This summer, if you’re not able to
Adapt to the heat,
PR Daily has
The Help you need. Instead of sitting around and watching the
Groundswell,
Engage in some literary delights.
As you may have guessed, those italicized, hyperlinked words are the names of books—not just any books, but the ones that members of
PR Daily’s LinkedIn Group said they plan to read this summer.
Based on the titles they shared, it seems PR pros plan to read books for work and for pleasure. Here are some of the PR and business-related titles they mentioned:
• The Game Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan
• Sharing Hidden Know-How: How managers solve thorny problems with the knowledge jam by Katrina Pugh
• HumanKind by Tom Bernardin and Mark Tutssel
• Me 2.0 by Dan Schawbel
• Media, Organizations and Identity by Lilie Chouliaraki
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Other members plan to dig out some classics or go for lighter reads. Here are some of them:
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• A few of our group members are fans of Stieg Larrson’s books
• What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind by Debra Ollivier
• Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
• If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster
• Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
Members shared a number of other top picks. Visit
our LinkedIn group to see more, and happy reading!