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How To Win Friends and Influence People. The 48 Laws of Power (do not take this to heart, just read and understand how they CAN apply in situations).

EDIT: Word, and also Persuasion by Ciandali (spelling is wrong) is a great book.

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

If you go with this one, there is a good course on the Art of War done by the Teaching Company you can get on iTunes, deepens what you get from an already powerful book

 

The Art of the Deal

Edit: this was a joke.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods."
 

*Anything by Malcom Gladwell.

*Anything in the Freakanomics Series.

Note: as mentioned with 48 Laws of Power (also a great read) above, some of the topics in these book series will appear ridiculous, ex: in Superfreakanomics there is a section about solving global warming with tubes the pump gases into the stratosphere. The main takeaways from these types of books are the methodologies behind them and the idea of thinking outside the box.

*Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh

*The Prince - Machiavelli

On a personal note, and without getting too political, if you're a republican read left leaning books, if you're a democrat read some of what the right puts out. Frame it to yourself as getting to "know thy enemy", if you find it hard to pick up stuff like that. Honestly, knowing what drives people on both sides of the isle and how they think, will help you with all the soft skills that you can't get by hammering away at a spreadsheet for 12+ hours a day.

 

I think the 48 Laws of Power are a pretty good substitute for The Prince as well if you don't want to get bogged down in 16th century literary language

The fool thinks himself to be a wise man, while the wise man thinks himself to be a fool.
 

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