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My Book Recommendations - By Michael Batko

As part of my new thing a week, I’ve also started reading a book a week — mostly on professional development and behavioural psychology for now, but this will expand with time.

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Michael Batko
Michael Batko
26th June 2023
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Biographies & Company Journeys

1

Outsiders

William N. Thorndike Jr.2012
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
4.20Shop
2

Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston2001
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Technology
  • Biography
3.99Shop
3

My Life and Work

Henry Ford1922
  • Biography
  • History
  • Management
4.19Shop
4

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger , Joel Lovell2019
  • Biography
  • Leadership
  • Memoir
4.42Shop
5

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard2005
  • Biography
  • Memoir
  • Leadership
4.19Shop
36

Ghenghis Khan Emperor of All Men

Harold Lamb1927
  • History
  • Biography
  • Medieval
3.75Shop
37

Setting the Table

Danny Meyer2006
  • Food
  • Leadership
  • Management
4.04Shop
38

The New New Thing

Michael Lewis1999
  • Technology
  • History
  • Biography
3.75Shop
39

When I stop talking, you’ll know I’m dead

Jerry Weintraub , Rich Cohen2010
  • Biography
4.13Shop
40

Red Notice

Bill Browder2015
  • Politics
  • History
  • Memoir
4.44Shop
41

Made in America — Sam Walton

Sam Walton , John Huey1993
  • Leadership
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Biography
4.12Shop
42

The Wit & Wisdom of Charles Munger

Charles T. Munger , Peter E. Kaufman2005
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Philosophy
4.43Shop
43

The Upstarts

Brad Stone2017
  • Technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Biography
4.04Shop
44

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis2016
  • Psychology
  • Science
  • Economics
3.98Shop
45

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight2016
  • Memoir
  • Sports
4.47Shop
46

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance2015
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Biography
4.20Shop
47

Surely, you’re joking Mr. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman , Ralph Leighton1985
  • Physics
  • Science
  • Memoir
4.27Shop
48

To Pixar and Beyond

Lawrence Levy2016
  • Biography
  • Technology
4.23Shop

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Inspirational — Professional / Personal Development

6

Power of Moments

Chip Heath , Dan Heath2017
  • Psychology
  • Self Help
  • Leadership
4.13Shop
7

Grit

Angela Duckworth2016
  • Psychology
  • Self Help
  • Personal Development
4.08Shop
8

Radical Candor

Kim Malone Scott2017
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Self Help
4.09Shop
9

Mindset — The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck2006
  • Psychology
  • Self Help
  • Personal Development
4.09Shop
10

Principles

Ray Dalio2017
  • Self Help
  • Leadership
  • Finance
4.12Shop
49

Linchpin — How to be indispensable?

Seth Godin2010
  • Self Help
  • Leadership
3.83Shop
50

A Man’s search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl2017
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Self Help
4.46Shop

Category
Practical — Professional / Personal Development

11

Atomic Habits

James Clear2018
  • Self Help
  • Psychology
  • + 2
4.38Shop
12

Multipliers

Liz Wiseman2010
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Self Help
3.99Shop
13

Playing to Win

A.G. Lafley , Roger L. Martin2013
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Entrepreneurship
3.98Shop
14

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen2016
  • Management
  • Leadership
  • Entrepreneurship
4.13Shop
15

On Writing Well

William Zinsser1976
  • Writing
  • Reference
  • Self Help
4.24Shop
51

5 Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni2002
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • + 1
4.10Shop
52

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek2014
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • + 1
4.11Shop
53

15 Commitments for Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer , Diana Chapman , Kaley Klemp2015
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • + 1
4.22Shop
54

On Managing People

Harvard Business Review2010
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Self Help
4.01Shop
55

For New Managers

Harvard Business Review2017
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Self Help
4.05Shop
56

Unconventional Success

David F. Swensen2005
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Money
3.96Shop
57

Measure What Matters

John Doerr2017
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Productivity
3.99Shop
58

Trillion Dollar Coach

Eric Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg , Alan Eagle2019
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Biography
3.99Shop
59

Angel

Jason Calacanis2017
  • Finance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Technology
4.28Shop
60

The LaunchPad

Randall E. Stross2012
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Technology
  • Finance
4.05Shop
61

Breaking into VC

Bradley Miles , Carol Tietsworth , Guido Henckel2017
  • Finance
3.68Shop
62

Creativity

Ed Catmull , Amy Wallace2014
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Biography
4.21Shop
63

Collaboration Patterns

Takashi Iba2014
  • Methods
  • Tips
3.67Shop
64

The Most Important Thing

Howard Marks2011
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Money
4.31Shop
65

The Little Book of Value Investing

Christopher H. Browne , Roger Lowenstein2006
  • Finance
  • Money
  • Economics
4.12Shop
66

Data Smart

John W. Foreman2013
  • Technology
  • Science
  • Programming
4.12Shop
67

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths2016
  • Science
  • Psychology
  • Technology
4.13Shop