[Jay Heinrichs][1]. [Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion - How Ancient Rhetoric, Taylor Swift, and Your Own Soul Can Help You Change Your Life][2]. [Crown Publishing Group][3]. 2025.

Author interview with [Brett McKay][4] - 52 minutes

[Douglas E. Noll][1]. [De-escalate: how to calm an angry person in 90 seconds or less][2]. [Beyond Words Publishing][3]. 2017.

The author presents methods in detail enough for practising, with copious example dialogues.

  • Interview with [Josselyne Herman-Saccio][4] (35 minutes, [Video][5])
  • Author's own [videos][6]

[Steve Cadigan][1]. [Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working][2]. [Amplify Publishing Group][3]. Virginia. 2021.

Interview

  • [Remarkable Leadership July 29,2025][4] - 1 hour

Table of Contents follows below my list.

[Bruce Feiler][1]. [Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age][2]. [Penguin Press][3]. 2020.

Interviews

  • [Christopher Lochhead, Follow Your Different][4], 1.5 hours
  • [Srini Rao, Unmistakable Creative][5], 1 hour

[Peter Schwartz] [1]. [The Art of the Long View: the path to strategic insight for yourself and your company] [2]. [Currency (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group) [3]. 1991.

Along with [Life in 2030] [4], The Art of the Long View is a book that would have helped for my entire engineering career.

The first time I encountered scenario planning was reading through resources for improving non-profit boards in 2020. The 2020 Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia Conference session on leading through uncertainty deepened my understanding, which helped. (Anthony Taylor, SME Strategy, "Leading through uncertainty")