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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as professional)
avg rating 4.50 — 18,542 ratings — published 2009
Reading in the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as professional)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,574 ratings — published 2013
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as professional)
avg rating 4.11 — 134,692 ratings — published 2002
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as professional)
avg rating 4.10 — 262,749 ratings — published 2009
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as professional)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,122 ratings — published 2009
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as professional)
avg rating 4.09 — 172,410 ratings — published
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as professional)
avg rating 4.16 — 810,295 ratings — published 1989
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as professional)
avg rating 3.95 — 124,525 ratings — published 2009
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as professional)
avg rating 4.12 — 285,258 ratings — published 2001
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as professional)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,127,474 ratings — published 1936
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as professional)
avg rating 4.05 — 55,127 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as professional)
avg rating 4.17 — 575,125 ratings — published 2011
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as professional)
avg rating 3.95 — 268,151 ratings — published
Dare to Lead (ebook)
by (shelved 151 times as professional)
avg rating 4.18 — 123,908 ratings — published 2018
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as professional)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,742 ratings — published 2002
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as professional)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,375 ratings — published 2013
Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
by (shelved 140 times as professional)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,175 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as professional)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,886 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as professional)
avg rating 4.19 — 854,594 ratings — published 2008
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as professional)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,234,758 ratings — published 2018
The Daily Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as professional)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,025 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as professional)
avg rating 4.13 — 554,883 ratings — published 2012
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as professional)
avg rating 4.11 — 360,205 ratings — published 2011
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as professional)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,461 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as professional)
avg rating 4.01 — 848,866 ratings — published 2000
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as professional)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,125 ratings — published 2016
Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as professional)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,912 ratings — published 2012
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as professional)
avg rating 4.16 — 184,593 ratings — published 2016
Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as professional)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,112 ratings — published
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as professional)
avg rating 4.00 — 166,516 ratings — published 2001
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as professional)
avg rating 3.87 — 505,738 ratings — published 1999
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as professional)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,593 ratings — published 2004
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as professional)
avg rating 4.08 — 139,507 ratings — published 2016
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as professional)
avg rating 4.22 — 173,749 ratings — published 1984
Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as professional)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,096 ratings — published 2012
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as professional)
avg rating 3.98 — 98,499 ratings — published 2006
Strengths Finder 2.0 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as professional)
avg rating 3.93 — 56,643 ratings — published 2007
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as professional)
avg rating 4.03 — 54,599 ratings — published 2010
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as professional)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,840 ratings — published 2007
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The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD] (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as professional)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,768 ratings — published 1991
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as professional)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,131 ratings — published 2007
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as professional)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,506 ratings — published 2010
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as professional)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,999 ratings — published 2005
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as professional)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,440 ratings — published 2017
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 81 times as professional)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,498 ratings — published 2000
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as professional)
avg rating 4.07 — 82,144 ratings — published 1984
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as professional)
avg rating 3.98 — 36,808 ratings — published 2017
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as professional)
avg rating 3.85 — 36,609 ratings — published 2003
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as professional)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,753 ratings — published 1999
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as professional)
avg rating 4.29 — 239,065 ratings — published 2012
“You know how it is when a tricky job is going well because you're doing things the way they should be done, when you're working in rhythm and feel a reassuring confidence that everything's unraveling naturally and all will be right in the end. That's about it: I know what I was doing -- it's really what being a professional means.”
― A Month in the Country
― A Month in the Country
“We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
