Book recommendations

Workplace

The 5 Types of People Who can Ruin Your Life - Bill Eddy

Narcissistic personality traits and gaslighters are so toxic and so prevalent in the workplace it seems. I sense that there is a lot of experience that we all have in the industry of dealing with people like this and also shared strength and resources to help each other through it.

We discussed the need for developing skills around conflict resolution. Crucial Conversations the book and the course were mentioned. They also produce a regular email newsletter and have recently rebranded as Crucial Learning.

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink,

Turn The Ship Around, by David Marquet.

Radical Candor, by Kim Scott

How to win friends and influence people

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

If You Want to Write Brenda Ueland

Science of the mind

The Confidence Code, Presence, and Mindset

Amy Cuddy and her book on bringing your boldest self (I highly recommend this book)

Article - Facial expressions influence your mood

Biographies

Lab Girl (a book that sounds absolutely fascinating)

Braiding Sweetgrass - this one was hard to categorize. The blurb says “As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).”

Movies/Documentaries

Picture a Scientist (a documentary about women in sciences)

Finding the Mother Tree (book) is going to be made into a movie staring Amy Adams.

Fly Like a Girl (only the trailer - no idea where to find the full movie)

Magazines

National Geographic had a great cover about trees, the article is about beating the heat and how redlining practices in the US resulted in hotter communities.

Educational

Lynne Boddy's Fungi & Trees , video, video:

Field Guide to Wood Decay Fungi on Florida Trees (A Handy Aid to Arborists in the Southeast US)

Witness Tree - Lynda Mapes

The Hidden Life of Trees

Finding the Mother Tree

"Faith in a Seed'...Henry David Thoreau. His last manuscript. The theme is about plant succession but is really about growth and change.

Comanche Marker Trees - written by Texas native Steve Houser, this book examines the legend of trees bent by people in the Comanche tribe to serve as markers

Personal Development

Brene Brown

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Atomic Habits by James Clear - this book should be read by EVERYONE and it is super easy to read, or listen via audible. Highly recommend

any Brian Tracy books are good too!

"Eat That Frog" is another of Brian Tracy that I really enjoy!

Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg

Get Things Done by David Allen.

Quiet by Susan Cain