A BIT OF MENTAL STIMULATION
At the end of 2017 I stopped competitive sport and sought a new outlet. Having pushed my body to its limits I am now stretching my mind and am very grateful to a few good people who have suggested some wonderful books.
This blog is part an acknowledgement and thank you to the people who have really made an impact on me either directly or for the recommendations they have made.
I am therefore sharing a list of what I've read and why, just in case people have similar interests and would like to read the same books. It is also a great opportunity to canvas recommendations.
It is true that my physical fitness is not what is was when I was 30 or even 40, but there is no reason that my mind shouldn't go from strength to strength and I am grateful for any ideas that may improve me or my business in 2019.
READING LIST
This is a small subset, I think I may have read 50 books. I have attempted to put them in the order I would recommend with the best at the top of each list. I greatly value people's recommendations in the comments.
IMPROVING PROCESS AND SYSYEMS THINKING
The Phoenix Project, A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition, By: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Goal, A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition, By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
Critical Chain,Project Management and the Theory of Constraints By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The DevOps Handbook, How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development
Thinking in Systems A Primer By: Donella H. Meadows
UNDERSTANDING POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The Cold War, A World History, By: Odd Arne Westad
The Great Economists, How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today,By: Linda Yueh
Misbehaving, The Making of Behavioral Economics, By: Richard Thaler
Red Notice, By: Bill Browder
A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev, By: Mark Steinberg, The Great Courses
Willful Blindness, Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, By: Margaret Heffernan
The Secret Barrister By: The Secret Barrister
Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit
MANAGING A BUSINESS
The 12 Week Year, Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months, By: Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life By: Mark Manson
Key Person of Influence, The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry
Summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths By: Instaread
UNSURE WHICH CATAGORY
Bad Blood By: John Carreyrou
Conspiracy, Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, By: Ryan Holiday
Hitch-22, A Memoir, By: Christopher Hitchens
Sapiens and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
THANKS
I would like to thank Tom Hacquoil for a number of books: Zappos, The New New, When Breath Becomes Air, and a bundle of books on cryptocurrency
I would like to thank Jane Frankland for her book INsecurity
I am also mighty impressed by my Commonwealth Games Team Manager, Gary Jones who has published Evidence Based School Leadership and Management. Although written for schools the idea of doing anything based on data is a good idea!
I am also grateful to Gailina Lieu for the work of the Jersey Policy Forum and some great books: The Road to Somehere and Utopia for Realists. This opened a really interesting trail which included Andrew Keene's book How to Fix the Future and another breath taking look into the future with Life 3.0.
FOR 2019
I greatly value people's recommendations in the comments and am curious if there is a book club in Jersey for either Business Topics or Social Change.
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