Year without Pants
Scott Berkun—20I3. CHAPTER I THE HOTEL ELECTRA CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST DAY CHAPTER 3 TICKETS FOR Caturday CHAPTER 4 CULTURE ALWAYS WINS CHAPTER 5 YOUR MEETINGS WILL BE TYPED CHAPTER 6 THE BAZAAR AT THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER 7 THE BIG TALK CHAPTER 8: THE FUTURE OF WORK, PART 1 CHAPTER 9 working the team. CHAPTER […]
Culture Code
Daniel Coyle Skill 1: Build Safety Chapter 1: The Good Apples Except for one group. “It’s the outlier group,” Felps says. “They first came to my attention when Nick mentioned that there was one group that felt really different to him. This group performed well no matter what he did. Nick said it was mostly […]
Stealing Fire
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal 1825 Introduction Some revolutions begin with a gunshot, others with a party. This one kicked off on a Friday night in downtown Athens, in 415 BCE. Alcibiades, a prominent Greek […]
Super Freakonomics
Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner—2009. INTRODUCTION: PUTTING THE FREAK IN ECONOMICS CHAPTER 1: HOW IS A STREET PROSTITUTE LIKE A DEPARTMENT-STORE SANTA? CHAPTER 2: WHY SHOULD SUICIDE BOMBERS BUY LIFE INSURANCE? CHAPTER 3: UNBELIEVABLE STORIES ABOUT APATHY AND ALTRUISM CHAPTER 4: THE FIX IS IN—AND IT’S CHEAP AND SIMPLE CHAPTER 5: WHAT DO AL GORE AND […]
Art of Innovation
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America’s Leading Design FirmTom Kelley—2001. Chapter 1: innovation at the top. Chapter 2: winging it in startup mode. Chapter 3: innovation begins with an eye. Chapter 4: the perfect brainstorm. Chapter 5: a cool company needs hot groups Chapter 6: prototyping is the shorthand of innovation. […]
Art of Gathering
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It MattersPriya Parker Introduction: The 2015 State of Enterprise Work survey found that “wasteful meetings” were employees’ top obstacle to getting work done. Chapter 1: Decide Why You’re Really Gathering If I were to ask what was the purpose behind each of those gatherings, I […]
Time Talent Energy
Time Talent Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag & Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power Michael Mankins, Eric Garton Prologue: The Truly Scarce Resources Strategy is the art and science of resource allocation. Financial capital is abundant and cheap. Our colleagues in the Bain Macro Trends Group estimate that total global capital has more than tripled […]
Tool of Titans
– Tim Ferris Read this first – how to use this book In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more “impossible” question, the more profound answers. Take, for instance, question that serial billionaire Peter Theil likes to ask himself and others: “If you have a 10-year […]
Read this before Our Next Meeting
Al Pittampalli—2011. Traditional Meetings Kill Our Sense of Urgency The Seven Principles of Modem Meetings The Modem Meeting convenes to support a decision that has already been made.
Powerful
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility – Patty McCord A new way of working Yes, engaged employees probably deliver higher-quality performance, but too often engagement is treated as the endgame, rather than serving customers and getting results. And the standard beliefs about how and why people are engaged in their work miss the […]