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10 Good Reads Expand your skills, gain insight, and get inspired with these top picks. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon By Colin Bryar and Bill Carr From its global reach to its unorthodox recruitment strategies, Amazon has long been the gold standard for innovative workplaces. Now, you can get an inside look at the management philosophy that played a hand in the company's success straight from two long-standing former executives—Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. Bryar joined the company in 1998, four years after its founding and spent 12 years there, two of which he spent as "Chief of Staff " to Jeff Bezos. Carr joined Amazon a year after Bryar did and had a tenure with the company that spanned more than 15 years, most recently acting as VP of Digital Media. Together, Bryar and Carr provide a practical guidebook for how any company, large or small, can adopt the Amazon business model. The Introvert's Edge to Networking By Matthew Pollard with Derek Lewis If you're the type of person who would rather go to the dentist than a networking event, e Introvert's Edge to Networking is the business book you've been waiting for. A sequel to Matthew Pollard's popular e Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone, Pollard doesn't lead with tricks and gimmicks, but rather promises to help the reader develop a way to network that relies on being genuine and authentic. Rather than viewing introversion as an inherent weakness, Pollard shares how introverts can harness their strengths to target business connects, whether in person or across social media. Tarzan Economics: Eight Principles for Pivoting Through Disruption By Will Page Anyone following the daily headlines knows that it's a jungle out there—but just because the market has been disrupted doesn't mean you are on your own. In Tarzan Economics, author Will Page discusses how to make your business flexible and able to pivot against any market disruption. Page was the Chief Economist at Spotify, and in his book, he leverages that experience as well as real-life case studies to provide economic lessons that laypeople can understand. ere is no time like the present to fail-safe your business, and Page outlines eight guiding principles to help you do so. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home By Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Peterson In the past year, a record percentage of the American workforce shifted to remote work as companies navigated COVID-19 restrictions. Many workplaces however saw this shift as a short-term stop gap rather than a new employee incentive. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 33% of the U.S. workforce is still remote full time, down from 51% in April. Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Peterson, hope to change this way of thinking in their book Out of Office. Out of Office outlines how the type of remote work we are seeing during the pandemic isn't a true remote working structure and provides a path forward for how companies who are committed to a work-from-home model can make it both practical and profitable.