*Asterisk indicates previously read (to re-read) read or partially read.
I’m not promising to finish in 2020, but I’d like to. Needs more fiction.
Getting things done (4)
- 12 Week Year – Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington* (read 2020/01/09)
- Atomic Habits – James Clear*
- Make Time – Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (added 2020/01/05)
- Start Finishing – Charlie Gilkey (added 2020/01/05)
People stuff and organisational culture (5)
- Switch – Chip and Dan Heath
- The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
- You Are What You Do – Ben Horowitz
- The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
- Drive – Dan Pink (remembered and added 2020/01/05)
Design and making things (4)
- The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman*
- Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines – Apple Computer*
- Letting Go of the Words – Ginny Reddish*
- Something by Steve Krug*
Marketing and communication (4)
- This is Marketing – Seth Godin*
- Story Driven – Bernadette Jiwa*
- The Fortune Cookie Principle – Bernadette Jiwa*
- The Compelling Communicator – Tim Pollard*
Management and strategy (6)
- The Excellence Dividend – Tom Peters*
- The Pursuit of Wow! – Tom Peters
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It – Michael E. Gerber*
- Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs – David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano*
- Crossing the Chasm – Geoff Moore
- The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
Ways of seeing the world and decision making (6)
- Factfulness – Hans Rosling
- Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
- Map and Territory – Eliezer Yudowsky*
- Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (added 2020/04/01)
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (added 2020/01/12)
More general hinterland reading (5)
- A Brief History of Debt – David Graeber
- Generous Justice – Tim Keller
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- The Gift – Lewis Hyde
- Indonesia Etc. – Elizabeth Pisani (added 2020/04/01)
- The Canon – Natalie Angier (added 2020/01/05)
- Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace and Strategy – Colin S. Gray (added 2019/01/09)
- The Life You Can Save – Peter Singer (added 2020/02/16)
Fiction, history and other (6)
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo*
- Interesting Times – Terry Pratchett
- Forgotten Wars – Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
- Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time – Stephen A. Mitchell (or a substitute)
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution – C.L.R. James
- Bandwidth – Eliot Peper