, then Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead. I’m about to dive into her latest, Strong Ground, and am very excited!

Playing Big, by Tara Mohr.
A book that literally changed my life, born from Tara’s revolutionary coaching work with female clients. I go back to it again and again (and re-take the online Facilitators’ Training Course almost every year).

How Will You Measure Your Life, by Clayton Christensen
Perfect for the no-nonsense, more business-minded among us, it uses business school case studies to illustrate how we should live our lives. I bought it for most of my MBA friends. (Don’t have time to read the book? You’re a Google away from the article that the book is based on, it’s on the Harvard Business Review website. Pretty sure you’ll then go buy the book)

Tough Talks

I’m not exactly a huge fan of conflict or tough conversations (I know, this makes my choice of career a bit interesting…), but I know that is on the other side of my look around: wouldn’t it be amazing if we all got even a little bit better at dealing with people who don’t agree with us? Here are some of the books that have helped me.

A classic, paradigm-shifting from the first pages. My favourite idea: that every difficult conversation is in fact three different ones: the “What happened?” conversation, the feelings conversation and the identity conversation, and you need to tackle all of them, in the right order and the right way.

I literally take this down and go through the steps in it before any conversation that I suspect might get my Zen into trouble. Brilliant. The Next Conversation, by Jefferson Fisher. Super practical, bite sized advice. His newsletter is pretty good too.

Excellent framing of good, productive conflict vs high conflict – “what happens when conflict clarifies into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them.” Sounds painfully familiar, right?

Wild card, I know! This is a relationship book, but I am all about cross-pollination and please trust me that the ideas in here apply eerily well to workplace relationships…

Difficult Conversations, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
A classic, paradigm-shifting from the first pages. My favourite idea: that every difficult conversation is in fact three different ones: the “What happened?” conversation, the feelings conversation and the identity conversation, and you need to tackle all of them, in the right order and the right way.

Crucial Conversations, by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler and Emily Gregory.
I literally take this down and go through the steps in it before any conversation that I suspect might get my Zen into trouble. Brilliant. The Next Conversation, by Jefferson Fisher. Super practical, bite sized advice. His newsletter is pretty good too.

High Conflict, by Amanda Ripley.
Excellent framing of good, productive conflict vs high conflict – “what happens when conflict clarifies into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them.” Sounds painfully familiar, right?

Fight Right, by Julie Schwartz Gottmann and John Gottmann.
Wild card, I know! This is a relationship book, but I am all about cross-pollination and please trust me that the ideas in here apply eerily well to workplace relationships…