These are books I usually recommend

Highly Recommended: Life/Wisdom/Thinking

  • The Road Less Traveled

  • Leading with Character

  • The Power of Full engagement

  • 30 Lessons for living

  • Stumbling on Happiness

  • The Incerto: Antifragile, Fooled by randomness, The Black swan, the bed of Procrustes

  • The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne (I open it and read a random part)

  • The Fifth Discipline

  • The Time Paradox



Biographies/Founding Stories

  • Against the odds: James Dyson

  • Keeping at it

  • Shoe Dog

  • A passion to win

  • The art of being unreasonable

  • Idea Makers

  • Founders at Work

  • Charlie Munger: the complete investor

  • A dozen lessons for Entrepreneurs

Science & Technology

  • Collapse

  • Parasite Rex

  • The Society of Mind

  • Countdown to Zero Day

  • Superintelligence (Yes although I don’t buy in to the conclusion)

  • A new kind of science

  • The road to reality: Penrose

  • Ghost Map

Business

  • High Output Management

  • The innovators dilemma

  • Crossing the Chasm

  • The 7 Powers

  • Competitive Strategy

  • Predictable Revenue

  • The Sales Acceleration Formula

  • Subscribed

  • Remote

  • Re/work

  • It doesn’t have to be crazy at work

  • the essential Drucker

  • The Toyota way

  • Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart

  • The hard thing about hard things

  • What you do is who you are

  • The score takes care of itself

  • Subscribed

  • The checklist manifesto

  • Trillion Dollar Coach