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Check out the Illustrious team's favorite books and podcasts on business, strategy, culture, innovation and personal development.

BOOKS FROM ILLUSTRIOUS

Facilitation: A Human-Centered Guide to the Art of Collaboration 
Joran Slane Oppelt and Geoffrey T. Nelson

Visionary Leadership: How to Live Your Strategy, Create New Habits and Inspire Your Team 
​Joran and Jennifer Oppelt

The Visual Meetings Field Guide: How to Facilitate Great Meetings for Amazing Teams
Joran Slane Oppelt and Michelle Royal 

books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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The Big Leap
Gay Hendricks
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Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listenamzn.to/3thGVxS
Donald Miller

Business Made Simple
Donald Miller

Crucial Conversatons: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Joseph Grenny & Kerry Patterson

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
​Michael Bungay Stanier
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Daniel Coyle

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Brene Brown

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo

High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
Brendon Burchard

Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
Curtis Carlson and William Wilmot

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
​George Leonard

Measure What Matters
John Doerr

Metaphors We Live By 
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life - Before 8AM
Hal Elrod

Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
Howard Rheingold

The OKRs Field Book: A Step-by-Step Guide for Objectives and Key Results Coaches
Ben Lamorte

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller

Practicing Positive Psychology​
​Robert Biswas-Diener

Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results
Christina R. Wodtke

Reinventing Organizations (Illustrated Edition)
Frederick Laloux

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business
Gino Wickman

Systemic Team Coaching 
​John Leary-Joyce and Hilary Lines

The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation
Henri Lipmanowicz  and Keith McCandless

Testing Business Ideas
David Bland and Alexander Osterwalder

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman

True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results
Edgar Papke

Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance
David Sibbet

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
​Steven Pressfield

podcasts

Control the Room
​with Douglas Ferguson

Dare to Lead 
with Brene Brown

 HR Superstars
hosted by 15Five

Inside Strategic Coach
with Dan Sullivan & Shannon Waller

Masters of Scale
with Reid Hoffman

This Meeting Sucks
with Lauren Green

Dreams with Deadlines
with Jenny Herald

Download the first three chapters of our book,Visionary Leadership: How to Live Your Strategy, Create New Habits, and Inspire Your Team.