It is not always obvious what you will learn from a book and often difficult to say which is the best since learning is often a jigsaw of different insights and connected thoughts from different places.
So when the Distributors Club asked me to comment on books I
would recommend the answer has to be “it depends” on the reader, their interest,
and their pursuit of depth or breadth.
Below I have highlighted some of the physical books I have
sat down and read. And some of the audiobooks I have listened to as I walk, often
5 or more hours per week.
My personal view is read widely and read about ideas that you
can use to change yourself, your community and the world for the better. I have
debated whether to categorise books into Business Books or books about
Economics or Psychology but the more I read the more I appreciate that these
are inter-related.
I have previously written a book list with categories (link
below) but this is now incomplete and out-of-date. I also think it is more fun
to learn something completely new than simply reinforce existing knowledge, with
the risk of bias. Some of the most challenging and enlightening books I have
read are those where I have a different view, yet nonetheless want to
understand a different perspective.
So below is a list of physical books and audiobooks 2018-2019.
I always welcome feedback, and recommendations. If you have any observations or
suggestions please comment, or get in touch.
Thanks, Tim
TimHJRogers is a former Commonwealth Games Triathlete, World
Championships Rower and GB Coastal Rowing Champion. He is also a Management
Consultant, Performance Coach and Mentor. He is a contributor to the Jersey
Policy Forum and an Independent Member of the Public Accounts Committee as well
as a former curator for TEDx events and Chair of the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Committee. As well as supporting personal and organisational change Tim is a
public speaker on a range of performance and social change topics.
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THESE ARE SOME OF THE PHYSICAL BOOKS THAT I HAVE CONSUMED
RECENTLY
THESE ARE SOME OF THE AUDIO BOOKS THAT I HAVE LISTENED TO
1. Cognitive
Psychology for Dummies By Michael Pake,
2. I
Love You But I'm Not In Love With You: Seven Steps to Saving Your Relationship
By Andrew G. Marshall
3. Love
Factually: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love By Laura Mucha
4. My
Early Life By Winston Churchill
5. Messy
By Tim Harford
6. Peak
Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science
of Success By Brad Stulberg,Steve Magness
7. The
Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in
the Age of Data By Gene Kim
8. Humble
Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster By Edgar H. Schein
9. The
Examined Life By Stephen Grosz
10. The
Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity By Douglas Murray
11. No
More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex and
Life (Updated) By Dr Robert Glover
12. The
Wisdom of Psychopaths By Kevin Dutton
13. How
the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy By Julian Baggini
14. The
Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships By Neil Strauss
15. Narconomics:
How to Run a Drug Cartel By Tom Wainwright
16. Understanding
Power: The Indispensable Chomsky By Noam Chomsky,
17. Out
of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot
18. War
and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital
Age By Mark Schwartz
19. A
Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility By Mark Schwartz
20. WTF?:
What have we done? Why did it happen? How do we take back control? By Robert
Peston
21. The
Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups By Daniel Coyle
22. SAS
Italian Job By Damien Lewis
23. Stalin:
New Biography of a Dictator By Oleg V. Khlevniuk,
24. Product
Mastery: From Good to Great Product Ownership By Geoff Watts
25. Scrum
Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership By Geoff Watts
26. Lean
Mastery Collection: 8 Manuscripts: Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Lean
Enterprise, Lean Analytics, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Scrum, Kaizen By
27. Scrum:
The art of doing twice the work in half the time By Jeff Sutherland
28. Eureka:
Finding the Line Between Desire and Contentment, Then Riding It By Graham Field
29. The
Climb By Anatoli Boukreev,G. Weston DeWalt
30. The
Push By Tommy Caldwell
31. The
Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life By Mark
Synnott
32. Lone
Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World By Elspeth Beard
33. Business
Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street By John Brooks
34. In
Search of Greener Grass: Riding from Reality towards Dreams and Finding
Fulfillment By Graham Field
35. The
Good Psychopath's Guide to Success By Andy McNab,Kevin Dutton
36. Winners:
And How They Succeed By Alastair Campbell
37. A
Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive By David Pelzer
38. Yes!
50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion By Dr. Noah Goldstein,Steve Martin,
39. Flipnosis
By Kevin Dutton
40. Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain By
41. The
10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure By Grant Cardone
42. Skin
in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
43. Principles:
Life and Work By Ray Dalio
44. Made
to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die By Chip Heath,Dan Heath
45. Key
Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly
Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry By Daniel Priestley
46. The
DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security
in Technology Organizations By Gene Kim,
47. Inside
Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit By Philip
Webster
48. The
Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through
Leadership Development By Jeffrey Liker,
49. Blue
Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition
Irrelevant By W. Chan Kim,Renee Mauborgne
50. Thinking
in Systems: A Primer By Donella H. Meadows
51. The
Secret Barrister By The Secret Barrister
52. The
Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good
Life By Mark Manson
53. Critical
Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
54. The
12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months By Brian P.
Moran,Michael Lennington
55. Misbehaving:
The Making of Behavioral Economics By Richard Thaler
56. Conspiracy:
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue By Ryan Holiday
57. The
Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition By Eliyahu M.
Goldratt,
58. The
Cold War: A World History By Odd Arne Westad
59. The
Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th
Anniversary Edition By Gene Kim,
60. Willful
Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril By Margaret Heffernan
61. The
Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today By Linda Yueh
62. Bad
Blood By John Carreyrou
63. Hitch-22:
A Memoir By Christopher Hitchens
64. A
History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev By
65. Summary
of 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson: An Antidote to Chaos By FlashBooks
Book Summaries
66. Summary
of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths By Instaread
67. Red
Notice By Bill Browder
68. How
the Mind Works By Steven Pinker
69. Bad
Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients By Ben Goldacre
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