Books

Currently reading

• Playing to Win – Roger L. Martin
• Strategic Design

Finished reading

Here you find a list of my finished books. Some are linked with some of my favorite quotes and ideas within the books, others are highlighted because I have just enjoyed reading them.

Disclaimer: Currently, there is no particular order. Also, I haven’t gotten around adding all books. Refer to my Goodreads profile for a longer list.

• [[ Run Studio Run ]]
• Hold Me Tight
• Design Sprint
• [[ The Servant as Leader ]]
• Hacking Growth
• Lean Analytics
• Traction – Gabriel Weinberg
• The Elements of Content Strategy – Erin Kissane
• Propaganda – Edward L. Bernays
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products – Nir Eyal
• Getting Things Done – David Allen
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur – Sahil Lavingia
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport

On my shelf

• Das Buch, von dem du dir wünschst, deine Eltern hätten es gelesen – Philippa Perry
• Just Enough Research
• Design Thinking Playbook
• Testing Business Ideas
• Inspired - Marty Cagan
• Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
• The Workshopper
• The Invincible Company – Alex Osterwalder
• Shape Up – Ryan Singer
• Gamestorming Playbook
• Innovation Games – Luke Hohmann
• Deep Work – Cal Newport

Book Store

Through recommendations of people that influence my thinking and working, I have created my own little book store. It includes both fiction and non-fiction books.

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

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• The Art of Strategy – Erik Schön
• Mike Porter – Competetitive Strategy
• Peter Sims – Little Bets
• Working Backwards (Amazon Buch)

Business

• The Practice of Management – Peter Drucker
• Die fünf entscheidenden Fragen des Managements – Peter Drucker

Research

• The Inmates Are Running The Asylum – Alan Cooper
• It’s Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects – Tomer Sharon
• The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick
• Designing for the Digital Age – Kim Goodwin

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

Design

• The Design of Business – Roger L. Martin
• Beyond Sticky Notes – Kelly Ann McKercher
• Mapping Experiences – Jim Kalbach
• Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity – Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum
• Things We Could Design For More Than Human-Cantered Worlds – Ron Wakkary
• From Vision to Version – Daniel Thulfaut
• Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking
• Branded Interactions
• Prototyping for Designers – Kathryn McElroy
• Inclusive Design Communities – Sameera Kapila

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
• The Serendipity Mindset – Dr. Christian Busch
• Talk To Me – Dean Nelson
• Die Bibel
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
• Continuous Discovery Habits – Teresa Torres
• Network Thinking – Ulrich Weinberg
• Geben und Nehmen – Adam Grant
• Rosahellblaue Falle – Almut Schnerring
• What They Forgot to Teach You at School – The School of Life
• Think Again – Adam Grant
• How to Live – Derek Sivers
• How To Take Smart Notes
• Der Künstler und seine Zeit – Albert Camus
• How to Change – Katy Milkman
• Factfulness – Hans Rosling
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Pirates In The Navy – Tendayi Viki
• The Practice: Ship creative work – Seth Godin

[[ Book List Fiction ]]

Sources

Top 100 Fantasy books according to Reddit