Recommended Reading


  

A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection

By James B. Stockdale

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Acceptable Risk

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Rick has a featured segment in this film
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Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results

By Paul R. Niven

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Billabong Odyssey

By Ken Bradshaw, Ken Collins, and Brian L. Keaulana
Rick's favorite surfing video
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Bold Women, Big Ideas: Learning To Play The High-risk Entrepreneurial Game

By Kay Koplovitz and Peter Israel

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Business Plans That Work: For Your Small Business

By Alice H. Magos

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Closing the Leadership Gap: Add Women, Change Everything

By Marie C. Wilson

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

By Kerry Patterson

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

By Charles MacKay

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First, Break all the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers do Differently

By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By David Allen

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

By Jim Collins

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How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients

By Jeffrey J. Fox

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How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style

By John H. Brown and Kathryn B. Carroll

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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

By Valerian Albanov, David Roberts, Jon Krakauer, Alison Anderson
One of Rick's favorite adventure books
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Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition)

By Robert B. Cialdini

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Make a Name for Yourself: Eight Steps Every Woman Needs to Create a Personal Brand Strategy

By Robin Fisher Roffer

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Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

By Gordon MacKenzie

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

By Edwin Lefèvre

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Sold Short: Uncovering Deception in the Markets

By Manuel P. Asensio, Jack Barth

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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy

By David H. Maister

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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

By John C. Maxwell

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Stephen R. Covey

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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By Peter F. Drucker

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The Great Crash of 1929

By John Kenneth Galbraith

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The House of Rothschild: Vol 1: Money's Prophets 1789-1848

By Niall Ferguson

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The Millionaire Next Door

By Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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The Money Lenders

By Anthony Sampson

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The Money Masters

By John Train

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The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams

By Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Donald Carew

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The Post-American World

By Fareed Zakaria

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The Power of Agreement

By Brian D. Molitor

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The Practice of Management

By Peter F. Drucker

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder

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The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

By Stephen M.R. Covey, Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill

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The Traders

By Sonny Kleinfeld

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The Wall Street Journal Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself

By Terri Cullen

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They Call Me Coach

By John Wooden

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Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System for Taking Control

By Julie Morgenstern

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Touching the Void

By Simon Yates, Joe Simpson
Rick's favorite climbing video
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

By Richard Nelson Bolles

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