Here is a list of books recommended from my fellow book-readers. I’ve include comments if they did also. *The person who recommended the book is in parenthesis)
- The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek (Scott Woodard)
- Awaken Your Genius, by Ozan Varol (Scott Woodard)
- Tomorrowmind, by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman & Martin Seligman (Scott Woodard)
- In Defense of Troublemakers,” by Charlan Nemeth (Scott Woodard)
- Coaching Career Clients on Salary and other Workplace Negotiations, by Karen Chopra (Jan Hodges Coville)
- Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet by Michelle R. Weise, PhD (Meg Gerry)
- The Search by Bruce Feiler (Ray Giese and Scott Woodard)
- The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills by Jessie Singal that challenges the acceptance of pop psychology just because it becomes popular. (Barry Davis)
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, noting how the Internet is reducing our ability to focus (Barry Davis)
- Switchers, Dawn Graham (Kristen McLaughlin, Holly Smevog, Meg Gerry all recommend)
- YouMap by KRISTIN A. SHERRY (Kristen McLaughlin)
- Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra (Kristen McLaughlin)
- Modernize Your Executive Job Search by Louise Kursmark and Jan Melnik (Kristen McLaughlin)
- Dirty Work by Press is important book about some of those essential workers society loved for a hot minute (Brian Hutchinson)
- Stolen Focus by Hari is super informative about the next skill CDPs need to learn to teach – attention (Brian Hutchinson)
- The Burnout Society by Han is the most important philosophy work for career dev I have read in more than a decade (Brian Hutchinson)
- A History of America in 10 Strikes is important context for the age of union ascendancy we are finally in (Brian Hutchinson)
- “Mindset” by Dr. Carol Dweck! (Sujata Ives)
- Career Recovery” by Spencer Niles, Norman Amundson, Roberta Neault, Hyung Joon Yoon. (Sujata Ives)
- Books by Dr. Imants Jaunaraj (Sujata Ives)
Example: Brain-Based Career Development theory booklet offered through NACE (Jim Peacock) - The Career Change Guide: Five Steps to Finding Your Dream Job by Rachel Schofield https://a.co/d/flvV5jL (Celeste Wroblewski)
- Career Coach GPT: The Complete Guide to ChatGPT Resume, Cover Letter, Interview, and Job Search Success by Jeremy Schifeling https://a.co/d/bzu36Sk (Celeste Wroblewski)
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Ed Lawrence)
- Modernize Your Executive Job Search by Louise Kursmark is a hidden gem! (Celeste Wroblewski)
- Atomic Habits (Sabrina Woods)
- Quit (Sabrina Woods)
- “Human Work” by Jaime Meriosotis (Sujata Ives)
- Killers of the Flowers Moon (Richard Steers)
Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.
He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.
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