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Creating a one stop shop for all the books I've read and recommend

Kai Esping's Book List

Contents

Done

Book Author Rating Notes Tags
Players First Coaching John Calipari 10/10 notes Coaching, Basketball
Eleven Rings Success Phil Jackson 10/10 notes Coaching, Basketball
Finding the Lost Art of Empathy Tracy Wilde 10/10 notes Coaching, Communication
The Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday 9/10 Mindset
Raise Your Game Alan Stein 10/10 notes Coaching, Leadership, Mindset
Lost Connections Johann Hari 9/10 Psychology, Life
What Drives Winning brett Ledbetter 10/10 Coaching, Mindset
Rich Dad vs. Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki 10/10 Personal Finance
Total Money Makeover Dave Ramsey 9/10 Personal Finance
The Champions Mind Jim Afremow 8/10 Sports Psychology
The Coaching Habit - Say less ask more & change the way you lead forever Michael Bungay Stanier 10/10 notes Coaching, Communication
Dare To Lead Brene Brown 9/10 notes Leadership, Communication
Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson 10/10 notes Communication
Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff 9/10 Psychology, Life
Dichotomy of Leadership Jacko Willink 10/10 notes Leadership, Navy SEAL
The Collapse of Parenting Leonard Sax 10/10 Parenting, Coaching
Basic Economics Thomas Sowell 10/10 notes Economics, Centralization vs. Decentralization
Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell 10/10 Economics, Rhetoric
Apocalypse Never Michael Shellenberger 10/10 Environment
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 10/10 notes Communication
The subtle art of not giving a F*** Mark Manson 9/10 notes Life, Cynical, Coaching
Everything is F****ed Mark Manson 9/10 Life, Cynical, Coaching
Necessary Endings Henry Cloud 9/10 Leadership, Psychology, Life

In Progress

Book Author Rating Notes Tags
48 laws of Power Robert Greene Social, Leadership, Power

Wishlist

  • Energy Bus
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
  • What if I Say the Wrong Thing: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • The Culture Code
  • Tribal Leadership
  • Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

Backlog

  • The Phoenix Project
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
  • Shoe Dog
  • Ego is the enemy
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • OUTDOOR KIDS IN AN INSIDE WORLD
  • Give and Take Revolutionary approach to success
  • Antifragile things that Gain from Disorder
  • Conscious Business
  • Essentialism
  • Talking to Strangers
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapic Customer Feedback
  • F*** Feelings: One Shrinks Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
  • Elon Musk documentary
  • Radical Honesty
  • Psyched up
  • Inside our Coaching - Joe
  • Every Movement Matters
  • Change Coaching Compassion
  • Turn ship around turning followers
  • Radical Candor
  • Startup Owners Manual
  • Mindset: The new psychology of success
  • Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth
  • Becoming a Technical Leader - An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
  • The ride of a lifetime - By Robert
  • Principles - Ray Dalio (by far the best book ever read
  • outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Scrum - the art of doing twice the work in half the Time
  • The Five dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
  • The Gifts of Imperfection—Be you. (Good place to start)
  • Daring Greatly—Be all in. (Practice at work)
  • Rising Strong—Fall. Get up. Try again. (Practice at work)
  • Daring Greatly
  • The Power of Vulnerability
  • StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath-ebook
  • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
  • Coaching Agile Teams
  • The Prosperous Coach
  • “EMPOWERED, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products” by Silicon Valley Product group
  • Situational leadership Ken Blanchard
  • Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
  • The Coach's Casebook

Podcasts

  • Hoop Heads Podcast
  • The Culture Builders Podcast
  • The New Man
  • Daily Stoic
  • 10% Happier