The Spring Media Reading List

The best books (many of which are required reading here). Buy one, two or all of them. Your business will be better for it!

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

Authored by the father of advertising, Ogilvy outlines his principles for designing a great advertisement (as well as a bad one). Despite being more than 30 years old, these principles still hold today.

Freakonomics

Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

This eye-opening introduction to behavioural economics will challenge you to look at the world through a different lens.

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

One of the best business biographies out there.

Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World

Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley “wisdom” leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humour that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love.

Good To Great

Jim Collins

A must read for anyone that provides consulting services for clients. Good To Great outlines proven methods for running a great company.

Frenemies

Ken Auletta

An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled

The Power of Empathy

Arthur Ciaramicoli

Arguing that empathy is the driving force behind love, the author shows readers how to bring this all-important trait to the fore in relationships.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to apply these understandings. Our favourite book on the fundamental principles of persuasion.

My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising

Claude Hopkins

Gain a lifetime of experience from the inventor of test marketing and coupon sampling — Claude C. Hopkins.

Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior

Nick Kolenda

Using principles from cognitive psychology, Nick Kolenda developed a unique way to subconsciously influence people’s thoughts. He developed a “mind reading” stage show depicting that phenomenon, and his demonstrations have been seen by over a million people across the globe.

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