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== Here Comes Everybody ==
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== Web / Tech ==
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* The Viral Loop - Adam L. Penenberg
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* Rework - 37 Signals folks
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* Marketing in the age of Google - Vanessa Fox
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* Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuk
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* Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah
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* What would Google do? - Jeff Jarvis
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* The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
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* [[HereComesEverybody.org|Here Comes Everybody]] - [[Shirky.com|Clay Shirky]]
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* SuperCrunchers - Ian Ayers
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* Designing for the social web - Joshua Porter
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* [http://www.jjg.net/elements/ Elements of User Experience] - Jesse James Garrett
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* [[Smartmobs.com|Smartmobs]] [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html book] by [[Rheingold.com|Howard Reingold]]
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* Groundswell, Charlene Li
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* The Search - [[BattelleMedia.com|John Battelle]]
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* [[Cluetrain.com|The Cluetrain Manifesto]]
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* [[SethGodin.com|Seth Godin]]
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** Permission Marketing
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** IdeaVirus
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** Purple Cow
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** Tribes
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* The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
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* Emergence -  [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Stephen Johnson]]
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* Ruling the Root - Milton Mueller
  
* Author: Clay Shirky
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== How the Mind Works ==
* Fun story in the first chapter
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* Mindsight - Dan Siegel
* Great read on the the power of today's community tools and influencers of the future.  Lots of insights.
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* Linchpin - Seth Godin
* [http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/1594201536 Here Comes Everybody]
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* Drive - Daniel Pink
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* The Three Laws of Performance - Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
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* Switch - Dan and Chip Heath
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* Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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* [[OnIntelligence.org|On Intelligence]], Jeff Hawkins (amazing book)
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* Mind Wide Open - [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Steve Johnson]]
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* Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
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* Emotional Intelligence - Dan Goleman
  
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== Operational Excellence ==
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* What got you here won't get you there - Marshall Goldsmith
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* Who - Geoff Smart and Randy Street
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* Who's got your back - Keith Ferrazzi
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* Getting Things Done - David Allen
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* Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - [[Gazelles.com|Verne Harnish]] (The methods we use at AboutUs)
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* [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]]
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** Built to Last
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** Good to Great -  (a must read)
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** Great, by Choice
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* Inside Advantage - Robert Bloom
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* Leadership and Self Deception - The Arbinger Institute
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* [[TableGroup.com|Pat Lencioni]] (short fable style books)
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** Getting Naked (for service folks)
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** 5 Temptations of a CEO
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** Death by Meeting
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** 5 Dysfunctions of a team (Best of the group)
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* Little Bets - Peter Sims
  
==Emergence==
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== Economics ==
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* [[FreakonomicsBook.com|Freakonomics]], Steven D. Levitt and [[StephenJDubner.com|Stephen J. Dubner]]
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* The World is Flat - [[ThomasLFriedman.com|Thomas Friedman]]
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* The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
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* Boomerang - Michael Lewis
  
* The book talks about emergent systems and the difference between individual and group behavior.  He starts with an explanation of slime mold and then compares that with ant colonies, cities and the Internet.  I found it fascinating.
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== Politics ==
* Author: Stephen Johnson
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* The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
* [http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Software/dp/0684868768/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3245772-5210336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178491273&sr=1-1 Emergence on Amazon]
 
  
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== Investigative Reporting ==
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* [[ThreeCupsOfTea.com|Three Cups of Tea]] - Greg Mortenson (Northern Pakistan)
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* Jon Krakauer books:
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** Into Thin Air (Mt. Everest)
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** Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormon Fundamentalism)
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** Into the Wild (Alaska)
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* The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
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* Liars Poker - Michael Lewis
  
==Down and out in the Magic Kingdom ==
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== Biographical ==
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609610627 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World] - Jack Weatherford
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226654292&sr=1-11 The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life], Alice Schroeder
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* The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guavara
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* Lessons: An Autobiography - An Wang (Wang Laboratories)
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* The Ultimate Entrepreneur - Ken Olsen (DEC)
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* The Winner Within - Pat Riley (Lakers, Knicks)
  
* A cure for death has been found and as a result the only real currency that matters in this version of the future is personal reputation.  Adhocracy defined.
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== About Specific Businesses ==
* Author: Cory Doctorow
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* Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove (Intel)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Down-Magic-Kingdom-Cory-Doctorow/dp/076530953X/ref=sr_1_3/104-3245772-5210336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178491906&sr=1-3 Down and out in the Magic Kingdom on Amazon]
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* Maverick - Ricardo Semler (Semco)
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* Odyssey - John Scully (Apple)
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* Faster Company - Patrick Kelly (Physician Sales & Service)
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* Business at the Speed of Thought - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
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* The Road Ahead - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
  
== The Wisdom of Crowds ==
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== Happiness ==
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* Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh (Zappos guy)
* How can 800 non experts come up with a better guess as to the weight of a fully dressed cow?  This phenomenon is explored and applied to Las Vegas odds, the stock market and more.
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* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465028020/bookstorenow600-20 The Happiness Hypothesis] - Jonathan Haidt (super book)
* Author - James Surowiecki
 
* [http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706 Wisdom of Crowds on Amazon]
 
  
== Need to be described ==
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== Self Help ==
* [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html Smartmobs by Howard Reingold]
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* Unleashing the Soul of Money - Lynne Twist
* On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
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* The Power of Now - Eckhard Towle
* ... lots more to come
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== Fiction ==
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* The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
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* Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
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* First Kyu - Sung-Hwa Hong
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* The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
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* The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
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* The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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* A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Other-Rooms-Wonders/dp/0393068005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254176618&sr=1-1 In other rooms other wonders] - Daniyal Mueenuddin (Great perspective on Pakistan)
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* Down and out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
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* Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
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* Kite Runner
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* Memoirs of a Geisha
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* Fountainhead
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* Dan Brown Books (ok I'll admit it)
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** The Lost Symbol
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** DaVinci Code (Best in my opinion)
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** Angels and Demons
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** Digital Fortress
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** Deception Point
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* Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
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== Science Fiction ==
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* Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
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* Daemon - Daniel Suarez
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* Freedom - Daniel Suarez
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* Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  
 
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