Time to Vote for Next Read - Book Club for Professional & Personal Development

When it comes to reading for both professional and personal development, do you have good intentions but don't get anywhere? Is your schedule so crazy that meeting at the same time and day of the week is a commitment you're not ready to make? Do you need deadlines to get you started? Do you work for or love a credit union? Answer yes to any of these questions, and we're the group for you!

Our book club launched March 15, 2010 starting with Patrick Lencioni's "Getting Naked: A Business Fable." We are currently reading our second book, Seth Godin's "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" Please feel free to join in at anytime. That's the method to the madness for connecting on LinkedIn. If you missed the start or we are on another book, you can still jump in and add to the discussion on any book active in the group discussion site, sharing with the community.

We are about 1/3 of the way through Linchpin. It's time to start thinking about what the group will read next. On the list are:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Everyone Communicates Few Connect by John C. Maxwell
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeir Hansson

Vote here. When you vote, please feel free to recommend books for future consideration.

Voting closes on June 16. Simple majority rules. The book with the most votes will be our third book.

Comments

[Brent Dixon]

Great list! Here are a few I've dug recently:

- Chief Culture Officer, by Grant McCracken
- Nudge, by Richard Thaler
- Flow, by Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi
- Making Ideas Happen, by Scott Belsky
- also, Getting Real, by the same guys who did Rework, is great.

Happy reading, y'all.

[Janine McBee]

Brent, thanks for chiming in. I just started reading this weekend, "This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future" by John Brockman . I am about 1/4 of the way through the book. Not my typical read, but wow! It reads like science fiction, yet has that eye opening, sometimes frightening, could be reality, not so distant future stuff that makes you question what if and why not?

[Janine McBee]

The votes are in! It was a tie between Blink and Rework. Rework it is. We'll continue with Linchpin, finishing up by June 27. We will take the month of July off. In August, the journey begins with Rework.

Rework addresses such areas as things that take you down, ways to move forward, how to make progress, ways to increase productivity, and more.