References

My reading list structured according to the BAC-ISH-Model and ordered descendingly by publishing year (of my copy).

Body

• Daniel Lieberman, Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health, 2022
• Joe Navarro, What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People, 2008
• Mark Bowden, Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals, 2012

Attitudes

• Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct, 2013

Culture (Anthropology)

• David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, 2022
• Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World, 2020
• B Westhoff, Fentanyl, Inc.: how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic, 2019
• Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar, Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind, 2018
• Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriages, 2006

History

• David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, 2018
• Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, 2018
• Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2017
• Ian Mortimer, Millenium, 2017
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015

Social

• Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, 2016
• Heinz Feldmann, Preisverhandlungen: Warum Menschen keine Rabatte und Nachlässe kaufen (German), 2014
• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2013
• Jens L. Tiedemann, Scham (German), 2013
• John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, 2001

Hierarchy

• Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth, 2013
• Steve Radcliffe, Leadership: Plain and Simple, 2012
• Mark Van Vugt, Naturally Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters, 2011
• John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, 2007
• Dale Carnegie, How to win Friends & Influence People, 1938

General

• Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, 2018
• Gerhard Roth, Coaching, Beratung und Gehirn: Neurobiologische Grundlagen wirksamer Veränderungskonzepte (German), 2016

Autobiographies by Business Leaders

• Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime, 2019
• Rand Fishkin, Lost and Founder, 2018
• Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work, 2017
• Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, 2018
• Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, 2004
• Ricardo Semler, The Seven-Day-Weekend, 2004
• Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, 1999
• Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: the Autobiography, 1998
• Ricardo Semler, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace, 1995