The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen Covey

Trust is so integral to our relationships that we often take it for granted, yet in an era marked by business scandals and a desire for accountability this book by leadership expert Covey is a welcome guide to nurturing trust in our professional and personal lives.

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink

With visionary flare, Pink argues that business and everyday life will soon be dominated by right-brain thinkers. He identifies the roots and implications of transitioning from a society dominated by left-brain thinkers into something entirely different.

Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Ours and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner

Gardner, a psychologist and professor at Harvard, examines the factors involved in changing minds on significant issues, in politics, science, business and art. He identifies seven key elements, including reason, research and real world events, that are part of the decision-making process.

Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner

Psychologist, author and Harvard professor Gardner (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons) has put together a thought-provoking, visionary attempt to delineate the kinds of mental abilities ("minds") that will be critical to success in a 21st century landscape of accelerating change and information overload.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in this book. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management.The authors have culled their observations from more than 80,000 interviews conducted by Gallup during the past 25 years.

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

In 1897, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, in his study of the patterns of wealth and income, observed that the distribution of wealth was predictably unbalanced. Over the years, Pareto's observation has become known as the 80/20 principle. Now Richard Koch takes a fresh look at the 80/20 principle and finds that the basic imbalance observed by Pareto 100 years ago can be found in almost every aspect of modern life.

Say Something Real by Lou Solomon

This is is not a book about the rules of business communications. For every rule, there are great leaders who completely ignore it. In spite of the rules, they communicate wonderfully, powerfully, irresistibly. So to worry about the rules is to play it small. We are afer something more. For the purposes of this book, we call that something more authenticity.

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (And When to Stick) by Seth Godin

Yet another easily digestible social marketplace commentary from the blogger/author who penned Purple Cow and Small is the New Big, Godin prescribes a cleverly counter-intuitive way to approach one's potential for success. Smart, honest, and refreshingly free of self-help posturing, this primer on winning-through-quitting is at once motivational and comically indifferent.

Action: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves by Robert Ringer

Bestselling self-help author Ringer's main theme is that people need to take personal action in order to get what they want from life. This truism is explored and coupled with other factors such as honesty, self-discipline, adversity, personal values and how these things help or get in the way of promoting positive action.

Mind Power into the 21st Century by John Kehoe

Anecdotes from Carol Burnett, Mark Spitz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others add a lively touch to this inspirational book. Mind Power Into the 21st Century takes a practical approach, giving readers techniques that they can apply to their own lives. This accessible road to personal improvement is simple, easy, and straightforward, without all the jargon.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell's thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types.

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

In Outliers, Gladwell once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneered—the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena. His gift for spotting an intriguing mystery, luring the reader in, then gradually revealing his lessons in lucid prose, is on vivid display. We learn what Bill Gates, the Beatles and Mozart had in common: along with talent and ambition, each enjoyed an unusual opportunity to intensively cultivate a skill that allowed them to rise above their peers.

Around the Year with Emmett Fox: A Book of Daily Readings by Emmett Fox

Here in this collection of 365 daily meditations lives the essence of a great spiritual teacher -- one who truly understood the wellspring of life. The keen insights captured here speak as freshly to the everyday needs of humanity as they did the day Fox first wrote them. Culled from Fox's published and unpublished lecture notes and manuscripts, this guide for daily living also includes much-loved passages from Sermon on the Mount, Fox's million-copy bestseller, along with the popular Power Through Constructive Thinking.