Our Favourite Books

Explore our curated collection of materials designed to enhance
your forum experience and deepen your connections.

Explore 50+ books to spark your next forum conversation

Conversations for Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Our Working Relationships and Organizations by Fernando Flores

Fernando Flores

"Fernando and his disciple Toby deconstructed my brain and put it back together to make me the professional I am today." - Dan Hoffman

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Susan personally recommended several features in the CircleSpace technology. Did you realize that Forum is networking for the 50% of us that are introverts?

Become Unmistakable: Start the Journey from Commodity to Oddity

Mike Novakoski

Mike is a YPO legend in the Construction industry, and used Forum to build trust in his company and even among his subcontractors.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

I love this simple concept: checklists save lives in hospitals, keep planes in the air, and are under-used in your operations.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath & Dan Heath

The elephant, rider and path is the best metaphor ever for understanding how to people and organizatoins change.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

People can't stop themselves from giving advice, which no one wants.

Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success

Keith Ferrazzi

Ferazzi is an early Forum/peer group innovator that used peer group circles to help turn around General Motors.

The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

Josh Waitzkin

Great read. Josh's action-packed book is an inspiration for our learning philosophy.

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

Daniel Coyle

Neuroscience of human learning and change; will change your life.

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

W. Timothy Gallwey

Learning is simple, we just emulate people.

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

She's a poet and a facilitator, beatuifully laying out a theory of change for modern organizations.

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal

Stealing Fire suggests that small groups, when properly designed and trusted, can achieve collective altered states—“group flow”—that radically amplify creativity, cohesion, and performance. These insights are directly relevant to peer forums, leadership circles, and other small-group practices you’re exploring.

The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

Stephen M.R. Covey

This and other books by Covey exploring our big word "Trust."

The Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies

Paul J. Zak

Good social experiments, ala Harvard Business School, will convince you that trust is everything in business

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence is a whole oeuvre that rewards exploration, letting you work with and act on this most powerful of human motivators.

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke

Cools stories about a poker champ; Annie talks about Truthseeking groups ... just like Forum.

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

Verne Harnish

Verne! The original compilation of management insights into an actionable operating system, now practiced as scaling up and in our opinon lovingly borrowed to make EOS.

Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces

Etienne Wenger-Trayner & Beverly Wenger-Trayner

Communities of practrice is a body of work that has small groups at its heart. Learning communities like YPO are CoPs, and are a mega-trend.

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Frederic Laloux

Frederic inspires us all by showing there is a better way to organize. What's taking so long?

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Vivek Murthy

This resonated so loudly that the loneliness epidemic is practically a cliche now

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

Dan Buettner

Social relationships make you live longer.

Conversations for Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Our Working Relationships and Organizations by Fernando Flores

Fernando Flores

"Fernando and his disciple Toby deconstructed my brain and put it back together to make me the professional I am today." - Dan Hoffman

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Susan personally recommended several features in the CircleSpace technology. Did you realize that Forum is networking for the 50% of us that are introverts?

Become Unmistakable: Start the Journey from Commodity to Oddity

Mike Novakoski

Mike is a YPO legend in the Construction industry, and used Forum to build trust in his company and even among his subcontractors.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

I love this simple concept: checklists save lives in hospitals, keep planes in the air, and are under-used in your operations.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath & Dan Heath

The elephant, rider and path is the best metaphor ever for understanding how to people and organizatoins change.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

People can't stop themselves from giving advice, which no one wants.

Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success

Keith Ferrazzi

Ferazzi is an early Forum/peer group innovator that used peer group circles to help turn around General Motors.

The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

Josh Waitzkin

Great read. Josh's action-packed book is an inspiration for our learning philosophy.

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

Daniel Coyle

Neuroscience of human learning and change; will change your life.

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

W. Timothy Gallwey

Learning is simple, we just emulate people.

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

She's a poet and a facilitator, beatuifully laying out a theory of change for modern organizations.

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal

Conversations for Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Our Working Relationships and Organizations by Fernando Flores

Fernando Flores

"Fernando and his disciple Toby deconstructed my brain and put it back together to make me the professional I am today." - Dan Hoffman

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Susan personally recommended several features in the CircleSpace technology. Did you realize that Forum is networking for the 50% of us that are introverts?

Become Unmistakable: Start the Journey from Commodity to Oddity

Mike Novakoski

Mike is a YPO legend in the Construction industry, and used Forum to build trust in his company and even among his subcontractors.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

I love this simple concept: checklists save lives in hospitals, keep planes in the air, and are under-used in your operations.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath & Dan Heath

The elephant, rider and path is the best metaphor ever for understanding how to people and organizatoins change.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

People can't stop themselves from giving advice, which no one wants.