I speak about using “Social Engineering at work” – how to gain and utilize positive influence to get things done – to help others learn how to play “the corporate game”, how to not lose themselves when practicing good office politics, and how to learn how to use influence to elicit changes at work.
I took a photo of the human-relevant section of my book collection (the part that is not in storage) to share some of the books that have helped me (see below):
Human Influence Books
From Left to Right:
- Unauthorized Access by Wil Allsopp and Kevin Mitnick
- Exercising Influence by B. Kim Barnes
- Open Source Intelligence Techniques by Michael Bazzell
- Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
- Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini
- Seeing the Big Picture by Kevin Cope
- How Societies Embrace Information Technology by James W. Cortada
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
- Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Dr. Paul Ekman
- Trusted Criminals by David O. Friedrichs
- The Non-Verbal Advantage by Carol Kinsey Goman
- Phishing Dark Waters by Christopher Hadnagy
- Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
- Unmasking the Social Engineer by Christopher Hadnagy
- The Hacker Playbook vol 1, Vol 2, and Vol 3 by Peter Kim
- The Chief Information Officer’s Common Body of Knowledge by James Cortada, Dean Lane
- To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
- Auditing IT Infrastructures for Compliance by Martin Weiss
- Building and Implementing a Security and Accreditation Program by Patrick Howard
NOT pictured because they are Kindle, storage, etc:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- HBR Guide to Leading Teams by Mary Shapiro (and, frankly, all of the HBR guides)
- The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength by Laurie Helgoe Ph.D.
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cai
- Etiquette by Emily Post
- Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual by Ben Clark
