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Thank you for your excellent 2024 recommendations! I noticed links to Amazon. Could you include resources for independent booksellers? For example, Indie Bookstore Finder with urls for local bookstore searching/ordering options https://www.indiebound.org/ and https://bookshop.org/ that supports local, independent bookstores? Thank you!

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No books written by Latino authors among those 12? Is this selection including a fair share of authors of color? Whose viewpoints and how-tos do we keep reading and following?

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Ordered the Audible versions of:

-Languishing by Corey Keyes

-The Amen Effect by Sharon Brous

-Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

-Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, and Robert MacCoun

Well thought out intriguing list!

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Thanks for the plug for our book, The Friction Project. Huggy and I appreciate being in such wonderful company

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Thank you so much for sharing this list. I want to read one per month…

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Finally a book on flourishing. I have been dealing with this on and off for several years. And no one really understands what it is.

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My goal this year is actually to read less “new age” non fiction aka what could be a blog post turned 270 page book (I keep falling for that) and to focus on fiction or some non-fiction classics.

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A book a month, yes that can happen. But, which order, which one(s) might be outdated towards the end of 2024 so much changes so fast.

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nice list but please stop linking amazon, they are killing independent bookstores.

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Thank you 🙏🏻

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Great to see that Carl Newport has a new book coming up. I really enjoyed Digital Minimalism and it did help me reframe my use of social media (not heavy, but definitely quite distracting) and how and where I spend my time online. I'm sure Slow Productivity will be a good read.

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Great list! March jumps out at me as I have flashbacks of silently cursing google classroom as I try to get a Chromebook to cooperate and help my six year old come off mute while simultaneously working for Accenture. No pressure. 😅I don’t miss those days but curious to hear how much 2020 played a role. Go Blue!

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What a huge gift Adam! Thank you.

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Thank you for the superb recommendations.

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Very helpful and hopeful new ideas!

Is it OK to offer another new idea and practice for an evolved leadership call Ed We the Leader in capsulates in a book of that title published by McGraw-Hill?

This unique and proven process evolves leadership with these 3 new ideas and proven practices.

1. Contrary to prevailing leadership dogma, it is impossible to lead others, yet together, we can lead teams, projects, and organizations into consistent collective flow, that 'WOW! We did it. Again!!' experience.

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Hi Adam, great list. We are also expected a new third edition of The Solutions Focus in May. After 22 years, it's a real classic :-)

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