The following books are ones that have been influential in helping many successful people (including lawyers) learn to work smarter.
If you want to discover how to get more work done, more easily, with less effort, then these are books that can help you tremendously (as they’ve helped me and many other attorneys).
BUT, if I were to recommend only one to buy, read and keep handy it would be Free to Focus, by Michael Hyatt.
Top Recommended Books
- Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, by Michael Hyatt
- The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy, by Chris Bailey
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- Wink – A Modern Day Parable of Wealth Beyond Words, by Roger Hamilton
- The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss
- Super Thinking: Make Better Decisions with Mental Models, by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
- The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown
- Brain Rules, by John Medina
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer
- Information Anxiety 2, by Richard Saul Wurman
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
- A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, by Cal Newport
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, by Nir Eyal
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, by Gino Wickman
- Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever, by Jason Fried
- Remote: Office Not Required, by Jason Fried
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
- Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, by Sam Carpenter
- The Ultimate Law Firm, by Craig Kahn
- The Power of A System, by John Fisher
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, by Robert Cialdini
P.S. If you appreciate these kinds of observations, you might want to read this as well.
