Firstly: if you’ve found a great book you think we should read then mail us at enquiries@sabisu.co.

There are a lot of books on the shelves here so we’ve split them into rough sections.

The books that inspired the platform section:

• The Art of Action (Bungay)
• Thinking In Systems (Meadows, Wright)
• The Fifth Discipline (Senge)

The books that continue to help us section:

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz)
• Never Split The Difference (Voss)
• On War (von Clausewitz)
• Simple (Siegel)
• Everything Is Miscellaneous (Weinberger)
• Growing Your Own Heroes (Oliver)
• Super Cooperators (Nowak)
• Information Is Beautiful (McCandless)
• Free (Anderson)
• The Longer Long Tail (Anderson)
• In The Plex (Levy)
• Switch (Heath/Heath)
• The Deadline (DeMarco)
• Business Model Generation (Osterwalder/Pigneur)
• Rework (Fried/Heinemeier Hansson)
• The Master Switch (Wu)
• Gamestorming (Gray/Brown/Macanufo)
• Crossing The Chasm (Moore)
• Inside The Tornado (Moore)
• The Lean Startup (Ries)
• What Would Google Do? (Jarvis)

The personal improvement section:

• Predatory Thinking (Trott)
• Creative Mischief (Trott)
• One Plus One Equals Three (Trott)
• It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be (Arden)
• Whatever You Think Think The Opposite (Arden)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
• The Chimp Paradox (Peters)
• The Effective Executive (Drucker)
• Leading (Ferguson)
• The Art of Captaincy (Brearley)
• Our Iceberg Is Melting (Kotter/Rathgeber)
• The Elements of Story (Flaherty)

The section for insightful analysis and a little speculation:

• What Technology Wants (Kelly)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto (Levine/Lock/Sears/Weinberger)
• The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
• Superforecasters (Tetlock/Gardner)
• Possibly Good To Great (Collins) & Built To Last (Collins); flawed but interesting.

A special section for tough background reading:

• CMMI (Chrissis/Conrad/Shrum)
• Managing Successful Projects with Prince2 (OGC)
• Tailoring Prince2 (OGC)
• Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (OGC)
• The Intelligent Investor (Graham)
• Security Analysis (Graham/Dodd)

A special section for how to sell:

• (Intentionally left blank; there are a lot on the bookshelf but none of them hit the spot.)

Other books & publications we’ve picked up and like:

• Rouleur
• Cycling
• Racing Tactics for Cyclists (Prehn)
• Listener (Sissay)
• Rebel Without Applause (Sissay)
• Collected Poems 1909-1962 (Eliot)
• Anything by Alain de Botton