The Book Nook

The Book Nook is a monthly column courtesy of Handley Regional Library System that shares reading recommendations on business topics, career advice, leadership, and more to help drive your business – and career – forward.

The three titles selected here are available as an eBook or audiobook on Hoopla, a free streaming platform for the community, with your library card. Learn more and start reading and listening at www.handleyregional.org/hoopla.

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination Chip Bell eBook

To surprise and awe your customers, Bell advises developing co-creation partnerships with them. Co-creation partnerships are about fulfilling customers’ hopes and aspirations, not just their needs and expectations. This requires (1) curiosity that uncovers insight, (2) grounding that promotes clear focus, (3) discovery that fosters risk-taking, (4) trust that safeguards partnership purity, and (5) passion that inspires energized generosity.

Leading Through Challenges: 13 Weeks of Friday Forward Robert Gazer, WSJ Best Selling Author eBook

When Robert decided to e-mail his team on Friday mornings a message for their personal growth, he had no idea what he was starting. The team loved them, and began to share outside of their company. Suddenly he had requests to send to leaders, and when the list became unmanageable, opted to create subscribers.

Find Your Passion, Build Your Career Malcolm Johansson Audiobook

Would you like to uncover what you were truly meant to do on this planet? What if you could turn your life purpose into a sustainable career filled with passion? This book has been written to help out all those who need to be reassured in their possibilities to live a meaningful life by pursuing whether a conventional or an unconventional career in agreement with their life purpose and passions.