Book Backlog

I often find myself reading one to three books simultaneously. This leads to the awkward situation of looking for my next thing to read while still not being through with all the pages on my nightstand (or desk).

On my shelf

• Strategy Safari – Henry Mintzberg
• Competitive Advantage – Michael Porter
• Just Enough Research
• Inspired - Marty Cagan
• Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
• The Invincible Company – Alex Osterwalder
• Shape Up – Ryan Singer
• The Design of Business – Roger L. Martin
• 66 Gebote systemischen Denkens und Handelns in Management und Beratung – Torsten Groth
• The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
• The Innovator’s Solution – Clayton Christensen, Micheal Raynor

Book Store

Through recommendations of people that influence my thinking and working, I have created my own little book store.

To be frank, I will probably not read all of them, but it gives me inspiration, whenever I am on the lookout to restock my book shelf.

Strategy

• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• The Art of Strategy – Erik Schön
• Peter Sims – Little Bets
• Working Backwards (Amazon Buch)
• Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary – Dan Hill
• The 4 Levels of Execution
• Einführung in die systemische Strategieentwicklung – Reinhart Nagel, Rudolf Wimmer
• The Crux – Richard Rumelt
• Obliquity – John Kay

Leadership & Management

• The Practice of Management – Peter Drucker
• Die fünf entscheidenden Fragen des Managements – Peter Drucker
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni

Research

• The Inmates Are Running The Asylum – Alan Cooper
• It’s Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects – Tomer Sharon
• Designing for the Digital Age – Kim Goodwin
• Megatrend Research – Harry Gatterer, Stefan Tewes
• The Field Study Handbook – Jan Chipchase
• Mixed Methods – Sam Ladner
• Practical Ethnography – Sam Ladner
• Qualitative Methods in Business Research – Paivi Eriksson, Anne Kovalainen

Innovation

• Creativity Inc. – Ed Catmull
• The Ten Types of Innovation
• How to Kill Your Company – Ken Kirsh
• The Innovators Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
• The Innovators Solution – Clayton Christensen
• No Rules Rules – Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
• Joy Inc.
• Chief Joy Officer
• Hört auf, Innovationstheater zu spielen!
• Innovation
• The Business Model Navigator
• Banish Your Inner Critic – Denise Jacobs
• The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
• Zukünfte gestalten – Eileen Mandir, Benedikt Groß
• Winning the Brain Game – Matthew E. May
• A Technique for Producing Ideas – James Young
• Skunk Works – Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
• How Big Things Get Done – Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

Design

• Beyond Sticky Notes – Kelly Ann McKercher
• Mapping Experiences – Jim Kalbach
• Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity – Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum
• Prototyping for Designers – Kathryn McElroy
• Idealized Design – Russel Ackoff

Coaching & Consulting

• The McKinsey Way – Ethan M. Rasiel
• Good To Great – Jim Collins
• Built to Last – Jim Collins
• The Pyramid Principle – Barbara Minto
• Consulting Success – Michael Zipursky
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
• Organisationen: Eine sehr kurze Einführung – Stefan Kühl

Other non-fiction

• Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• „What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else“ – Geoff Colvin
• So you want to talk about race
• Minimalist Parenting - Christin Koh
• The Practicing Stoic – Ward Farnsworth
• Talk To Me – Dean Nelson
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
• Effortless – Greg McKeown
• Continuous Discovery Habits – Teresa Torres
• Network Thinking – Ulrich Weinberg
• Geben und Nehmen – Adam Grant
• Rosahellblaue Falle – Almut Schnerring
• Think Again – Adam Grant
• How to Live – Derek Sivers
• Der Künstler und seine Zeit – Albert Camus
• How to Change – Katy Milkman
• Factfulness – Hans Rosling
• Pirates In The Navy – Tendayi Viki
• The Practice: Ship creative work – Seth Godin
• Citizens – Jon Alexander
• The way to love – Anthoney De Mello
• https://www.index-space.org/resources
• Daily Rituals – Mason Currey
• Der Mensch auf der Suche nach dem Sinn – Viktor Frankl
• How to Take Smart Notes – Söhnke Ahrens
• A System for Writing – Bob Doto
• The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time – Rob Fitzpatrick
• Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment – Jason Schreier