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Eddie’s Recommendation Book List

by Eddie

Business skill

  • Creativity

  • Leadership

  • Marketing

  • Negotiation

  • Presentation

Creativity

This book is my bible to produce ideas. I have been trying the 5 steps of producing ideas and I always achieved my goal.

If you like to learn how to make ideas or you are struggling to get new ideas, this is the book on how to get it.

This book is very short and costs less than $5, so I highly recommend it to anyone interested in creating ideas.

Please check my Book review: A technique for producing ideas by James Webb Young

In addition to the “A technique for producing ideas by James Webb Young” I definitely recommend reading this book since this book is easy to understand.

“5 steps Method for Producing Ideas” in this book is a useful method and a good reference for you.

Please check my Book review: How to get ideas by Jack Foster

Leadership

Do you know your strength?

If not, this is the book you need.
(I present this book to my brother.)

You will learn

  • Your talent
  • The characteristics of each talent
  • How to maximize your strength

Note: Please buy a new book to redeem the access code. If you buy a used book, the code might not work.

If it’s not clear to you about the difference between managers and leaders, this is the book for you.
We can learn what is necessary talents and actions for managers and leaders.

Please check my Book review: The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham

Marketing

There are so many marketing books but I like this book because I learn basic knowledge from this book.

I definitely recommend this book for engineers and also beginner of marketing knowledge.

Please also check my book review.

What I was impressed by Frank Bettger is Thirteen Secrets To Success In Sales.

He suggested picking up 1 item and think the item during the week. There are 52 weeks a year, so we can check our activity based on the items for 4 times x 13 items every year. We can write down each item on the card and bring it during the week. Therefore this is a good system to review periodically.

Please check my Book review: How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger.

This book stuck in my heart because I realized that I don’t start with WHY.

After I read this book especially about “The Golden Circle” I started thinking about “START WITH WHY”.

So read this book and think about if you start with why?

Please check my Book review: START WITH WHY

Negotiation

I think this is the best book to learn negotiation skill.

If you didn’t hear about principle negotiation style, you should read this book to get the best negotiation skill.

I believe this is effective for your jobs and also at your home.

Please check my book review Getting to Yes.

We can learn 5steps of the negotiation method that don’t let anyone say “No”!

I like the idea of “Go to the Balcony.” to control my emotion. 

Getting to Yes is the first book to learn principle base negotiation style and this book described various kinds of situations and conversation examples so I think you can find some useful words for each situation.

I was really influenced.
There are so many cases and I was persuaded by many techniques.

We can learn how people are influenced.

I hope you will find useful principles and influence people.

The official website is here.

Presentation

It’s my favorite book. We can see a lot of graphics to understand how to apply “Zen philosophy” to our presentation.

Let’s check this book and make your presentation simpler with Zen!

Please check my Book review: PresentationZen by Garr Reynolds

This is the best book to learn how to make a presentation like Steve.

Just take it and learn from Steve!

There are 6 points written in this book to make your idea lasting.

These 6 points are a good reference to check our idea. Once you understand the framework of the “MADE TO STICK’ philosophy, you can use them to brush up on your idea.

Please check my Book review: MADE TO STICK

Parenting skill

  • Listening

  • Soccer

Listening

I learned “Validation” from this book.

Validation is the activity beyond listening.

We need to understand that almost all people want validation, not advice. I learned one of the common mistakes is to advise before we validate.

I think listening is the one of important skills for engineers as well as fathers. I’m sure it worth learning if you didn’t know about “validation”

Please check my book review.

If your wife or child say “You don’t listen to me.” Just read this book.

Each chapter has a worksheet so you can learn your listening style and characteristics through worksheets.

If you read some books but couldn’t improve your listening skills, I definitely recommend this book.

Please also check my book review: Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide by Madelyn Burley-Allen.

Soccer

If you can’t create good relationship with your child through soccer, this is the book for you.

I learned many things from this book and have been trying to improve relationship with my son.

I hop enjoy enjoy this book!

Please also check my book review: Changing the game by John O’Sullivan.