5 books for professionals interested in advancing their careers

5 books that I recommend to every professional interested in advancing their career:

1. Umesh Ramakrishnan - There's No Elevator to the Top: A Leading Headhunter Shares the Advancement Strategies of the World's Most Successful Executives

"There are a million handbooks on how to be a CEO. Most of them are just opinions."

"They also unanimously cautioned managers about changing their colors and beliefs to suit the office politics of the day. That's a prescription for failure, since there will come a day in which that individual looks in the mirror and discovers that he or she has lost a sense of self."

2. Stephen Cope - The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

"In many cases, perhaps even in most cases, the discernment of dharma is a difficult, even agonizing process. It is only born out of our wrestling matches with doubt, with conflict, and with despair."

"In the cultivation of dharma, there is nothing more important than understanding what conditions are needed, and relentlessly creating them."

3. Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

"If you want to identify a mission for your working life, therefore, you must first get to the cutting edge - the only place where these missions become visible."

"There's something liberating about the craftsman mindset: it asks you to leave behind self-centered concerns about whether your job is 'just right,' and instead put your head down and plug away at getting really damn good."

4. George Leonard - Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

"The truth begins to sink in. Going for mastery in this sport isn't going to bring you the quick rewards you had hoped for. There's a seemingly endless road ahead of you with numerous setbacks along the way and - most important - plenty of time on the plateau, where long hours of diligent practice gain you no apparent progress at all."

5. Donald Asher - Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why: 12 Things You'd Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead

"Skills do not separate the very successful from the merely successful; strategy does."

"Employers are not rewarding strong performers for their past contributions; they are investing in their future contributions."

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