Currently Reading
- The Responsible Company by Yvon Chouinard
- Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin
Books Read
Favorites are marked with an (*) asterisks
- *Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
- *Grit by Angela Duckworth
- *Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
- *Stop Stealing Dreams by Seth Godin
- *Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
- *The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
- *Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
- *The Flinch by Julien Smith
- *Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- *Lexicon by Max Barry
- *The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick
- *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- *SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
- *Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant
- *Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
- *Do Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement: An Encounter Between Psychology, Evolution and Business by Jacob Burak
- *Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- *Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- *Syrup by Max Barry
- *Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by James C. Collins
- *The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- *The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- *The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell
- North by Scott Jurek
- The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
- The E-Myth Contractor by Michael Gerber
- The Knowledge by Steven Pressfield
- The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack
- Wooden by John Wooden
- Snow Sense by Jill Fredston
- Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service by PRA
- American Icon by Bryce G. Hoffman
- Eat & Run by Scott Jurek
- Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- Taken Captive: The Secret To Capturing Your Piece Of America’s Multi Billion Dollar Insurance Industry by R. Wesley Sierk III
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Barking Up a Dead Horse: Avoiding the Wasted Time and Effort in Business-To-Business Sales by Tom Batchelder
- V is for Vulnerable: An Alphabet for People Who Want to Make a Difference by Seth Godin
- The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
- Outsource It! by Nick Krym
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
- Write Hard, Die Free: Dispatches from the Battlefields & Barrooms of the Great Alaska Newspaper War by Howard Weaver
- Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
- The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
- Out of Order: An incisive and boldly original critique of the news media’s domination of America’s political process by Thomas E. Patterson
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
- Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People who are Poking the Box and Making a Difference by Seth Godin
- Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke–the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific by Cali Ressler
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guides) by Project Management Institute
- Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
- Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism by Deepak Chopra
- Requisite Organization: A Total System for Effective Managerial Organization and Managerial Leadership for the 21st Century by Elliott Jaques
- 642 Things to Draw: Journal by Chronicle Books
- Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli
- Company by Max Barry
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by James C. Collins
- How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by James C. Collins
- Alice in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1) by Lewis Carroll
- The Big Red Fez: How to Make Any Web Site Better by Seth Godin
- We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and the End of Compliance by Seth Godin
- The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable by The Group of 33
- Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin
- Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers
- Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? by Seth Godin
- All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
- Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin
- Poke the Box by Seth Godin
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins
- Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
- Rework by Jason Fried
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
- What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) by Steven D. Levitt
- Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel by Yvon Chouinard
- The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Completely Revised and Updated with Over 400 New Color Photos and Illustrations by Tom Rosenbauer
- Lifehacker: The Guide to Working, Smarter, Faster, and Better by Adam Pash
- Evernote: The unofficial guide to capturing everything and getting things done. 2nd Edition by Daniel Gold
- CAPM Exam Prep: Rita Mulcahy’s Course In A Book For Passing The Capm Exam by Rita Mulcahy
- Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Started Reading… meh.
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
- Walden by by Henry David Thoreau
- Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
Books to Read
- Gettin More by Stuart Diamond
- The Sales Playbook by Jack Daly
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Web Analytics 2.0 by Avinash Kaushik
- The Four Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank
- Body of Work by Pamela Slim
- True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
- The Art of Possibility by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Emerson
- The Coaching Habit by Micael Stanier
- Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell
- Creating Customer Evangelists by Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell
- Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations by Tom Peters
- The Mesh by Lisa Gansky
- Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
- A Beautiful Constraint by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
- Hunch by Bernadette Jiwa
- Whiplash by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
- Resonate by Nancy Durate
- First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Double Double by Cameron Herold
- Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet
- Get a Grip by Gino Wickman
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World by Al Pittampalli
- Influencing Without Authority by Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford
- Nuts! by Kevin Freiberg
- Missing Microbes by Martin Blazer
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change by Seth Godin
- Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
- The E-Myth Revisted/ The E-Myth Mastery by Michael E. Gerber
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The Tesseract by Alex Garland
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Beach by Alex Garland
- Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
- The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World’s Best Companies by Robert B. Miller
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
- The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
- New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond by Robert Shapar
- Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of
- Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
- Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your
- Competition by Harvey MacKay
- Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley
- The Third Teacher by OWP/P Architects
- Impro by Keith Johnstone
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander
- Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track by Russell L. Ackoff
- Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges by Loren Pope
- DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz
- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
- The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald
- The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick
- The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry
- Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds by Scott Berkun
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
- The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life by John Hunt
- The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself by John Jantsch
- Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel M. Tichy
- Funky Business Forever: How To Enjoy Capitalism by Kjell Nordstrom
- Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm by Eric G. Flamholtz
- Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources by Paul Hersey
- In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- The Intelligent Investor (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham
- Human Capability: A Study of Individual Potential and Its Application by Elliott Jaques
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
- Gully Town by G.P. Schultz
- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
- Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind by David Livingstone Smith
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
- The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell
- The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with “The Resumption of History in the New Century” by Daniel Bell
- Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
- The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature by Gad Saad
- Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko
- Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
- Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer
- End Malaria: Bold Innovation, Limitless Generosity, and the Opportunity to Save a Life by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the
- Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room by David Weinberger
- Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp
- Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior by Edward L. Deci
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
- Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web by Paul Adams
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
- Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination by Hugh MacLeod