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Update: Here is the completed list — Douglas

One great aspect all of Tom Peter’s Books
is how often he calls out other, very interesting, books. As I am reading The Little Big Things, I am collecting up these books and linking them here.

I have already put several on my library request list. I hope you find them interesting and useful, too.

I will update this post as I add new items.

Books mentioned in Tom Peter’s The Little Big Things…

• Nudge by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
  
• Sway by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
  
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  
• The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart
  
• Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct by P.M. Forni
  
• Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace by George Washington, Richard Brookhiser
  
• The Manager’s Book of Decencies: How Small Gestures Build Great Companies by Steve Harrison
  
• Green Building A to Z by Jerry Yudelson
  
• The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design by Sandra Medler, William Odell, Mary Ann Lazarus
  
• Green Architecture by James Wines
  
• Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery by Charles Kilbert
  
• Respect by Sara Lawrence-Lighfoot
  
• Hostmanship: The Art of Making People Feel Welcome by Jan Gunnarsson and Olie Blohm
  
• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M. R. Covey
  
• The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly
  
• The Customer Comes Second: Put Your People First and Watch ‘Em Kick Butt by Hal Rosenbluth and Diane McFerrin Peters
  
• Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations by Kelly Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
  
• Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
  
• The Experience Economy: Work is Theater & Every Business a Stage by Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore
  
• What got you here won’t get you there by Marshall Goldsmith
  
• Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges and Restoring Trust by John Kador
  
• Polite revolutionary: Lessons from an Uncivil Servant by Bob Stone
  
• One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way by Wendy Kopp
  
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
  
• Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
  
• Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business by Michaeil Gurian and Barbara Annis
  
• In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffin
  
• Ladies of Seneca Falls by Miriam Gurko
  
• Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick
  
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
  
• The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Live by Leonard Mlodinow
  
• Listening Leaders: The Ten Golden Rules to Listen, Lead and Succeed by Lyman Stell and Richard Bommelje
  
• The Zen of Listening by Rebecca Shafir
  
• Effective Listening Skills by Dennis Kratz and Abby Robinson Kratz
  
• Are you really listening? by Paul Donoghue and Mary Siegel
  
• Active Listening: How to improve your ability to listen and lead by Michael Hoppe
  
• Listening: The Forgotten Skill by Madelyn Burley-Allen
  
• Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions to Knowing What to Ask by Michael Marquardt
  
• Smart Questions: Learn to Ask the Right Questions for Powerful Results by Gerald Nadler and William Chandon
  
• The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers by Terry Fadem
  
• How to Ask Great Questions by Karen Lee-Thorp
  
• Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by Marilee Adams
  
• Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by Neil Browne and Stuart Keeley
  
• No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris
  
• Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t Be Taught — and How You Can Learn It Anyway by Dov Frohman and Robert Howard
  
• Retail Superstar: Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores in America by George Whalin
  
• Nelson: Britannia’s God of War by Andrew Lambert

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