No matter where you are in your career — just starting out, mid-career, or in a more senior position — you can never stop learning, especially in a modern economy that is changing so rapidly. Reading is a necessity if you want to advance in your career. It is something you should always be doing. People like Bill Gates and Mark Cuban do it every day.
Read These 3 Books To Inspire Your Career
1. Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career
This is a book with a number of different contributors discussing various career topics. But there is a common thread running through it all – making things happen, being proactive. Many books focus on how to create new ideas, but this one focuses on how to put those ideas into practice – by acting, experimenting, failing, adapting and learning every day.
Drawing on the work of leading researchers, the book presents pragmatic insights that are oriented toward doing. The goal, the authors say, is not to help you come up with new ideas, but to help you put the ones you have to work.
2. Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness by Kerry E. Hannon
In this book, the author emphasizes little things that people can do to bring the enjoyment and fulfillment back to their work. It’s all about focusing on the routines, habits and thought patterns that we use every day. It doesn’t take much to change these habits, change your outlook, and make your job fun again. The book teaches you how to develop new habits that will bring a sense of purpose back to your work. It explains how to recharge your motivation through little successes.
3. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
This is one of the mainstays of the business publishing world, having been named the most influential business book of the Twentieth Century.
The seven habits can more accurately be called principles, timeless truths that function as guides on how to live. The book is really about the formation of character, which is essential for discipline and success. Covey lays out a guide for being effective – first, building upon a set of core principles that are unchanging, while at the same time continually striving for improvement and self-renewal.
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