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Top 5 Books for Supercharging Customer Experience, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Dare to C.A.R.E: Unlock your potential to transform your life, well-being and customer experience
by Carmen F. Vlasceanu PhD & Robert Richardson

2

The Customer Copernicus
by Charlie Dawson & Seán Meehan

3

The Human Experience: How to make life better for your customers and create a more successful organi
by John Sills

4

How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing
by Adrian Swinscoe

5

Think Human: The Customer Experience Revolution in the Digital Age
by Olivier Duha

Top 5 Books for Supercharging Customer Experience

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books for Lasting Personal Growth, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

The Human TOUCH: A mirror for self-reflection
by Sukaiyna Gokal

2

Self-Motivation Mindset: Achieve Unstoppable Drive with Empowered Strategies to Unleash Self-Discipl
by Laurie James & Penny K

3

Daily Self-Improvement: Practical Strategies for Personal Growth, Building Habits, and Achieving Suc
by K. Connors

4

Personal Development for Smart People
by Steve Pavlina

5

How to Be Better Book: A Complete Guide to Personal Growth (Self Help Books)
by Skriuwer .com

Top 5 Books for Lasting Personal Growth

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books on Becoming an Impactful CFO, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Financial Leadership Fundamentals: How to become a CFO in a startup or scaleup
by Alysha Randall

2

The CFO's First 100 Days: Strategies for Successful Transitions: A Comprehensive Guide to Leadershi
by Ed Wong

3

The Successful CFO: Key Areas the CFO Must Master
by Tony Tripodo

4

The 80/20 CFO: How to Make Strategic Transformations in Your Company
by Janice Berthold & Suzy Taherian

5

The Contemporary CFO: How Finance Leaders Can Drive Business Transformation, Performance and Growth
by Michael Haupt

Top 5 Books on Becoming an Impactful CFO

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books on Effective Team Coaching, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Mastering the Art of Team Coaching (Second Edition): An emergent approach to unleashing the potentia
by Georgina Woudstra

2

The Complete Corporate Coaching Toolkit : The Quintessential Guide for 21st Century Business Coaches
by Monica Jonsson

3

Building Top-Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive
by Lucy Widdowson & Paul J Barbour

4

Coaching the Team at Work 2: The definitive guide to team coaching
by David Clutterbuck

5

Coaching International Teams: Improving Communication, Inclusion and Productivity
by Alexandra Morgan

Top 5 Books on Effective Team Coaching

by Daisy Reynolds

American Revolutionaries, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

2

Eugene V. Debs Speaks
by Eugene V. Debs

3

The Haymarket Tragedy
by Paul Avrich

4

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary
by Carolyn Ashbaugh

5

Teamster Rebellion
by Farrell Dobbs

American Revolutionaries

by Franklin Ridgway

Top 5 Books on Crafting an Impactful Data Strategy, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Data Means Business: A practical guide to creating value from data and AI
by Jason Foster & Barry Green

2

Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
by Bernard Marr

3

Data and Analytics Strategy for Business: Unlock Data Assets and Increase Innovation with a Results-
by Simon Asplen-Taylor

4

Data Driven Business Transformation: How to Disrupt, Innovate and Stay Ahead of the Competition
by Peter Jackson & Caroline Carruthers

5

Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
by Carl Anderson

Top 5 Books on Crafting an Impactful Data Strategy

by Daisy Reynolds

Top 5 Books on Building Comfortable and Healthy Homes, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

1

Feel-Good Homes: How to choose the right heat pump for a comfortable, healthy, sustainable home
by Drew Tozer & Nate Adams

2

Design A Healthy Home: 100 Ways to Transform Your Space for Physical and Mental Wellbeing
by Oliver Heath

3

Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing
by Nick Baker & Koen Steemers

4

Passive House Made Simple: How to Build a Sustainable, Energy-Efficient, and Comfortable Home (The P
by Riley Carter

5

Health at Home: Sustainable and Healthy Building and Living
by Joachim Herrmann

Top 5 Books on Building Comfortable and Healthy Homes

by Daisy Reynolds

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists, recommended by Franklin Ridgway

1

The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
by Karl Marx & Frederic L. Bender

2

Essential Works of Lenin:
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

3

Reform Or Revolution And Other Writings (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by Rosa Luxemburg

4

History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky

5

Selected Writings
by Alexandra Kollontai

Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists

by Franklin Ridgway

Resilience, recommended by Kristal James

1

Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
by Rick Hanson PhD & Forrest Hanson

2

Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster
by Linda Graham

3

The Renaissance Mind: Forging Resilience in Mind, Body and Spirit
by Michael Day & Douglas Bertram

4

The Science of Emotional Resilience: Find Balance and Strength, Become Unbreakable, and Overcome Adv
by Peter Hollins

5

Resilience
by Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S Charney & Jonathan M DePierro

Resilience

by Kristal James

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math, recommended by Karen Carlson

1

Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
by Ben Orlin

2

Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
by Ben Orlin

3

The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking
by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

4

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Ian Stewart

5

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

Best Math Books for People who Don’t Do Math

by Karen Carlson

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