Authors I admire; books that shaped me.
Leadership
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Kim Scott)
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Simon Sinek)
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Liz Wiseman)
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Peter F. Drucker)
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (John Doerr)
- A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility (Mark Schwartz)
Teams, Culture, and People
- Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio)
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility (Patty McCord)
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace)
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work (Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson)
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (Jim Collins)
Decision Making
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Ben Horowitz)
Health and Wellness
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B. Peterson)
- Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (Thich Nhat Hanh)