For the traditionalist, a café is not a café without a collection of books. In our recommended books area, we have curated books across several areas of coaching, from traditional career coaching to the more open-ended life coaching.
We also refresh this area on a regular basis, so stop back. Also, if you have a book recommendation, please let us know and we will post it to the wider community.Great Book Options
Career Resources
Networking
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie - More Info
- Networking is a Contact Sport: How Staying Connected and Serving Others Will Help You Grow Your Business, Expand Your Influence -- or Even Land Your Next Job by Joe Sweeney with Mike Yorkey - More Info
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi - More Info
Personal Growth
- Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders, Managers, and Teams by Marcia Hughes & James Bradford Terrell - More Info
- Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman - More Info
- On Coaching with The Birkman Method by Robert T. De Filippis - More Info
- StrengthsFinder 2.0: Discover Your CliftonStrengths by Tom Rath - More Info
- The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work by Sharon Birkman Fink & Stephanie Capparell - More Info
- The Emotionally Intelligent Team: Understanding and Developing the Behaviors of Success by Marcia Hughes & James Bradford Terrell - More Info
Second Half Careers
- Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life by Marc Freedman - More Info
- Moving from Success to Significance by Bob Buford - More Info
- Purposeful Retirement: How to Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement (Volunteer Work, Retirement Planning, Retirement Gift) by Hyrum Smith & Stephen M.R. Covey - More Info
- Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life by Marc Miller & Susan Lahey - More Info
Management & Leadership
- It's the Manager: Moving From Boss to Coach by Jim Clifton & Jim Harter - More Info
- Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations that Inspire the Soul by Lance Secretan - More Info
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell - More Info
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick M. Lencioni - More Info
- The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner - More Info
- The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch:Inspire Self. Inspire Others. Inspire the World by Lance Secretan - More Info
Future of Business & Work
- Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do by Daniel M. Cable - More Info
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey & Rajendra Sisodia - More Info
- Conscious Capitalism Field Guide: Tools for Transforming Your Organization by Raj Sisodia, Timothy Henry & Thomas Eckschmidt - More Info
- Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business by John Mackey, Steve Mcintosh & Carter Phipps - More Info
- Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by Rajendra Sisodia, Jagdish Sheth & David Wolfe - More Info
- The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 by Taylor Pearson - More Info
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman - More Info
- Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock - More Info