On the Holiday Reading List

First thing to do over the holidays? Work on my blog presentation. Second thing, some pleasure reading.

Thanks to my staff and some others who sent Amazon gift cards my way I now have a pile of books that are more “fun” to read over the next 10 days or so.

Here’s what’s in my pile:

“A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped The British Win Two World Wars” by Nicholas Rankin. This is a British Import. Oxford Press does such beautiful books. Heavy cream pages. True life book. I think saw this one in the Economist.

“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs” by Carmine Gallo. I think I saw this one on Michael Hyatt’s blog. I don’t speak often but I read multiple books each year to improve my speaking ability. Should probably invert that equation.

“Management Rewired: Why Feedback doesn’t work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science.” Tony Morgan turned me on to this one in his blog and then did a great interview with the author. I have read the introduction and so far, so good.

“What Americans Really Want…Really” by Frank Lutz. I think this one came via Nelson Searcy. I really enjoyed the insights of the author’s previous Words that Work about how language shifts how we think about certain issues.

And finally on the list is “The Predictioneers Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future.” I think this one came via the Economist as well and is about game theory.

As you will see my holiday reading is not the same as my regular reading. I want to read far afield this holiday.

What’s not on my list that should be? I have another $60 Amazon card.