Living is learning. And we’re supposed to share our shit, right? So here’s a list of books I’ve read that I suggest you read too. I do not necessarily agree with everything these authors say. I add these titles here simply because I think they are worth a read. I’ve tried to sort the titles by topic, but this is not an exact science, you realize…
The links lead to the respective books at Amazon. There’s no Amazon affiliate thing going on. Just me saying check these books out.
Leadership and Management of Projects and Operations
Management Teams by R Meredith Belbin.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.
Slack by Tom DeMarco.
Leadership and the New Science by Margaret J Wheatley.
No Yelling: The 9 Secrets of Marine Corps Leadership You Must Know to Win in Business by Wally Adamchik.
The Rules of Management by Richard Templar.
The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard.
Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker.
Product and Service Development and Production
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn.
Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.
Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck.
Lean Software Development by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.
Scrumban – Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development by Corey Ladas.
Managing the Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertse.
Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg.
Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno.
Usability
Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman.
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug.
Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces by Carolyn Snyder.
Measuring the User Experience by Tullis & Albert.
Business, Marketing and Startups
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore.
Creativity and Innovation
The Art of Innovation – Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelly and Jonathan Littman.
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida.
Managing Creativity and Innovation by Harvard Business School Press.
Thinking and Teaching Tools
Problem Solving 101 by Ken Watanabe.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt.
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono.
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward de Bono.
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam.
Systems Thinking
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows.
Just plain Interesting
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Risk, The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner.
The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford.
The Logic of Life by Tim Hartford.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul M. Johnson.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
Intellectual Self Defense by Normand Baillargeon.
Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg.
Nonsense, How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language by Robert J. Gula.
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer.
Internet related stuff
Getting Real by 37signals.
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky.
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson.
Free – the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
Tribes by Seth Godin.
Purple Cow by Seth Godin.
Linchpin by Seth Godin.
On Writing and Journalism
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe.
The Gang Who Wouldn’t Write Straight by Marc Weingarten.
Write to Sell by Andy Maslen.
On Writing by Stephen King.
Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas
Essays by Michel de Montaigne.
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by T. Catchcart and D.Klein.
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Collected Writings: Common Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.
Funny and Clever
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt.
Holidays in Hell by P.J O’Rourke.
On The Wealth of Nations” by P.J O’Rourke.
Peace Kills by P.J O’Rourke.
Eat the Rich by P.J O’Rourke.
