My Virtual Bookshelf

I am presently reading the following books:

• Man’s Search for Meaning
• The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Below are some of the most influential books I have recently read.

Category: Agile Software Development

• Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (December 2008)
• Agile Project Management with Scrum (November 2008)
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (January 2009) - Read my book review
• Managing Agile Projects (December 2008)
• User Stories Applied: For Agile Sofwhtware Development (December 2008)

Category: Leadership, Team Management, and Coaching

• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
• A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (January 2009) – Read my book review
• A Sense of Urgency (April 2009) – Read my book review
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
• Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work (April 2010)
• Coaching for Performance (January 2010)
• Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance (December 2010)
• Emotional Intelligence
• Execution Premium
• First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules For Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
• Leader as Coach
• Leading Change
• le manager agile: vers nouveau management affronter turbulence (February 2010)
• Managing (November 2010)
• Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace (August 2009)
• Outliers: The Story of Success (December 2008) – Read my book review
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Positioning: The Battle for your Mind (June 2009)
• Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
• Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (May 2009)
• The Right Use of Power (August 2009)
• The Servant Leadership Training Course: Achieving Success Through Character, Bravery, and Influence (December 2009)
• The Toyota Way
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (October 2008)
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (October 2009)
• Winning (July 2009)

Category: Psychology, Philosophy, Negotiation, Meditation, and Communication

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - also available in audiobook format(May 2010)
• Excuses Begone! (October 2009)
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (September 2009)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• Stumbling on Happiness
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (November 2008) – Read my book review
• The Accidental Buddhist (August 2009)
• The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters (December 2009)
• The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (October 2009)
• The Art of Meditation (October 2009)
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
• The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence (January 2010)
• Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (October 2010)
• Wherever You Go, There You Are

Category: Strategy, Organizational Development, and Communities

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Community: The Structure of Belonging
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (re-read November 2009)
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (January 2010)
• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
• Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (July 2009)
• The Art Of War
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (October 2009)
• The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers (February 2010)
• The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world (December 2009)
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (August 2009)
• The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life (August 2010)
• The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter (November 2009)
• Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (November 2009)

Category: Globalization, Economics and Anthropology

• A Brief History of Time
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently (November 2010)
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (August 2010)

Category: Consulting, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur (December 2010)
• Flawless Consulting Set , Flawless Consulting
• Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
• The Google Story

Category: Internet Marketing, Social Networks, and Web 2.0

• Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Message (December 2008) - Read my book review
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (June 2009)
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (November 2008) - Read my book review
• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (February 2009)
• Unleashing the Ideavirus (August 2010)
• Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions (October 2008)
• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means (September 2008)
• Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? (September 2008)
• Reality Check (May 2009)
• Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
• What Would Google Do? (April 2009) - Read my book review
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Wikipatterns