I’m finally beginning to put together some thoughts on the project I first started thinking about here.
In terms of projects, I’m curious to see what the common themes are in the various leadership, organisational structure, internal comms books I’ve read are. It’s by no means academically rigorous – more just for me to feel I’m doing some grown-up reflection rather than vapid flicking through books.
I’ll be trying to sum up some of those common themes as I see them over the next few weeks but for now, if anyone is interested, the full list of books used is below. [The ones I found particularly helpful from a teaching/schools perspective are here]
(Links are done by a pretty blunt search but should take you to an Amazon page)
- An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education, Tony Little
- Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed
- Boyd, Robert Coram
- Conflicted, Ian Leslie
- Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
- Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!, Marvin R. Weisbord, Sandra Janoff
- Drive, Daniel H. Pink
- Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson
- Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink , Leif Babin
- Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- From Mercenaries to Missionaries, Martin Murphy
- Give and Take, Adam Grant
- Good Services, Lou Downe
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt
- How Google Works, Eric Schmidt
- How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb
- How We Learn, Benedict Carey
- Leadership Is Language, L. David Marquet
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Jocko Willink
- Leading Transformation, Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, Thomas Zoega Ramsoy
- Loonshots, Safi Bahcall
- Made to Stick, Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Measure What Matters J, ohn Doerr
- Multipliers, Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
- One Mission, Chris Fussell and Charles Goodyear
- Originals, Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott
- Range, David Epstein
- Remote, David Heinemeier Hansson et Jason Fried
- ReWork, Jason Fried und David Heinemeier Hansson
- Signals, Tristan Wood
- Simply Brilliant, William C. Taylor
- Sooner Safer Happier, Jonathan Smart
- Stand Up Straight, Paul Nanson
- Switch, Chip Heath und Dan Heath
- Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins, and Chris Fussell
- The Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
- The 80/20 Manager, Richard Koch
- The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch
- The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- The Connected Company, Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal
- The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle
- The Dragons and the Snakes, David Kilcullen
- The Hidden Half, Michael Blastland
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- The Multiplier Effect, Liz Wiseman, Lois N. Allen, and Elise Foster
- The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence, Robert Spector and Patrick D. McCarthy
- The Power of Not Thinking, Simon Roberts
- The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger
- The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
- The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker
- The Tyranny of Metrics, Jerry Z. Muller
- The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
- The Wayfinders, Wade Davis
- There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, Carlo Rovelli
- Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot, James B. Stockdale
- To Sell Is Human, Daniel H Pink
- Tools of Titans, Timothy Ferriss
- Turn the Ship Around!, L. David Marquet
- Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock
- You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt
- Zero to One, Blake Masters and Peter Thiel