For those of us in Gen-X and Gen-Y, we’ve gone from having a lack of options available to us in 2000, to being overwhelmed by options available to us in 2022.
Authors wrote in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 books this year alone.
While I used to enjoy the role of being the most read, I’ve re-evaluated how and what I read. Life is too short to read bad books. Therefore, almost all books I read these days come as recommendations from trusted individuals in my network. I’ve found the tradeoff, from being first to read a book to reading a higher quality of books overall, freeing.
In 2022, these books rose to the top.
Leadership
The Four Cornerstones and the Capstone, by David Miller
Hero on a Mission, by Donald Miller
Startups
Build, by Tony Fadell
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets, by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney
Mindset, Effectiveness, & Personal Growth
Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy, by Aundi Kolber
The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions, by Emily P. Freeman
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
