Acres of Diamonds — Russell H. Conwell
The famous lecture given 6,000 times — the opportunity you seek is already in the field you stand on.
Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
The power of thinking without thinking — how expert intuition works and when to trust it.
Designing Your Life — Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Stanford's design-thinking approach to building a well-lived life — treating your life as a prototype, not a plan.
Bill Burnett
Executive director of Stanford's Design Program who, with Dave Evans, adapted product-design methods into a popular course on building a life. Designing Your Life (2016) became the most-taken class in Stanford's continuing-studies catalogue.
Bob Burg
Speaker and sales trainer whose 2007 parable The Go-Giver — co-written with John David Mann — sold over a million copies on the counter-intuitive claim that giving value first is the most reliable path to commercial success.
Chris Voss
FBI lead international hostage negotiator from 2003 to 2007 who worked over 150 kidnappings before founding the Black Swan Group. Never Split the Difference (2016) translates hostage-room tactics — mirroring, labelling, calibrated questions — into everyday negotiation.
