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Reading list from 2018 into 2019

Last year was a great year to read from technology to philosophy.  I enjoyed reading classics such as, Man's search for Meaning, as well as Michelle Obama's memoir on Becoming.  My favorite Business book was Unscaled as it predicted that economies of scale will reverse as we develop more efficient artificial intelligence and other technologies to enable smaller, creative and more effective groups of entrepreneurs to continue to fuel the worldwide innovation and transformation.  My last read for the year was The Tribe of Mentors; it was almost 600 pages and I frankly kept getting diverted to other books that were recommended by the mentors.  In 2018 I shared many of my book reviews on Linkedinblogs and others on Amazon.

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Books are our windows into different worlds, people, places, and times.  While I read many more books during the year, I list below 20 of my favorite reads  – they are not in order except the first which I have read twice and plan to read again in 2019. All with one exception are non-fiction. The fiction book was a Orpha book club pick and is one of the best fiction books I have read in years.

1.    Mans Search for Meaning

2.    Principals Ray Dalio

3.    The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected works of Joseph Campbell)

4.    Good to Great the Social Sector

5.    The Sun Does Shine

6.    Tribe of Mentors

7.    Becoming

8.    High Growth Handbook

9.    The Obesity Code

10.  E-Myth Mastery

11.  Unscaled

12.  Prediction Machines:  The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

13.  An American Marriage(fiction)

14.  Barracoon:  The Story of the last Black Cargo

15.  A World of Three Zeros:  The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon

16.  The Color of Law:  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

17. Ocean Shift:  Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

18.  How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

19.  Get Big Things Done:  The Power of Connectional Intelligence

20.  The Hero’s 2 Journeys

Next on the Reading list for 2019

1.    The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s case for the existence of the soul

2.    The Four Agreements

3.    The New Jim Crow

4.    Stamped From the Beginning

5.    Explosive Growth