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12 Good Reads Expand your skills, gain insight, and get inspired with these top picks. Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David M. Cote During his 16 years as Chairman and CEO of Honeywell, David M. Cote grew the company's market capitalization from around $20 billion to nearly $120 billion. His book Winning Now, Winning Later offers 10 principles for addressing both short-term results and long-term goals—two targets that often seem at odds with each other, but which can be used in tandem to leverage bottom line results. Cote argues that while short-term performance often overwhelms the planning process, it is crucial for business leaders to determine the best plan for investing in long-term growth that will produce a maximum impact and ensure a legacy of successful operations. The Positivity Tribe: The Power of Positivity One Person at a Time by Christopher Wirth and Chris Wilberding Motivational speaker and "No Quit Living" podcast host Christopher Wirth teams with basketball coach turned EdTech executive in a guide to encourage business professionals on how to build a more positive attitude and approach in the life. e Positivity Tribe: e Power of Positivity One Person at a Time is predicated on the notion that positive energy is contagious and the concept of "paying it forward" will keep generating successive waves of positivity. e authors' mantra "We Rise by Lifting Others Up" is designed to enable readers to positively impact at least one person per day, resulting in a constantly widening circle of empowered and encouraged people. (Published by Motivation Champs) A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by David Susskind e notion of machines replacing humans in the workplace can be traced back for decades, albeit for either comic or science-fiction appeal. Today, however, digital technology is turning that once-fanciful concept into a harsh reality, with many workers facing obsolescence as their jobs are taken over by automated systems. David Susskind, a fellow in economics at Oxford University's Balliol College, presents A World Without Work as an erudite consideration of the double-edged sword created by a new high-tech workplace: the possibility of a future increased prosperity, with Big Tech dominating the socioeconomic environment coupled with a new wave of technology-induced unemployment across diverse professions. The Principles of Business: Understanding What Makes a Business Successful and Valuable to Society by Dave DeRose Dave DeRose became an entrepreneur with a one-man plumbing, HVAC, and refrigeration business. Despite a lack of business education, he managed to grow his operation into a 15-person company that took on a 50-mile service footprint; he also impressed the votes in Craig, Colorado, to elect him as their mayor. In e Principles of Business, DeRose shares his experiences and insights into the tools and strategies needed to start and maintain a small business, considering such issues as leadership, customer service, dealing with uncertain times and becoming involved in the community. "I originally wrote this book as a how-to manual for the new owners of the business I started to help them run it successfully," DeRose said. "However, as I was going through the process, I realized it was a good tool to share with any small business owner as well."