This page shares a current book reading list that I draw organization talent, change, and design thoughts from history through economics.
This reading list has links to Amazon Associates for further details. Some books are made available through NetGalley who collaborate with authors and publishers to read, review, and help promote upcoming releases.
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Books in Rotation:
- Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science: Building Skills for an AI-Driven Enterprise by Daniel Vaughan
- Change Questions: A Playbook for Effective and Lasting Organizational Change by D. Lynn Kelley, John Shook
- Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python by Joel Grus
- The Digital Transformation Roadmap: Rebuild Your Organization for Continuous Change by David L. Rogers
- Essential Math for Data Science: Take Control of Your Data with Fundamental Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics by Thomas Nield
Books Read:
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible
- Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
- Introduction to Generative AI
- Agentic AI Agents: Outperform Competitors in 30 Days—The Practical Roadmap for Business Leaders
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- The Art of AI Product Development
- To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
- Traction - Get a Grip on Your Business
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You
- Against Empathy
- Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science: Building Skills for an AI-Driven Enterprise
- Fix that Business
- The Science of Change: Discovering Sustained, Desired Change from Individuals to Organizations and Communities
- Think Faster, Talk Smarter
- A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
- Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy
- The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
- AI-Assisted Programming: Better Planning, Coding, Testing, and Deployment
- The Future Is BIG: How Emerging Technologies are Transforming Industry and Societies
- The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- Generative AI in Action
- The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
- A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
- A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
- Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
- Architecting for Scale: How to Maintain High Availability and Manage Risk in the Cloud
- Practicing Lean Accounting
- Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
- Identifying and Managing Project Risk - Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project
- The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
- Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
- Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
- Being Agile, Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile
- Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
- Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
- Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
- What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences
- Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
- The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year (Agile Software Development Series)
- UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
- The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream
- Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
- Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
- The Capable Company: Building the capabilities that make strategy work
- The Heretic's Guide to Best Practices
- Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation
- Leading Successful Change
- Appreciative Leadership
- Agile Experience Design
- Games Primates Play
- 1812: The Navy's War
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
- Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
- Resonant Leadership
- The Truth About Creating Effective Feedback Loops with Your Employees
- Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint
- Driving Down Cost: How to Manage and Cut Costs - Intelligently
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
- Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas
- The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth
The Reader Experience
I rarely find the mood to just stick with a single topic in a single book. I tend to let an idea sink in or germinate then come out in a blog or within another site's comment.
My reader is the Boox Tablet Note Air3 C. This is a color e-ink reader, note-taker, and all-around weapon of choice.
I moved on from an Amazon Kindle brand when hand-writing and notebooks caught up with color e-ink. Boox devices offer ways to highlight, add notes, and annotate, as well as hand-writing recognition.
Amazon's Kindle app is free for a host of platforms. I read multiple books at once because I jump from insight to insight as well as need to need. I highlight and take a lot of notes and might read a chapter two or three times.
The ability to store, view, retrieve, and print highlights with your Amazon profile and to view highlights with others, helps writing and presentation creation. I am a Kindle format enthusiast to manage my eBooks from Amazon, NetGalley, or free from local libraries.
NetGalley helps readers discover and recommend new books to new audiences. Since 2013, I am a grateful member of NetGalley.
The Kindle app let's you read across tablets, computers, or smart phone devices and keeps your library and notes synced. Keeps you sane.