This book covers everything you need to know about creating a culture of valuable 1:1 meetings from cadence to location to agendas and more. Rogelberg, a leader in meeting research, argues that 1:1s are one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members and managers. Conducting 1:1s successfully is foundational to being a manager and at the core of a direct report’s experience and development at work, including how well they engage, how they perceive the effectiveness of their manager, and envision their future in the organization.

Dia Bondi went to auctioneering school as a way to support local non-profit groups with fundraising. Little did she know that amidst cowboys and cornfields she’d find strategies to help her clients, start up founders and C-Suite leaders, to make more powerful asks at work and in life.

Crucial conversations are defined as those where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions are strong. The bad news is that most of us are at our worst when the conversation matters most. The good news? The skill of masterfully handling crucial conversations through dialogue is skill you can learn and this book provides actionable frameworks to use.

In this book Scott describes a behavior framework where the x-axis is the degree to which you are willing to challenge others and the y-axis is the degree to which you care about them. Radical Candor is what you get when you both care personally and challenge directly.

Essentialism is the idea that you should define your highest level contribution and then protect your ability to do that thing over all else. By investing in fewer things, you get the satisfaction of making significant progress in the things that matter most.

The Art of Gathering is based on Priya Parker’s extensive experience as a professional facilitator. It has a very logical and chronological flow that helps the reader to understand that you can and should curate the experience of your gatherings. Doing this leads not only to efficiency, but more importantly to deeper meaning and connection with others.

This book helps the reader to begin to understand how culture influences the way we think and operate across eight dimensions. Meyer maps several countries on a variety of dimensions and then explains the differences through stories, and concludes with practical guidance for navigating working relationships across cultures.

This book is based on a course about startups that Thiel taught at Stanford in 2012. One of his students, Blake Masters, took extensive notes that were shared outside of class and outside of campus. They gained such popularity that Theil worked with Masters to turn those notes in to this book.

This is a book about how to learn faster so that you can unlock your limitless brain. Kwik starts with explaining some of the foundational truths about how we learn and retain information and then he uses those throughout the book to help the reader learn and retain information.

This book was gifted to me and arrived to my house on December 31st, the perfect time of year for a book about contemplating who you are and what you want from life. I devoured it in three days.

The word atomic is nodding to foundational points of the book; that habits are a source of immense energy and power, they’re part of a larger system, and that you should start with an extremely small and irreducible unit.