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