On my Bookshelf
(or “how I have funded Amazon”)
2008 (so far…)
(not started yet) We-Think - Charles Leadbeater
(not started yet) The Idea Generator - Ken Hudson
(Brill) The Black Swan - The impact of the highly improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(Great) The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
(Eye-opening) Straw Dogs - thoughts on humans and other animals - John Gray
(Self-important CRAP) Playing With Fire - Gordon Ramsay
(Brill, better than the title suggests) The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferris
(Brilliant and humbel) iWoz - Steve Wozniak (w/ Gine Smith)
(not finished yet) Mavericks At Work - William C Taylor & Polly LaBarre
2007
(A bit old now) The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
(Fab) We Are Smarter Than Me - Barry Libert & Jon Spector
(Easy to dip in and out of) Small Is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs,… - Seth Godin
(Required reading) Smart Start-ups - David Silver
(Excellent) The Slight Edge - Audio Book - Jeff Olson (recommended by my friend Amit Neman)
(MUST read this) Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The Innovator’s Solution - Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor
The Harvard Business Review on Innovation - The Harvard Business Review
Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution - Geoffrey Moore
(Eye-poppingly common sense) The Cluetrain Manifesto - Chris Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Rick Levine (how did I miss this book for so long)
2006
Why Most Things Fail - Paul Ormerod
The Future of Advertising - Joe Cappo
Naked Conversations (How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers) - Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
Branding Unbound: The Future Of Advertising, Sales, and the Brand Experience In the Wireless Age - Rick Mathieson
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
UML for Dummies - Michael J. Chonoles, James A. Schardt
UML Toolkit - Hans-Erik Eriksson, et al
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
Connected Marketing: The Viral, Buzz and Word of Mouth
Revolution - Justin Kirby
All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough
Strategy - Constantinos Markides
The Google Story - David A. Vise
Search Me: The Surprising Success of Google - Neil Taylor
2005
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Project Management for Dummies - Stanley Portney
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Words That Change Minds: Mastering the Language of
Influence - Shelle Rose Charvet
Get Clients Now!: 28-day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants - C.J. Hayden
Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others - James Flaherty
Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and
Purpose - Sir John Whitmore
2004
Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, HR Professionals and Coaches - Angus McLeod
Accounts Demystified: How to understand financial accounting and analysis - Anthony Rice
Rich Dad, Poor Dad 2: Cash Flow Quadrant - Robert T. Kiyosaki
I’d Like the World to Buy a Coke - David Greising
Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton, John Huey
What They Still Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark H. McCormick
2003
Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schulz
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong
Rasputin: The Last Word - Edvard Radzinsky
Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder - Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer
Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual
Workplace - Ricardo Semler
The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World
Order - Samuel P. Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
2002
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the
Universe - Stephen W. Hawking
It’s Not About Size - Dickinson, Richard Branson
Do Something Different - Jurgen Wolff, Sir Richard Branson
The Beermat Entrepreneur - Mike Southon, Chris West
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork - John C. Maxwell
The Performance Factor : Unlocking the Secrets of
Teamwork - Pat MacMillan
Buddhism Plain and Simple - Steve Hagen
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living - Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler
2001
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management - Arjan Van Weele
The Power of Now - Ekhart Tolle
Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne W. Dyer
Collaborative Advantage : Winning Through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks - Jeffrey H. Dyer
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering) - W.Y. Evans-Wentz
2000
The Ecology of Eden - Evan Eisenberg
Rules For Revolutionaries - Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
The Metabolic Typing Diet - Wolcott William L.
Functional Training: Everyone’s Guide to the New Fitness Revolution - Chek Paul
Profitable Product Management - Richard A. Collier
