The Bookshelf

Books worth your evenings — read, weighed and recommended by The Times of Talent.

4 books
Drive — Daniel Pink · 2009 Drive — Daniel Pink · 2009 The popular case for autonomy, mastery, and purpose — useful as a frame, lighter on evidence than it sounds. Talent Is Overrated — Geoff Colvin · 2008 Talent Is Overrated — Geoff Colvin · 2008 Written for executives rather than researchers, and still the one of the clearest popular accounts of what separates top performers. Mindset — Carol Dweck · 2006 Mindset — Carol Dweck · 2006 The book that put beliefs about ability on the corporate agenda — and the one whose claims have been most tested since. Range — David Epstein · 2019 Range — David Epstein · 2019 The counterargument to early specialization — and a useful corrective to the practice literature.