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Coach Eddie’s Recommended Books
Coaching and Player Development
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (Amazon)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (Amazon)
- The 7 Habits if Highly Effective Teens (Amazon)
- Tom Byer’s Soccer Starts at Home eBook (Amazon)
- Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for getting Better at Getting Better (Amazon)
- The Coaches Guide to Teaching (Amazon)
- Changing the Game: The Parent’s Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids (Amazon)
- Every Moment Matters: How the World’s Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams (Amazon)
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. (Amazon)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Amazon)
- Legacy: What The All Blacks Can Teach Us About The Business Of Life (Amazon)
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Amazon)
- Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion (Amazon)
- The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players (Amazon)
- Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Amazon)
- Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success (Amazon)
- A Game Plan For Life: The Power of Mentoring (Amazon)
- Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life (Amazon)
- Success Is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life (Amazon)
- The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently (Amazon)
- Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography (Amazon)
- Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success (Amazon)
Systems Thinking/Productivity
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Amazon)
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Amazon)
- Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done (Amazon)
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Amazon)
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (Amazon)
- Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (Amazon)
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Amazon)
- The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? (Amazon)
Personal Development
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life (Amazon)
- Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier (Amazon)
- From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life (Amazon)
- Mastery(Amazon)
- Change is Your Competitive Advantage: Strategies for Adapting, Transforming, and Succeeding in the New Business Reality (Amazon)
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Amazon)
- Principle-Centered Leadership (Amazon)
- Idea of Excellence: The Pursuit of Purpose, Passion & Performance (Amazon)
- Best Self: Be You, Only Better (Amazon)
- Live Your Dreams (Amazon)
- It’s All in Your Head: Thinking Your Way to Happiness: The 8 Essential Secrets to Living a Life Without Regrets (Amazon)
- The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive (Amazon)
- The Happiness Project (Amazon)
- Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation (Amazon)
- Patterned after Excellence: Pursuing Truth in Work and Life (Amazon)
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Amazon)
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (Amazon)
- Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation (Amazon)
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Amazon)
- How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters (Amazon)
- The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment (Amazon)
- Man’s Search for Meaning (Amazon)
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Amazon)
- Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within (Amazon)
- The Art of Significance: Achieving The Level Beyond Success (Amazon)
Deep Thought
- Marcus Aurelius – Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Amazon)
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (Amazon)
- Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (Amazon)
- Stoicism – Purpose and Perspectives: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Happiness: How to Practice Stoicism in Your Daily Life (Stoic Philosophy) (Amazon)
- The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Amazon)
- Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent (Amazon)
- Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life (Amazon)
- A Simple Path (Amazon)
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Amazon)
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Amazon)
- Outliers: The Story of Success (Amazon)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Amazon)
- A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Amazon)
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Amazon)
- Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Amazon)
Shine
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Amazon)
- Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (Amazon)
- The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey (Amazon)
- Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson (Amazon)
- The First Phone Call from Heaven: A Novel (Amazon)
- The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream (Amazon)
- The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant: Twelve Keys to Successful Living (Amazon)
Organizational Leadership
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (Amazon)
- The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey (Amazon)
- An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (Amazon)
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Amazon)
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All (Amazon)
- How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth (Amazon)
- Principles: Life and Work (Amazon)
- Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference – The Revolutionary Old-School Approach (Amazon)
- Leadership and Self-Deception, Fourth Edition: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results (Amazon)
- The Anatomy of Peace, Fourth Edition: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (Amazon)
- The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves (Amazon)
- The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything (Amazon)
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty (Amazon)
- The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery (Amazon)
- It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Amazon)
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (Amazon)