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Summer Reading Recommendations 2018

Jul 17, 2018

Looking for some great books to read this summer? We just finished GilbFest 2018 where  well-read experts have shared their book reading recommendations

Agata Nowak
1. Timeparadox - Phillip Zimbardo and John Boyd
2. Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber
3. Potencjał Ludzki w Organizacji - Marek Adamiec (unfortunately only in Polish)

Łukasz Szóstek
1. How to measure anything - Douglas W. Hubbard
2. A history of the world - Andrew Marr
3. Anti Fragile - Nassim Taleb

Donald Reinertsen
1. Thinking fast Fast and Slow - Kaneman Daniel
2. Team of Teams - Mc Chrystal
3. Warfighting MCPD 1

Tom & Mary Poppendieck
1. This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox
2. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition

Petter Abrahamsen
1. The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
2. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
3. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
4. The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
5. Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
6. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Atsushi Nagata
1. Quality Software Management, Vol. 3: Congruent Action - Gerald M. Weinberg
2. Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash - Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Dmytro Mindra
1. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
2. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? - Michael Sandel
3. Sensemaking - Christian Madsbjerg
4. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
5. Three body problem (novel)

Paul Field
1. The Five Minute Coach - Lynne Cooper and Marietta Castellino
2. Gamestorming - Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
3. Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe

Nik Silver
1. How to measure anything, Douglas Hubbard
2. The Goal, Eli Goldratt.
3. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
4. Beyond Budgeting, by Hope and Fraser
5. Out of the crisis, W. Edwards Deming
5. The Toyota Way, Womack and Jones
6. Be bulletproof: How to achieve success in tough times at work, Brooke and Brooke
7. Intelligent internal control and risk management, Matthew Leitch
8. Freedom from command and control, John Seddon
9. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi

Pawel Nowak
1. Design for the real world, Victor Papanek: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Real-World-Ecology-Social/dp/0500273588
2. Are your lights on, Gerald Weinberg: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-Your-Lights-Figure-Problem/dp/0932633161
3. Emotional Life of Your Brain, Davidson: https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Life-Your-Brain-Live/dp/0452298881

David Stoughton
1. Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why some organisations consistently outperform others Jules Goddard and Tony Eccles

Anna Karłowska
1. Facilitating with Heart: Awakening Personal Transformation and Social Change, Martha Lasley
2. Facilitation - An Art, Science, Skill or All Three? Build your expertise in Facilitation, Tony Mann
3. Culture Map by Erin Meyer, Erin Meyer

That is our list, happy reading.

What great books have you read that you can recommend? Please share in the comments below.

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