Two weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors - this year, by the way, with a focus on France - I'm also rustling a little in my library and recommending five books to you, because that's the only place where inspiring thoughts are in good hands.
These five books have been particularly helpful to me in my work, each in its own way, and I hope they do the same for you.
By the way: the links to Amazon are meant as a service to sniff around and in case you want to feed your Kindle right away. Every bookseller is happy about a purchase and gets every book in no time - sometimes the hand is turned around two or three times ...
The reward for this is that there is always a lot to discover during a visit to the bookshop, and I am also happy to receive relevant tips - not only from the non-fiction corner. Because no matter which shelf we stand in front of, my grandmother, old Story Dudette, stands next to us in spirit with her bookworm on a leash and whispers to us: "No Story. No Glory."
For all world champions of procrastination who want to end their successful career ...
For all those who are not only sick of "post-factual" factual, but the opposite ...
A wonderful essay in book form. A timeless classic - more relevant than ever in the post-factual age. Especially now, in times of election campaigns in Germany and Austria, almost a little comforting. The original of all anger books and an indispensable basic work of applied stupidity research from the pen of the American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt.
For all those who have to lead creative groups. So actually for everyone who has to lead ...
For all those who want to know how evolution turns us all into storytellers ...
The immense power of stories and storytelling is not an abstract assumption, but is deeply rooted in our humanity. Much more than that: it was only when evolution gave us the ability to define our existence through values that we became humans - storytelling animals. We think in stories, we explain the world to ourselves in stories, we share stories. Yes. We even dream in stories.
Jonathan Gottschall illuminates this scientific evolutionary aspect in "The Storytelling Animal" in an easy-to-read and engaging way. The perfect book for anyone who wants to know more about the origins and effects of story. By the way, there is also a TEDx Talk to it.
For all those who have realised that meaning has a special driving force in life as in marketing ...