Built to Lead

004 - Learning to Read


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Leaders are readers, so the old adage goes. But what if you are one of those people who "just don't read"? Meet Dallas Martin. A professed non-reader. Learn how he went from not reading since high school to reading nearly 60 books in 2018!

Here is Dallas' 2018 List:

Title / Author

Unbeatable Mind / Mark Divine

Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor Frankl

Start With Why / Simon Sinek

Abundance / Peter Diamandis

1984 / George Orwell

Tribes / Seth Godin

The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander

Tale of Three Kings / Gene Edwards

To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee

David and Goliath / Malcolm Gladwell

Capacity / Chris/Matt Johnson

Daring Greatly / Brené Brown

Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck / Mark Manson

Mansfield's Book of Manly Men / Stephen Mansfield

Manhood Restored / Eric Mason

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury

The Art of War / Sun Tzu

The War of Art / Steven Pressfield

States of Denial / Stanley Cohen

Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison

How to Survive a Shipwreck / Jonathan Martin

The Obstacle is the Way / Ryan Holiday

Drive / Daniel Pink The Power of Less / Leo Babauta

In Cold Blood / Truman Capote

Never Split the Difference / Chris Voss

Leadership and Self-Deception / The Arbinger Institute

Relentless / Tim S. Grover

Next Generation Leader / Andy Stanley

Everybody Always / Bob Goff Between

The World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fire Next Time / James Baldwin

Team of Rivals / Doris Kearns Goodwin

Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln / James Humes

Patton on Leadership / Alan Axelrod

The Remains Of The Day / Kazuo Ishiguro

Fight Club / Chuck Palahniuk

Wild at Heart / Jonathan Eldridge

Braving the Wilderness / Brené Brown

The Customer Service Revolution / John R. Dijulius III

The Last Arrow / Erwin Raphael McManus

Reclaiming Conversation / Sherry Turkle

Influence / Robert Cialdini

The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho

The Master Coach / Gregg Thompson

Chasing Excellence / Ben Bergeron

The Anatomy of Peace / The Arbinger

Institute Dear Boys / Dustin Kaehr

The Stranger / Albert Camus

Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe

How the Mighty Fall / Jim Collins

One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Martian / Andy Weir

Scary Close / Donald Miller

Thinking Fast and Slow / D. Kahneman

Then We Came to the End / Joshua Ferris

The Holy Bible (ESV) / Multiple

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