Authors
The people behind the books — who they are, how they think, which book to start with, and where their ideas turn into Stations.
Al Switzler
The consultant and university lecturer who co-wrote Crucial Conversations and taught its method for thirty years.
Crucial Conversations
Andrew S. Grove
The engineer who ran Intel and wrote management down as a production process, one-on-one included.
High Output Management
Annie Duke
The poker professional who turned twenty years at the table into a science of deciding under uncertainty.
Thinking in Bets
Ben Horowitz
The CEO who ran a company through the dot-com crash and wrote down what the management books leave out.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
BJ Fogg
The Stanford behavior scientist who proved that tiny, celebrated behaviors beat big resolutions.
Tiny Habits
Blake Masters
The Stanford law student whose lecture notes became Zero to One.
Zero to One
Brené Brown
The researcher who spent years interviewing people about shame and found that vulnerability is where courage begins.
Daring Greatly
Brian Tracy
The speaker who reduced time management to one rule about order and sold it in forty languages.
Eat That Frog!
Bruce Patton
The co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project who took its method into the hardest conversations of ordinary life.
Difficult Conversations
Cal Newport
The computer scientist who made concentration a professional skill, and has never had a social media account.
Deep Work
Carmine Gallo
The communication coach who took apart the talks people actually watch to find what the best speakers do.
Talk Like TED
Carol S. Dweck
The Stanford psychologist whose research on fixed and growth mindsets changed how classrooms and companies talk about ability.
Mindset
Cass R. Sunstein
The legal scholar who took nudges from the seminar room into governments around the world.
Nudge
Charles Duhigg
The Pulitzer-winning reporter who explained the habit loop to the general reader.
The Power of Habit
Chip Heath
The Stanford professor who turned 'why do some ideas stick?' into a checklist anyone can run.
DecisiveMade to Stick
Chris Bailey
The writer who spent a year experimenting on his own productivity and came back with two modes of attention.
Hyperfocus
Chris Guillebeau
The writer who surveyed 1,500 people who started businesses with almost nothing and wrote down what they had in common.
The $100 Startup
Chris Voss
The FBI's former lead international kidnapping negotiator, who brought hostage tactics to everyday deals.
Never Split the Difference
Dale Carnegie
The Missouri farm boy whose 1936 course on dealing with people is still the honest version of persuasion.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dan Gardner
The Canadian journalist who turns research on risk and prediction into books people finish.
Superforecasting
Dan Heath
The co-author who brings the reporting: the stories that let a research finding be pictured.
DecisiveMade to Stick
Daniel Gilbert
The Harvard psychologist who showed that we are bad forecasters of our own happiness, and made the evidence funny.
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Goleman
The psychologist and science journalist who put emotional intelligence into the language and the amygdala hijack into the office.
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Kahneman
The psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for showing how people actually decide.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
David Allen
The consultant whose method for a clear head gave the world the next action, the two-minute rule and the weekly review.
Getting Things Done
David Heinemeier Hansson
The creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp's co-owner, who argues for small teams, calm work and doing less.
Rework
Douglas Stone
The Harvard lecturer who taught a generation to hear what a difficult conversation is really about.
Difficult Conversations
Eric Ries
The engineer-turned-founder who gave startups a scientific method and a vocabulary.
The Lean Startup
Gabriel Weinberg
The DuckDuckGo founder who catalogued the nineteen ways a startup can get customers.
Traction
Gary Keller
The real-estate founder who reduced productivity to a single question.
The One Thing
George S. Clason
The map publisher whose Babylonian parables became the most enduring short book on saving.
The Richest Man in Babylon
Greg McKeown
The strategist who turned 'less but better' into a discipline for choosing.
Essentialism
James Clear
The writer who made habit change a matter of systems, identity and one percent.
Atomic Habits
Jason Fried
The Basecamp co-founder who built a calm, profitable software company and argued that most startup advice is wrong.
Rework
Jay Papasan
The editor behind the ONE Thing, who turned a founder's method into a book people finish.
The One Thing
JL Collins
The blogger who wrote his daughter a series of letters about index funds, and gave a generation its investing plan.
The Simple Path to Wealth
Joe Dominguez
The Wall Street analyst who retired at thirty-one and spent the rest of his life teaching others how to need less.
Your Money or Your Life
Johann Hari
The reporter who argues that your attention was not lost but taken, and went looking for who took it.
Stolen Focus
Jonathan Haidt
The social psychologist who gave the divided self a rider and an elephant, and tested ancient wisdom against the data.
The Happiness Hypothesis
Joseph Grenny
The social scientist and co-founder of Crucial Learning who wrote the field's most used books on dialogue and influence.
Crucial Conversations
Julie Zhuo
The designer who became a manager at twenty-five with no training, and wrote the book she needed that week.
The Making of a Manager
Justin Mares
The Traction co-author who went on to build consumer brands with the channels he wrote about.
Traction
Kerry Patterson
The researcher who turned a study of people good at hard conversations into the standard corporate text on dialogue.
Crucial Conversations
Kim Scott
The manager who turned one blunt, kind piece of feedback into a two-axis framework for saying the hard thing.
Radical Candor
L. David Marquet
The submarine captain who stopped giving orders and turned the fleet's worst boat into its best.
Turn the Ship Around!
Marshall B. Rosenberg
The psychologist who spent a career mediating between people who could not talk, and reduced what he learned to four steps.
Nonviolent Communication
Michael D. Watkins
The professor who made the first ninety days in a new role a discipline with its own playbook.
The First 90 Days
Michael E. Gerber
The small-business consultant who named the technician trap and told owners to work on the business, not in it.
The E-Myth Revisited
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The psychologist who named flow, measured it with pagers, and argued that a life is the sum of what it attended to.
Flow
Mike Michalowicz
The serial founder who lost his money after two exits and built the account system that makes small businesses profitable from day one.
Profit First
Morgan Housel
The financial writer who argued that money is a soft skill, and that behaviour beats brilliance.
The Psychology of Money
Nathaniel Branden
The psychotherapist who made self-esteem a subject and then spent decades defending the strict version of it.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Neil Fiore
The psychologist who diagnosed procrastination as fear, not laziness, and prescribed thirty minutes and guilt-free play.
The Now Habit
Nir Eyal
The writer who explained how products hook us, then how to become indistractable anyway.
Indistractable
Patrick Lencioni
The consultant who drew team health as a five-layer pyramid and wrote it as a story.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Paul Jarvis
The designer who ran a one-person business for twenty years and wrote the case for staying small on purpose.
Company of One
Peter Thiel
The PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor who argues that competition is for losers.
Zero to One
Philip E. Tetlock
The psychologist who measured expert forecasts for twenty years and then found the amateurs who beat them.
Superforecasting
Ramit Sethi
The writer who replaced the budget with an automatic system, and guilt with a plan for spending on what you love.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Richard H. Thaler
The economist who put the actual human back into economics and won the Nobel prize for it.
Nudge
Rob Fitzpatrick
The founder who wrote the field manual for customer conversations that produce facts, not compliments.
The Mom Test
Robert Cialdini
The social psychologist who catalogued the six levers of persuasion, and taught the world to notice them.
Pre-SuasionInfluence
Roger Fisher
The Harvard law professor who turned negotiation from a contest of wills into a method.
Getting to Yes
Rolf Dobelli
The Swiss novelist and entrepreneur who catalogued ninety-nine thinking errors in three pages each.
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Ron McMillan
Co-founder of the Covey Leadership Center and one of the four authors of Crucial Conversations.
Crucial Conversations
Russ Harris
The doctor and therapist who turned acceptance and commitment therapy into plain books about fear, happiness and confidence.
The Confidence Gap
Sheila Heen
The Harvard Law lecturer who mapped the three conversations inside every difficult one, and then the art of taking feedback.
Difficult Conversations
Steven Pressfield
The novelist who spent years unable to finish and then named the force that stops everyone: Resistance.
The War of Art
Susan Cain
The former lawyer who made the case for introverts and started what she calls the Quiet Revolution.
Quiet
Susan Jeffers
The psychologist whose book title became the phrase for acting while afraid.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Thomas J. Stanley
The marketing professor who went looking for the rich and found them in ordinary houses driving used cars.
The Millionaire Next Door
Vicki Robin
The writer who turned a seminar on money and life energy into a book that started the financial independence movement.
Your Money or Your Life
Viktor E. Frankl
The Viennese psychiatrist who survived the camps and wrote, in nine days, the book on the last human freedom.
Man's Search for Meaning
Wendy Wood
The research psychologist behind the science the popular habit books repeat.
Good Habits, Bad Habits
William D. Danko
The marketing professor who co-wrote the study showing that wealth is what you keep, not what you earn.
The Millionaire Next Door
William Ury
The anthropologist of negotiation, who spent forty years studying how people say no and still reach yes.
Getting to Yes