Books We Like

At the Latimer Group, we have been thinking about and teaching communication skills since 2002. We have coached and trained thousands of professionals and are confident in our core frameworks. We are also always looking to learn new things (and discover old ideas) that resonate today. We are often asked what voices inspire us in our training and coaching work and the list below answers, at least in part, that question.  Happy reading!

• On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech with Style, Substance, and Clarity, Peggy Noonan (Harper Collins, 1998)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie (Gallery Books, 1936)
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury (Penguin Books, 1981)
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini (Quill, 1984)
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson et al. (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
• Ted Talks: Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris Anderson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)
• Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Amy Cuddy (Little, Brown and Company, 2015)
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek (Penguin Books, 2009)
• 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking, Lilyan Wilder (Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
• Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds, Carmine Gallo (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
• Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success, Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Harper Collins, 2014)
• To Sell is Human, Daniel Pink (Riverhead Books, 2012)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Random House, 2007)
• Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss (Penguin Random House, 2016)
• You’ve Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World, Paul Hellman (Amacom, 2017)