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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Reading in the Wild
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Dare to Lead
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
A History of the American People by Paul  JohnsonBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson1776 by David McCulloughGeneral George Washington by Edward G. LengelThe Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack
CSAF Reading List - 2006
16 books — 1 voter

Cars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet by K.C. HiltonMake Me an Offer I Can't Refuse by Susan RiehleLean In by Sheryl SandbergMean Girls at Work by Katherine CrowleyTrials of the Working Parent by K.C. Dreisbach
Top Working Woman List
30 books — 9 voters
Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clien... by Portia PorterAlienation of Affections by Portia PorterNever Split the Difference by Chris VossBeaver vs. Beaver, a legal comedy by Portia PorterTypography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick
Books for Young Lawyers
25 books — 9 voters

First Light by Geoffrey WellumGods of Tin by James SalterJimmy Stewart by Starr SmithJohn Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power by John Andreas OlsenOn the Edge of Earth by Steven Lambakis
CSAF Reading List - 2008
11 books — 1 voter

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it. ...more
James Agate

Indeed, the most difficult part about becoming a professional is adopting the professional attitude and learning to be comfortable adhering to the given ideological framework, which some students find quite alien. When students fail to complete professional training programs, they almost always do so because they have problems adjusting their attitude, not because they are unable to learn the technical tricks of the trade. That is, people who drop out of school usually do so not because they lac ...more
Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives

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