Boomers, Midlife Celebration wants to know how committed you are to reading influential books, because there’s very little time to indulge in reading for self-improvement. If we read many books, we’re bound to find a few home runs. A few of jeff noel’s most impactful reads:
- Linchpin, Poke The Box & We Are All Weird, Seth Godin
- The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
- Creating Magic, Lee Cockerell
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
- Anything You Want, Derek Sivers
Any must reads you’d like to recommend?
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8 replies on “Mid Life Celebration Asks, What Has Been The Most Influential Book You’ve Read In The Past Three Years And Why?”
I have to name two; Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell and Be Our Guest – Perfecting the Art of Custoner Service.
While I am not in the magic business, I can still create magical moments for my guests that will keep them loyal.
David, great books. Got any non-Disney great reads?
PS. These are the two best books on Disney’s business side, in my humble opinion.
Thanks for sharing. Have an awesome Wednesday!
Yes. The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn.
Jeff,
Here’s a few that stand out in my mind:
Building Your Leadership Resume by Johnny M. Hunt
How to Become CEO by Jeffrey J. Fox
Poke the Box by Seth Godin
The Rules of the Game by Kurt Hohenstein (more for the context for which the book was written than the book itself)
Inside the Magic Kingdom: Seven Keys to Disney’s Success by Tom Connellan
Bob
David, mark Sanborn is first class all the way.
Bob, very nice list. Several I’ve never heard of. That’s one of the things about social media that is so cool – the sharing of diverse thoughts and sources of inspiration.
Jeff,
I use The Rules of the Game: Simple Truths Learned from Little League in my ethics classes I teach because of how the book was written. The author was a very successful lawyer, state senator, and Little League coach, but he got caught stealing money from clients. The book was written from prison in Nebraska, and what he does is goes back through all of the life lessons he had learned growing up on the ball field that he had lost a sense of when he became a successful adult. If you didn’t know the background of the author, you would think it was something similar to the “Everything I learned, I learned in kindergarten” kind of concept. It is a very good book on ethics!
Bob
Bob, what an unusual context. A successful man writing his book from prison. Wow. Sounds powerful.