Recommended Reading
Here are some of the better books I've read, grouped by category. The top picks in each are the ones I've found most developmental, thought-provoking, inspiring or pragmatic.
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Anthropology, identity and social commentaryBusiness biography, narrative and journalismBusiness, GeneralDecision-makingDesign, GeneralDevelopment workflow and managementEconomics and financeError and incompetenceIntellectual propertyInnovation and creativityInterpersonal skillsManagement consultingPersonal development and performancePhilosophyPricingPsychologyRandomness, risk and uncertaintyResearchSales and marketingStartups and entrepreneurshipStrategySystem dynamics and complexityUX/UI and service designWriting and presentation skills
Anthropology, identity and social commentary
Top picks
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character— Riesman, David
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves— Arthur, W. Brian
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival— Glubb, John Bagot
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory— Graeber, David
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence— Keltner, Dacher
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There— Brooks, David
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America— Ehrenreich, Barbara
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are— Walker, Rob
Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular— Thompson, Derek
I, Pencil— Read, Leonard Edward
Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being— Akerlof, George A.
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked— Alter, Adam
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations— Chua, Amy
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind— Harari, Yuval Noah
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society— Gardner, John W.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work— Crawford, Matthew B.
Status Anxiety— de Botton, Alain
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now— Lanier, Jaron
The 48 Laws of Power— Greene, Robert
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve— Stewart-Williams, Steve
The Evolution of Cooperation— Axelrod, Robert
The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature— Sun, L.
The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle— Zahavi, Amotz
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better— Cowen, Tyler
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity— Appiah, Kwame Anthony
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living— Wiking, Meik
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation— Ridley, Matt
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains— Carr, Nicholas
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World— Abram, David
The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work— Alvesson, Mats
The Why of Consumption— Huffman, Cynthia
Understanding Human Values— Rokeach, Milton
Business biography, narrative and journalism
Top picks
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed— Rich, Ben R.
Against the Odds: An Autobiography— Dyson, James
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success— Thorndike Jr., William N.
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life— Venter, Craig J.
Augustine's Laws— Augustine, Norman R.
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry— Robertson, David C.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future— Vance, Ashlee
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal— Ewing, Jack
Getting There: A Book of Mentors— Sega, Gillian Zoe
How To Build A Car— Newey, Adrian
IBM and the Holocaust— Black, Edwin
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman— Chouinard, Yvon
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry— McNish, Jacquie
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony— Morita, Akio
My Story— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Never Leave Well Enough Alone: The Personal Record of an Industrial Designer— Loewy, Raymond
Muji— Morrison, Jasper
Norman Foster - Talking And Writing— Foster, Norman
Oakley— Oakley
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger— Munger, Charles T.
Scoring Points: How Tesco Continues to Win Customer Loyalty— Humby, Clive
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike— Knight, Phil
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big— Burlingham, Bo
Sony: A Private Life— Nathan, John
Steve Jobs— Isaacson, Walter
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers— Horowitz, Ben
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century— Hargittai, István
The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age— Cracknell, Andrew
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer— Liker, Jeffrey K.
Business, General
Top picks
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career— Grove, Andrew S.
The Tyranny of Metrics— Muller, Jerry Z.
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants— Gladwell, Malcolm
High Output Management— Grove, Andrew S.
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom— Kasparov, Garry
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers— Harford, Tim
Images of Organization— Morgan, Gareth
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy— Shapiro, Carl
Parkinson's Law— Parkinson, C. Northcote
Principles: Life and Work— Dalio, Ray
Psychological Safety: The key to happy, high-performing people and teams— Radecki, Dan
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies— Page, Scott E.
Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments— Thomke, Stefan H.
Managing Your Boss— Gabarro, John J.
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs— Doerr, John
Rework— Fried, Jason
The Clayton M. Christensen Reader— Christensen, Clayton M.
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done— Drucker, Peter F.
The Responsible Company: What We've Learned From Patagonia's First 40 Years— Chouinard, Yvon
The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think— Raynor, Michael E.
Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy— Magretta, Joan
Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future— Tunguz, Tomasz
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business— Christensen, Clayton M.
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth— Christensen, Clayton M.
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action— Pfeffer, Jeffrey
The Practice of Management— Drucker, Peter F.
Decision-making
Top picks
Thinking, Fast and Slow— Kahneman, Daniel
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right— Gawande, Atul
How We Decide— Lehrer, Jonah
Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice— Marchau, Vincent A. W. J.
The Art of Thinking Clearly— Dobelli, Rolf
Design, General
Top picks
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business— Esslinger, Hartmut
Apple Design— Schulze, Sabine
Beauty— Scruton, Roger
Collapsibles, The Genius of Space-Saving Design— Mollerup, Per
Design: Intelligence Made Visible— Bayley, Stephen
Design in Britain— Design Museum
Designed for Kids— Richardson, Phyllis
Designing Design— Hara, Kenya
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With— Turkle, Sherry
Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition— Elam, Kimberly
Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design— Antonelli, Paola
Less but Better / Weniger, aber besser— Rams, Dieter
Popular Mechanics The Art of Mechanical Drawing: A Practical Course for Drafting and Design— Willard, William
Prototyping for Designers: Developing the Best Digital and Physical Products— McElroy, Kathryn
The Design of Everyday Things— Norman, Donald A.
The Elements of Design: Rediscovering Colors, Textures, Forms, and Shapes— Oei, Loan
The Genius of Design— Sparke, Penny
The Laws of Simplicity— Maeda, John
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture— Doczi, György
The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World— Jenson, Scott
The Violin Maker: A Search for the Secrets of Craftsmanship, Sound, and Stradivari— Marchese, John
What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages— Potter, Norman
What Is Product Design?— Slack, Laura
Development workflow and management
Top picks
Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects— DeMarco, Tom
Writing Better Requirements— Alexander, Ian F.
Agile Estimating and Planning— Cohn, Mike
Business Analysis— Paul, Debra
Death March— Yourdon, Edward
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager— Lopp, Michael
Scaling Lean & Agile Development Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum— Vodde, Craig
Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle— Alexander, Ian F.
The Art of Agile Development: Pragmatic Guide to Agile Software Development— Shore, James
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering— Brooks Jr., Frederick P.
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development— Cohn, Mike
Economics and finance
Top picks
Financial Intelligence— Berman, Karen
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy— Frank, Robert H.
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered— Schumacher, Ernst F.
50 Economic Ideas— Conway, Edmund
Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive's Guide— Cokins, Gary
Cost Management Guidebook— Bragg, Steven M.
Cost Reduction Analysis: Tools and Strategies— Bragg, Steven M.
Driving Down Cost: How to Manage and Cut Costs--Intelligently— Wileman, Andrew
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond— Nelson, Robert H.
Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports— Ittelson, Thomas R.
Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL— Martin, Roger L.
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy— Minsky, Hyman P.
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages— Pérez, Carlota
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor— Marks, Howard
Error and incompetence
Top picks
Human Error— Reason, James
The Human Contribution— Reason, James
Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology— Chiles, James R.
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents— Reason, James
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence— Dixon, Norman F.
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen— Buchanan, Mark
Why We Make Mistakes— Hallinan, Joseph T.
Intellectual property
Books
Essentials of Intellectual Property— Poltorak, Alexander I.
Examples & Explanations for Intellectual Property— McJohn, Stephen M.
Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company's Intellectual Property— Sherman, Andrew J.
Intellectual Property Strategy— Palfrey, John
The Economist Guide to Intellectual Property— Johnson, Stephen
Innovation and creativity
Top picks
Alchemy – The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense— Sutherland, Rory
The Creative Act: A Way of Being— Rubin, Rick
A Technique for Producing Ideas— Young, James Webb
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future— Pink, Daniel H.
Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas— Adams, James L.
Six Thinking Hats— de Bono, Edward
Stanley Kubrick: Interviews— Phillips, D. Gene
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World— Merholz, Peter
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm— Kelley, Tom
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life— Tharp, Twyla
The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation— Grudin, Robert
The Myths of Innovation— Berkun, Scott
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques— Michalko, Michael
Interpersonal skills
Top picks
Influence— Cialdini, Robert
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind— Kline, Nancy
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success— Grant, Adam M.
Charm: An Essay— Bayley, Stephen
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ— Goleman, Daniel
Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both— Galinsky, Adam
How to Win Friends and Influence People— Carnegie, Dale
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone— Goulston, Mark
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It— Voss, Chris
The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over— Schafer, Jack
Management consulting
Top picks
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong— Stewart, Matthew
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World— Kiechel III, Walter
Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin— O'Shea, James
The Seven C's of Consulting: The Definitive Guide to the Consulting Process— Cope, Mick
The Witch Doctors— Micklethwait, John
Personal development and performance
Top picks
Four Thousand Weeks— Burkeman, Oliver
Mastery— Greene, Robert
Man's Search for Meaning— Frankl, Viktor E.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work— Currey, Mason
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle— Pressfield, Steven
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones— Clear, James
Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life— Agrawal, Radha
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World— Newport, Cal
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World— Newport, Cal
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance— Hutchinson, Alex
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life— Robinson, Ken
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance— Duckworth, Angela
Healing and Recovery— Hawkins, David R.
How to Find Fulfilling Work— Krznaric, Roman
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living— Carnegie, Dale
How Will You Measure Your Life?— Christensen, Clayton M.
Human Performance— Matthews, Gerald
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World— McRaven, William H.
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment— Leonard, George
Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Unlock Your Potential to Achieve Anything— Twigger, Robert
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation— Campbell, Joseph
Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music— Kurtz, Glenn
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard— Heath, Chip
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking— Burkeman, Oliver
The Buddha In Daily Life— Causton, Richard G.
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self— Easter, Michael
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living— Harris, Russ
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance— Gallwey, W. Timothy
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life— Partanen, Anu
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance— Kotler, Steven
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change— Covey, Stephen R.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness— Housel, Morgan
The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life— Twist, Lynne
Philosophy
Top picks
Meditations— Marcus Aurelius
Ego Is the Enemy— Holiday, Ryan
42 Fallacies— LaBossiere, Michael
Being a Man— Twigger, Robert
Ideas and Opinions— Einstein, Albert
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life— Garcia Puigcerver, Hector
On Bullshit— Frankfurt, Harry G.
Science and Human Values— Bronowski, Jacob
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin (1856)— Syrus, Publilius
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph— Holiday, Ryan
The System of Objects— Baudrillard, Jean
Pricing
Top picks
Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything— Simon, Hermann
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably— Nagle, Thomas T.
Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table— Holden, Reed K.
The Psychology of Price: How to use price to increase demand, profit and customer satisfaction— Caldwell, Leigh
Priceless: The Hidden Psychology of Value— Poundstone, William
The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow— Mohammed, Rafi
Psychology
Top picks
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience— Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály
Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster— Kayes, D. Christopher
The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress— Thayer, Robert E.
The Pursuit of Pleasure— Tiger, Lionel
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance— Festinger, Leon
Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling— Alcock, James E.
Beliefs, Attitudes and Values: A Theory of Organization and Change— Rokeach, Milton
Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works— Higgins, E. Tory
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution— Watzlawick, Paul
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others— Trivers, Robert
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us— Pink, Daniel H.
Emotion: The Science of Sentiment— Evans, Dylan
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life— Ekman, Paul
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain— Barrett, Lisa Feldman
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like— Bloom, Paul
Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior— Deci, Edward L.
Psychology of Emotion— Niedenthal, Paula M.
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles— Lipton, Bruce H.
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others— Sharot, Tali
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil— Zimbardo, Philip G.
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory— Shaw, Julia
The Nature of Human Values— Rokeach, Milton
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less— Schwartz, Barry
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business— Duhigg, Charles
Understanding Human Values— Rokeach, Milton
This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics— Hall, Sean
Randomness, risk and uncertainty
Top picks
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable— Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets— Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk— Bernstein, Peter L.
Reckoning With Risk: Learning to Live With Uncertainty— Gigerenzer, Gerd
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases— Kahneman, Daniel
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions— Gigerenzer, Gerd
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life— Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction— Tetlock, Philip E.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking— Fuller, R. Buckminster
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives— Mlodinow, Leonard
The Taming of Chance— Hacking, Ian
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen— Buchanan, Mark
Research
Top picks
Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research— Sharon, Tomer
Contextual Design: Design for Life— Holtzblatt, Karen
Market Research in Practice: An Introduction to Gaining Greater Market Insight— Harrison, Matthew
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights— Portigal, Steve
Rapid Contextual Design— Holtzblatt, Karen
Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods— Baxter, Kathy
Sales and marketing
Top picks
How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know— Sharp, Byron
Advertising for People Who Don't Like Advertising— KesselsKramer
Building Distinctive Brand Assets— Romaniuk, Jenni
Connecting With Consumers: Marketing For New Marketplace Realities— Kimmel, Allan J.
Consumer Behaviour: Applications in Marketing— East, Robert
Contagious: Why Things Catch On— Berger, Jonah
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers— Moore, Geoffrey A.
Fanatical Prospecting— Blount, Jeb
How Brands Grow: Part 2: Emerging Markets, Services, Durables, New and Luxury Brands— Romaniuk, Jenni
Key Marketing Metrics— Farris, Paul W.
Market Segmentation: How to do it, how to profit from it— McDonald, Malcolm
Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality— Berry, Leonard L.
Mastering Customer Value Management: The Art and Science of Creating Competitive Advantage— Kordupleski, Ray
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind— Ries, Al
Sensory Marketing: Research on the Sensuality of Products— Krishna, Aradhna
SPIN Selling— Rackham, Neil
The Business of Belief— Asacker, Tom
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation— Dixon, Matthew
The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty— Dixon, Matthew
The Essence of Value: Secrets of Desired Products— Pricken, Mario
The Wallet Allocation Rule: Winning the Battle for Share— Keiningham, Timothy L.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy— Patnaik, Dev
Startups and entrepreneurship
Top picks
Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise— Sarasvathy, Saras D.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship— Drucker, Peter F.
European Founders at Work— Santos, Pedro Gairifo
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company— Blank, Steve
The Lean Startup— Ries, Eric
Strategy
Top picks
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters— Rumelt, Richard P.
Strategy— Hart, B.H. Liddell
Strategy Safari— Mintzberg, Henry
The Art of War— Sun Tzu
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy— Miyamoto Musashi
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance— Porter, Michael E.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors— Porter, Michael E.
Customer Moat: How Loyalty Drives Profit— Sung, Eddie
Jane Austen, Game Theorist— Chwe, Michael Suk-Young
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works— Lafley, A.G.
The Business Model Navigator: 55 Models That Will Revolutionise Your Business— Gassmann, Oliver
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization— Drucker, Peter F.
Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why some organisations consistently outperform others— Goddard, Jules
Winners Take All - The 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy— Seba, Tony
System dynamics and complexity
Top picks
Thinking In Systems: A Primer— Meadows, Donella H.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder— Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Complexity and the Economy— Arthur, W. Brian
Complexity: A Guided Tour— Mitchell, Melanie
Goldratt and the Theory of Constraints: The Quantum Leap in Management— Techt, Uwe
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy— Arthur, W. Brian
Living With Complexity— Norman, Donald A.
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems— Gunderson, L.H.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking— Sherwood, Dennis
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement— Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution— White, Frank
UX/UI and service design
Top picks
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs— Kocienda, Ken
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques— Mullet, Kevin E.
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance— Wickens, Christopher D.
Primer of Visual Literacy— Dondis, Donis A.
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design— Hoekman Jr, Robert
Bringing Design to Software— Winograd, Terry
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design— Cooper, Alan
Buyer Personas: How to Gain Insight into your Customer's Expectations— Revella, Adele
Designing Interactions— Moggridge, Bill
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices— Saffer, Dan
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services— Goodwin, Kim
Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action— Hoekman Jr, Robert
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability— Krug, Steve
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application— Fried, Jason
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed— Nielsen, Jakob
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites— Morville, Peter
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data— Few, Stephen
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction— Preece, Jenny
Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions— Ash, Tim
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior— Young, Indi
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design— Buxton, Bill
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web— Garrett, Jesse James
The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas— Adlin, Tamara
The Information Design Handbook— O'Grady, Jenn Visocky
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web— Mulder, Steve
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World— Stickdorn, Marc
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases— Stickdorn, Marc
Visual Grammar: A Design Handbook— Leborg, Christian
Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads— Loveday, Lance
Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works— Cotler, Emily
Writing and presentation skills
Top picks
The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose— Sword, Helen
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking— Minto, Barbara
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft— King, Stephen
Envisioning Information— Tufte, Edward R.
Fucking Good Content— Kelsall, Dan
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery— Reynolds, Garr
Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers— Murray, Donald M.
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers— Humes, James C.
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds— Gallo, Carmine
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller— Truby, John
The Elements of Style— Strunk Jr., William
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.— Tufte, Edward R.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running— Murakami, Haruki
Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama— Leith, Sam
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear— Luntz, Frank
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence— Cron, Lisa
Write to the Point: A Master Class on the Fundamentals of Writing for Any Purpose— Leith, Sam