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* Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah | * Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah | ||
* What would Google do? - Jeff Jarvis | * What would Google do? - Jeff Jarvis | ||
| + | * The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss | ||
* [[HereComesEverybody.org|Here Comes Everybody]] - [[Shirky.com|Clay Shirky]] | * [[HereComesEverybody.org|Here Comes Everybody]] - [[Shirky.com|Clay Shirky]] | ||
* SuperCrunchers - Ian Ayers | * SuperCrunchers - Ian Ayers | ||
| + | * Designing for the social web - Joshua Porter | ||
| + | * [http://www.jjg.net/elements/ Elements of User Experience] - Jesse James Garrett | ||
* [[Smartmobs.com|Smartmobs]] [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html book] by [[Rheingold.com|Howard Reingold]] | * [[Smartmobs.com|Smartmobs]] [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html book] by [[Rheingold.com|Howard Reingold]] | ||
* Groundswell, Charlene Li | * Groundswell, Charlene Li | ||
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* The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki | * The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki | ||
* Emergence - [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Stephen Johnson]] | * Emergence - [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Stephen Johnson]] | ||
| + | * Ruling the Root - Milton Mueller | ||
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* Who - Geoff Smart and Randy Street | * Who - Geoff Smart and Randy Street | ||
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* Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - [[Gazelles.com|Verne Harnish]] (The methods we use at AboutUs) | * Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - [[Gazelles.com|Verne Harnish]] (The methods we use at AboutUs) | ||
* Good to Great - [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]] (a must read) | * Good to Great - [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]] (a must read) | ||
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* Built to Last - [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]] | * Built to Last - [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]] | ||
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* [[FreakonomicsBook.com|Freakonomics]], Steven D. Levitt and [[StephenJDubner.com|Stephen J. Dubner]] | * [[FreakonomicsBook.com|Freakonomics]], Steven D. Levitt and [[StephenJDubner.com|Stephen J. Dubner]] | ||
* The World is Flat - [[ThomasLFriedman.com|Thomas Friedman]] | * The World is Flat - [[ThomasLFriedman.com|Thomas Friedman]] | ||
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* The Power of Now - Eckhard Towle | * The Power of Now - Eckhard Towle | ||
Revision as of 09:42, 28 March 2010
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Web / Tech
- Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuk
- Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah
- What would Google do? - Jeff Jarvis
- The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
- Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
- SuperCrunchers - Ian Ayers
- Designing for the social web - Joshua Porter
- Elements of User Experience - Jesse James Garrett
- Smartmobs book by Howard Reingold
- Groundswell, Charlene Li
- The Search - John Battelle
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Seth Godin
- Permission Marketing
- IdeaVirus
- Purple Cow
- Tribes
- The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
- Emergence - Stephen Johnson
- Ruling the Root - Milton Mueller
How the Mind Works
- Switch - Dan and Chip Heath
- Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins (amazing book)
- Mind Wide Open - Steve Johnson
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Operational Excellence
- Who - Geoff Smart and Randy Street
- Who's got your back - Keith Ferrazzi
- Getting Things Done - David Allen
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - Verne Harnish (The methods we use at AboutUs)
- Good to Great - Jim Collins (a must read)
- Inside Advantage - Robert Bloom
- Leadership and Self Deception - The Arbinger Institute
- Pat Lencioni (short fable style books)
- 5 Temptations of a CEO
- Death by Meeting
- 5 Dysfunctions of a team (Best of the group)
- Built to Last - Jim Collins
Economics
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
Investigative Reporting
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson (Northern Pakistan)
- Jon Krakauer books:
- Into Thin Air (Mt. Everest)
- Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormon Fundamentalism)
- Into the Wild (Alaska)
- The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
- Liars Poker - Michael Lewis
Biographical
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
- The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder
- The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guavara
- Lessons: An Autobiography - An Wang (Wang Laboratories)
- The Ultimate Entrepreneur - Ken Olsen (DEC)
- The Winner Within - Pat Riley (Lakers, Knicks)
About Specific Businesses
- Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove (Intel)
- Maverick - Ricardo Semler (Semco)
- Odyssey - John Scully (Apple)
- Faster Company - Patrick Kelly (Physician Sales & Service)
- Business at the Speed of Thought - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
- The Road Ahead - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Happiness
- Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh (Zappos guy)
- The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt (super book)
- Unleashing the Soul of Money - Lynne Twist
Self Help
- The Power of Now - Eckhard Towle
Fiction
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
- In other rooms other wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin (Great perspective on Pakistan)
- Down and out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
- Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
- Kite Runner
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Fountainhead
- Dan Brown Books (ok I'll admit it)
- The Lost Symbol
- DaVinci Code (Best in my opinion)
- Angels and Demons
- Digital Fortress
- Deception Point
- Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Recommended to me
- Obed's picks:
- The god of small things, Arundhuti Roy
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- The Dancing Girls of Lahore, Louise Brown
- The Sandman Comics, Neil Gaiman
- Asad's picks:
- Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe
