Orr Group’s 2024 Favorites: Content That Shaped Our Perspectives This Year

Created By: Orr Group
December 19, 2024

Learning and growth are at the heart of who we are—as individuals, as teammates, and as a firm. Every day, we have the privilege of gaining valuable insights from our partners through the work we do together. But our education doesn’t stop there. We also pride ourselves on drawing inspiration and knowledge from a wide range of perspectives across industries, disciplines, and experiences.

Reflecting this commitment, our leadership has shared a collection of content that shaped their perspectives and informed their approach to work (and life) throughout 2024. We hope their recommendations resonate with you!

CJ Orr, Chief Executive Officer’s favorites:

📖 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin P. Hardy

📖 The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

🗞️ Wall Street Journal – Print Edition

Craig Shelley, CFRE, Partner & Chief Growth Officer’s favorites:

🎧 “Episode 189: A Rainmakers Journey to a $3 Million Book of Business” from the Pro Serv Podcast by Collective 54

📖 Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

📖 When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

Tal Alter, Managing Director’s favorites:

📖 Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do and Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed

🎧 “The Prince”, a Complete Series from The Economist Podcast

📺 “Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War”, a Netflix Series

Becca Bennett, Managing Director’s favorites:

📖 Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass by Nicol Turner Lee

📖 The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

📖 The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

Amanda Nelson, Managing Director’s favorites:

📖 Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

📖 The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

📖 This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura

Adam Glick, Vice President’s favorites:

📖 John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg

📖 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

📖 Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai

Piper Hardin, CFRE, Vice President’s favorites:

📖 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities by Bill Eddy

📖 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

📖 The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President by Edward F. O’Keefe

Patricia Gill, Senior Director and Head of Donor Engagement’s favorites:

🎧 “Coaching Real Leaders with Muriel Wilkins”, a podcast series by the Harvard Business Review

📖 Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts Of Social Purpose Drive Success And Wellbeing by Bea Boccalandro

🎧 “What the Fundraising”, a podcast series with Mallory Erickson

Ryan Grosso, Senior Director and Head of Capacity Building’s favorites:

📖 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

📖 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Lauren Kenny, Director’s favorites:

📖 Beating the Midas Curse by Perry L. Cochell and Rod Zeeb

🎧 “How Vanderbilt University is getting it right” from the podcast series “Call me Back – with Dan Snyder”

Wishing our community of changemakers another year filled with continued learning and growth.

Have any recommendations that have shaped your perspectives in 2024? Share them with us!