Every month, Thrivner employees engage in a book club, with the selection rotating among each member of the team. Criteria for the books are that it must be non-fiction (good non-fiction), and it must relate to our clients, our company, and/or what we are doing. Some examples of the readings are:
- David Allen, Getting Things Done
- Jono Bacon, People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Business, Brand, and Teams
- Archie Brown, The Myth of the Strong Leader
- Bréne Brown, Daring Greatly; Rising Strong; Braving the Wilderness; Dare to Lead
- Jason Calacanis, Angel
- Steve Case, Third Wave
- Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
- Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Forces for Good: The Six-Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
- Charles Duhigg, Power of Habit
- Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
- Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
- Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
- Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Chip and Dan Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
- William Isaacs, Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together
- Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution; Leonardo da Vinci
- Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here
- Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
- Jake Knapp, Sprint
- Phil Knight, Shoe Dog
- Charles Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape the World
- Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Kelly McGonigal, Willpower Instinct
- J.D. Meier and Michael Kropp, Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life
- Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World; Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Michelle Obama, Becoming
- Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
- Daniel Pink, Drive
- Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Gretchen Rubin, The Four Tendencies
- Chad Sanders, Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
- Tony Schwartz, The Way We Work Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance
- Simon Sinek, Starting with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Jeff Sutherland, Scrum
- Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
- Tara Westover, Educated
- Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
- Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
We also include podcasts in our discussions; typically, we choose episodes of This Week in Startups. Some of our previous episodes are:
- Episode #683: Nancy Lublin with the Crisis Text Line
- Episode #681: Shivani Siroya, the founder of Tala.co
- Episode #677: Chris Sacca, talking about Tala.co
- Episode #651: Trello CEO Michael Pryor
- Episode #637: Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck
We follow How I Built This with Guy Raz as well. Those episodes are: Patagonia – Yvon Chouinard
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