“Books come alive through exercise”
Mindset | Peak Performance | People | Marketing | Social Impact
Mindset
- The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: How to Run Your Business Without Letting it Run You by Sherry Walling
- Learning to Love Yourself by Gay Hendricks
Peak Performance
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
- First Intelligence: Using the Science & Spirit of Intuition by Simone Wright
- Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity by Edward Slingerland
People
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Marketing
- Drucker on Marketing: Lessons from the World’s Most Influential Business Thinker by William A. Cohen
- The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea when Everyone is Lying to You by Rob Fitzpatrick
Social Impact
Why Book Trainer?
So many ideas, so little execution.
We embrace training programs for health, sports, and music. Why not for business skills?
In just about any endeavor that’s important us, we realize the benefits practice and repetition. We hit the gym to tone our bodies; we shoot free throw after free throw in preparation for the big game; and we rehearse our act countless times before a performance. But when it comes to economically valuable skills, we leave our training program – and skills development – to chance.
A book, a blog, a speaker inspires us! But one week later, our lives have barely changed. We pay top dollar for degrees, yet still leave unequipped for new roles and industries. Why? Because through laziness or design, we haven’t been put through a training program.
Book trainer is based on a simple idea: skills should be embodied through exercise, repetition, and reflection.