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My top ten favourite personal / professional development books
Naked Leader Week – 72 – Monday 13 September 2004
My top ten favourite personal / professional development books
(Please send your favourites to me – booksilove@nakedleader.com – I will include all lists on the new web-site launching this autumn)
| No. | Author | Key Book | Why Recommended |
| 1 | Colin Turner | Shooting The Monkey
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Eastern and Western thoughts combined |
| 2 | Charles Handy | The Hungry Spirit | Cultural change in a management context |
| 3 | Anthony Robbins | Unlimited Power (Anthony Robbins!) | The definitive NLP guide |
| 4 | Eckhart Tolle | The Power of Now | Writing style that communicates directly with our subconscious |
| 5 | Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen | The One Minute Millionaire | Written in two styles – a business book and as story |
| 6 | Dale Carnegie | How to win friends and influence people | The all time classic and repeated many times in many guises by many people |
| 7 | Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene | The anti-thesis to The Naked Leader |
| 8 | James Redfield | The Celestine Prophecy | A spiritual phenomenon – rejected for years, self-published and has sold 10m copies plus! |
| 9 | Ken Blanchard | The One Minute Manager | The fast message – the book that changed the style of leadership books |
| 10 | Tony Buzan | Use Your Head | My hero and he is British! |