One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was ‘you should read this book‘. After taking this advice the first time and finding it so valuable, I became an avid reader. The best part about this is that I’ve read a lot of books so you don’t have to – what a time saver!
Pocket Ninja Strategies’ coaching, courses, workshops and facilitation are backed by this this wealth of knowledge and 20 years of professional experience.
Book Nerd List

Highly Recommended
- Scaling Up / Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
- Lean Startup
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- No Asshole Rule
- Topgrading
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
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- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
- Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- David and Goliath
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
- Developing Management Skills
- E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do about It
- Metronome Effect: The Journey To Predictable Profit
- Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Never Split the Difference
- Who Moved My Cheese
- Tipping Point
- Crucial Conversations
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Exponential Organizations
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
- Negotiating Rationally
- Organizational Behaviour: Concepts, Controversies, Applications

- Epic Content
- Psychology of Selling
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
- Thank You Economy
- Digital Disruption
- To Sell is Human

Highly Recommended
- Untamed
- Atomic Habits
- Indistractable
- Never Eat Alone
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions
- Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- Super Attractor
- Five Minute Journal – Simplest, Most Effective Way to be Happier
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- Celestine Prophecy
- Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
- Alchemist
- Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights From Super Soul Conversations
- You Are a Badass
- You Can Heal Your Life
- White Hot Truth
- Power of Noticing
- Braving The Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
- Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
- Everything Is Fucked: A Book About Hope
- Everything Is Here to Help You
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life
- Crucial Conversations
- Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
- Law of Divine Compensation
- Leaders Open Doors: A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits and Performance
- Turning Pro
- Ultimate Marianne Williamson Library
- Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance
- Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Love
- Warrior Goddess Training
- Three Laws of Performance
- Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
- Crush It: Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion
- 4-Hour Work Week
- 10x Rule
- Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Fire Starter Sessions
- Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
- Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
- Daring Greatly
- Happiness Project
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
- Leader Who Had No Title
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable
- Success Principles
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
- Source (the): The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain
- StandOut
- Talking to Strangers
- Principles: Life and Work
- A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
- Rules of Work: Definitive Code for Personal Success
- Radical Acceptance

- Attached: The New Science Of Adult Attachment
- Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
- Crucial Conversations
- Dance of Anger
- Getting the Love You Want
- Love Warrior
- Love Is Not Enough

- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Becoming
- Bossypants
- Virgin Way
- More Myself (Alicia Keys)
- Measure of a Man
- Steve Jobs

- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- White Fragility
- Moment of Lift
- Rational Optimist
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Outliers
