Traveling: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts (clab)

Negociation: Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury also, Bruce Patton ALSO
Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher also

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson also

network: How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes

Goals and Time Management: Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, No B.S. Time Management For Entrepreneurs by Dan S. Kennedy

Sucess: What To Say When You Talk To Yourself by Shad Helmstetter, When I Say No I Feel Guilty by Manuel J. Smith, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and Arthur Pell,

Save and Invest: The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, or The Way To Wealth by Ben Franklin, Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

negociation & contracts: The Art Of The Deal by Donald Trump

finanicial statemtns: Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert T. Kiyosaki, article

ideas and marketing: The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy, CopyBlogger, The Psychology of Influence by Noah J. Goldstein

Questionable reccomendations:

Household Gold by Dr. Steve W Price,
The Way Of The Superior Man by David Deida

New Economics

-Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner *****
different way of analyzing events and habbits of people and groups. a couple of case studies. thought provoker. (yogurt)

Memory

-The Memory Book by Lorayne and Jerry Lucas *****
awesome book on memory tricks, rooms, lists atatched to things, silly images attatched to people…  i had to intentionally re-train myself how to forget sort of remembering (own)

Lust

How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You by Leil Lowndes *
definitely a guy perspective.. interesting thinking though, can’t take it too seriously (dont care)

Ideation

-A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech *****
compare problem to random associations, foolishness, cut down ideas after produce many of them, allow self to err, set new rules, allow play and frivolous thinking and IF YOU DONT OWN THIS BOOK YOU ARE BEHIND. (wbang) http://www.creativethink.com/

-Thinking For a Living by Joey Reiman ***
thinking clearly and profiting from ideas. intellectual property law tips, store and not share ideas until owned, mail ideas, and sell them (wbang) http://thinkingforaliving.org/

Office / Work Demeaner

-Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office by Lois P. Frankel, PhD ****
pitfalls women do to allow men to see them as lower status. ie not asserting themselves, not taking credit where credit is due, feeding workers (not sure if I agree with that one), not asking for raises or negociating for money (own) (she also nominates and promotes a worker in “What Not to Wear” TV show US) http://www.corporatecoachingintl.com/

-Secrets of Six-Figured Women by Barbara Stanny *****
creating habits to launch to new levels, financial savvy to enjoy whatever profit margin, networking and support, ask for it, try (lib) http://www.barbarastanny.com/secrets-of-six-figure-women.html
-also good list of links and resources in appendix

Books for Networking:

-How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie *****
probably the most charitable philosophy about life, about getting along with people in all aspects of life so as to fully enjoy life and get what you want out of it (own)

-Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi *****
talks about exact steps for both getting along with people and helping them out, which in turn helps you out. He has definitely read and agrees with Dale Carnegie. (clab) http://www.keithferrazzi.com/

Negotiating

-Is That Your Hand in My Pocket by Ron Lambert and Tom Parker *****
Exact how to’s to really study and beat good negociators, power plays with people and presentation, prep well for all meetings, close out and reconfirm events of meeting at end of meeting and email after, concrete study of body language, study negociator’s style and meet style, ask why irrational behavior, always get something and negociate creative other items (mrya)

Organizing

-How to Get Things Done by David Allen *****
A really interesting system of stating not only everything you need to get done and exact steps to tackle each task but also organizing it in such a way as to only handle little chunks of information at one time. It clears your mind to focus on the tasks at hand and stears you in how to easily handle it so those lists don’t overwelm. (nizzle) http://www.davidco.com/

Maximizing Work

-The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris **
interesting book about traveling and living cheap, interacting fun into life, delegating and especially outsourcing work and life. interesting little practices getting outside your comfort zone. (clab)

Defining Goals

-Simple-ology by Mark Joyner *
re-defining how you think about what you want to effectively get what you REALLY want. studying what you want and by analyzing your patterns of behavior and speech in response to the norms of society and other. Separating those norms and your needs to make clear choices. (clab) http://www.simpleology.com/

Investing in Stocks

-any of Jim Cramer’s books ***
studies on what he says is investing but mostly is long or short term trading based on intensive studies of market and world trends (yogurt) http://www.thestreet.com/