What Linchpins Read

Yesterday was Worldwide-Meet-The-Tribe-Of-Linchpins Day according to Seth Godin. Seth fans gathered together at over 790  meetups around the world and talked about his books/blog, shipping ideas, and many other topics of interest.

Chris Coldeway, another UBC Sauder alum and creator of redrovr, organized the Vancouver Meetup. My sis got up there and shared a bit about her time in NYC with Seth as part of his nanoMBA program. She was rad – as per always. Chris then led the attendees in creating smaller discussion groups where we talked about whatever topic someone wanted to take the lead on discussing. Didn’t like the conversation in that group? Implement the 2 feet rule! (You have two feet, so use them to walk to a new group.)

I wanted to know what these linchpins were reading so was excited to get some really rad folks at the table. This was the list that the 8+ of us created. I tried to organize them into some categories to help you pick out your next read:

Leadership & Introspection

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World – Craig and Marc Keilburger
Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design – Danielle LaPorte and Carrie McCarthy
What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement - Dennis Kimbro

Digital

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder – David Weinberger
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age – Clay Shirky
The Singularity is Near – Ray Kurzweil
The Cluetrain Manifesto – Rick Levine et al

Business Strategy & Philosophies

What Would Google Do? – Jeff Jarvis
The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change – Louis V. Gerstner
Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones – Joseph Jaffe
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing? – Jeffrey W. Hayzlett

Sales & Communications

How to Sell Anything to Anybody – Joe Girard
Words that Change Minds: Mastering the Language of Influence – Shelle Charvet
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuassion To Sell Your Ideas – G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa

Creativity & Innovation

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Don’t – Dan and Chip Heath
Free Prize Inside – Seth Godin
The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future – Dan Pink

Economics

Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Startup Nation – Dan Senor and Saul Singer

Fiction/Memoirs:

Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

Blogs:

43 Folders
Brains on Fire
Life without Pants
Backpocket COO
Freshness Factor Five Thousand (Jason Mraz)
Blocquote
Chase Jarvis
The Art of Non-Conformity

… as if my to read list wasn’t already long enough! Happy reading linchpins!

Pick of the post: Hannah Georgas – Bang Bang You’re Dead

Related posts:

1. The “To Read” List
2. Day 1: “I want to read a book”