10 INSPIRING BOOKS FOR YOUR CAREER

It has been scientifically proven that reading enhances intelligence, memory, and social life. But also books have a great influence on creativity, innovation, improving personality, and serve as an inspiration for life and career, whether you are a beginner or an advanced professional.

In addition, we offer you a list of books published by Ars Libris, which will inspire you and help you progress in your career, no matter in which area. We offer you several inspirational biographies and autobiographies of the greatest visionaries from different professional areas, as well as books that will motivate you to work on yourself and will enhance your confidence.

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

Susan Cain

For a long time, those who are naturally silent, serious or sensitive have been overlooked. The loudest dominated – even when they had nothing to say. But in spite of such opinions, many of the successful figures are actually – introverted.

At least one third of the people we know are introverted. Those are the ones who listen more than they speak, they prefer reading rather than crazy parties, they want to create and innovate but do not want self-promotion.

This book represents a small revolution in how one sees the introverted figures. Susan Kane in “Silence” tells how the world underestimates the introverts. She describes how the brain works in introvert, how in extrovert individuals, and how the world sees both of them. Caine also gives tools to the introverts how to better understand themselves and maximize their capacities and advantages, to force their strength.

A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

J. Gallagher Hateley Warren H. SchmidtSam Weiss  Ken Blanchard

“Peacock in the Land of the Penguins” gives insights on the issues of creativity and innovation in the workplace – in a very sympathetic way.

Using the concept of a fable and following the adventures of the Peruvian Pawn and other exotic birds that try to find a place under the sun in the Earth of the Penguins, it helps us to see what can happen when we fully and courageously try to express ourselves  in an environment created by executives and managers who see the world very differently from us.

Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

Noah J. Goldstein   Steve J. Martin  Robert Cialdini

What part of the office material can increase your impact? Which one word will increase your conviction? How can you become a Jedi Master of Social Impact? What is the active ingredient of lasting success? Why would someone choose “Mercedes” and fall in love with “BMW”?

You would certainly like your colleagues to agree more with you, your children write their homework, and neighbors stop throwing garbage around.

Whether you work in marketing, advertising, management or sales, or just being curious how to be more influential in everyday life, the book “Yes!” will help you discover how through small changes, scientifically proven, changes in your approach can have dramatic effects on your convincing skills.

Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Richard Branson

This is a true and exciting story of the entrepreneur behind “Virgin’s” empire. Richard Branson in his own words tells about his life and his personal philosophy of living. And when it comes to business, but about other things, Sir Richard Branson has a simple philosophy: have fun as much as you can – even if it requires you to break all the rules!

It is the philosophy that, at the age of sixteen, made him gave up from school to establish the revolutionary “Student” magazine (when he was told he was supposed to become a criminal or a millionaire), to name the music company Virgin (Meaning a virgin, reflecting his inexperience in business). Over the years, he managed to release some of the most important albums in music history, such as those of Sex Pistols, Janet Jackson and Rolling Stones, to crash many world records with his crazy adventures and build a billion-dollar business empire. This is his story, told in his own words and like everything else about Branson – party.

Richard Branson’s autobiography is much more than just a set of records and memoirs – it is a display of his life and the way of work that are all just not ordinary. But, more importantly, it is also an ultimate business guide that reveals his unique philosophy of trading, remarkable success and his life.

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz

On February 26, 2008, customers of 7,300 Starbucks stores in the United States were asked to leave. In the next three hours, every barista in every Starbucks was re-introduced into the art of preparing perfect espresso! The event was unprecedented, but it proved how more defeated things are becoming in a company that could not afford yet another mistake.

The second most difficult thing in the business is to build a successful enterprise – the hardest is to manage the upsets, yet to remain worthy of the core culture and the values ​​of the organization. This is a classic example of how this can be achieved.

“Forward!” By Howard Schulz is one of the most important books on leadership and the changing of our times, and for each generation of leaders.

Secrets of Steve Jobs’ innovation

Carmine Halo

Best-seller author Carmine Gallo shares Apple’s most famous, most original and most effective strategies of the CEO Steve Jobs, who awaken true creativity and innovation – in any job. Steve Jobs is not just one executive of a technology company. Steve Jobs is the man who changed the music distribution, recreated the mobile phone and changed the book publishing from the root.
In the “Secrets of Steve Jobs’ Innovation,” Carmine Gallo teaches us the right way of thinking of Steve Jobs and Apple. This book is not only for people in marketing and technology, although they will also benefit from such perceptions in their worlds. It is designed for all those who have an interest in technology and want to learn how to think in the direction of designing simple devices that will alter our lives.
The book is an inspiring action plan for anyone who wants to live a life filled with passion and purpose.

The Boy Billionaire: Mark Zuckerberg in his own words

George Beam

The seemingly famous story – another nerd that has succeeded in life. Mark Zuckerberg, a genius child, left Harvard to set up Facebook, a giant and a social network that redefines the world we know. He becomes the youngest billionaire in the world of all time, who earned his fortune by himself.

But the real story is more subtle. It’s about Zuckerberg’s transformation from a developer-lover, without any social skills, to a successful manager and an inspiring leader. How did Zuckerberg use his own hacker philosophy, described by slogans like “Move fast and break something” to create an incredibly successful business?

Covering everything, from the beginning of his early days to Harvard, to becoming a public company, and to the further, “The Boy Billionaire” is a detailed collection of Zuckerberg’s thoughts, statements and predictions about the future, as well as foreign observations of Zuckerberg and the phenomenon Facebook. Extracted from interviews, speeches, correspondences, and articles on Facebook, these revealing statements show the particular genius of the nerd.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The founders of Google

Stephanie Samartino McPherson

Google has infiltrated the daily lives of millions of people. But the giant company has very modest beginnings. In 1996, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were graduating students at Stanford University when they decided to invent a new way to search information on the Global Network. Their technology project soon became a search engine and company, named Google (Google). That browser has changed the way information is received and controlled on the Internet, making it easier to access, faster and more important.

Under the leadership of Brin and Page, Google became an international superpower with an endless amount of services – from Gmail to Google Earth to smartphones. Google is also known for its working offices of fantasy, complemented by a gourmet chef and scooters.

This biography of the two founders of Google is an inspiration for everyone, whether at the beginning of his career or an experienced professional or leader.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page continue to dream of exciting ventures in the future, and the world is waiting to see what’s next.

So, Anyway…

John Cleese

John Cliss’s autobiography, “So, Anyway…” is all that is expected from the author – lucid, thoughtful, provocative and, above all, a funny story about how a high, shy boy from Weston-super- Mer became a kind of legend.
In this intense and renowned memoir, Cleese guides readers to a big tour through his booming show business starting from the humble beginnings of his sleepy hometown and the early comedic days of Cambridge University (in the company of the future Monty Python “, Graham Chapman) until the founding of the famous comedy group that will bring world glory.
Through surprising stories and ridiculous digressions with short poetic breaks about what is ridiculous, according to one’s own well-defined definition, and why so, Cleese tells the personal metamorphosis of a young comedian in a master of performance. This extremely sensible and entertaining autobiography can serve as a useful reading for those who are thinking to enter (or want to progress) in show business.

Alex Ferguson: My autobiography

Alex Ferguson

The inspiring story, according to many, is the greatest manager of all time. A review of his modest beginnings, the few “bleak years” without the title of United’s bench, the Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Bat and Beckham Generations’ 92 Achievements, signing with Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, the rivalry with Wenger and Benitez, With Jose Mourinho – all the way to the exciting farewell game with West Bromwich at the end of the previous season.