I was rereading Damn Good Advice by George Lois and I realized it is most likely one of my favorite self help books along with Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
Then there are the two Jocko Willink and Leif Babin leadership books, Extreme Ownership and the Dichotomy of Leadership. The first is clear and concise, the second is a necessary counterbalance to the literally extreme title.
And then Seth Godin’s most recent book This is Marketing, as well as his older classic The Dip. The first book is about selling, or as he defines it, making change in the world. The second is about quitting fast versus having grit and trying to navigate both great options.
And I need to re-read the massive tome Design for Ecological Democracy by my first architecture professor, Randy Hester.
Honorable mentions:
The One Thing
Essentialism
Dale Carnegie
Do it Tomorrow
The Leadership Pipeline
Throw in some “impractical” books like Invisible Cities and Labyrinths and that’s not a bad reading list at all.