Books Recommended by Virginia LeBlanc
Read the interview: Virginia LeBlanc
In Virginia LeBlanc’s words:
Question: What books had the biggest impact on you? Perhaps changed the way you see things or dramatically changed your career path.
Answer:
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
- Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter
- Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey
- The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
- Divergent series by Veronica Roth
A mash up, I know…some simple others profound but just as important, eye-opening, and affirming. These and so many more helped change how I see things, my thinking and being, and helped to understand and accept my divergent (differing/deviating) career path in life.
Books by Virginia LeBlanc
6 books recommended by Virginia LeBlanc
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia
I guess I would choose Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia for the brilliant, reachable, utopian view of free-enterprise capitalism with a mind toward higher purpose and humanistic virtues in business.
Divergent Series
I was unfamiliar with Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, until the movie. I was instantly drawn in and captivated by the connotations and underlying social commentary on our conditioned minds and thinking. I found such resonance and finally acceptance of the many diverging paths life has… Read the full quote
I was unfamiliar with Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, until the movie. I was instantly drawn in and captivated by the connotations and underlying social commentary on our conditioned minds and thinking. I found such resonance and finally acceptance of the many diverging paths life has taken me down. Particularly, Divergent, was my take off and coining of “divergent thinking” and birthing of my saying “think without a box”. Processing that it was okay to embrace who I was—an agent for intercession and change who had to be divergent and diverse in a number of ways, including and most importantly thinking.
