Personal and Business Management books.

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Old standard.

>>1459715
Not trying to dissuade anyone from reading books, but I think for the kind of stuff you're talking about the best practice is... well to practice.

I actually would suggest for the emotional intelligence and communication stuff, take up an acting class for a couple of months. It'll help you work on your body language, your diction and vocal projection, but also one thing they teach you in acting is how to really analyze language, and play with something. You can take the same sentence, the same words and make it mean many different things.

As for time management:
>GTD by David Allen
I haven't read it but I've seen a lot of his lectures and it's light on the pseudo-science.


>7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Read part of it, it's full of fluff. the main take outs for me were:
>Always think in terms of mutual benefit instead of competitively
>"Keep Sharpening the saw", whatever your skill set is, don't let it get rusty, constantly be working on it and improving it.
This is a good insight:
>"You can find a clue to whether you now have the proactive habit by looking at how you speak. Do you find yourself using these expressions? “That’s the way I am.” There’s nothing I can do about it. “He makes me so mad!” My emotional life is outside my control. “I have to do it.” I’m not free to choose my own actions. For all of us, there are many things that concern us that we can’t do anything about, for now. But there are also things we can do. Proactive people work on their circle of influence - the people and things they can reach - and spend less energy on their much wider circle of concern. By keeping their focus on their circle of influence, they actually extend its area. As you become more proactive, you will make mistakes"

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I also forgot, for emotional intelligence look into:
Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne

Interesting little book that seems to over simplify human nature into a series of games, and three archetypes: Adult, Parent, Child. It's really useful tool to think of certain situations, and once you start reading the book you'll start seeing these situations appear all the time.

>>1459851
Now having said this, I suck, SUCK at time management so if anyone can suggest something that gives some workable techniques, I'd be very grateful.

Where I think I failed to gain anything from GTD was because I can't prioritize.
GTD is great if you know what you want to do, and by "know" I mean "know how" you will do it step by step. It has great advice like:
>"Anything you can finish in the next 2 minutes, do it NOW"

But the bigger picture stuff, prioritizing is where it was of no help.
And this is also where 7 Habits failed to help me, it's got this great thing about quadrants.
However, deciding urgency, evaluating if something needs my attention now or if it can wait is where I just fail horribly.

>Sorry for the blog. But this is my personal experience with this literature, your mileage may vary.