Personal Bookshelf

Design

• The Design of Everyday Things
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• The Elements of User Experience
• Designing Web Interfaces
• A Project Guide to UX Design
• Subject To Change
• Smashing UX Design
• Information Architecture
• Communicating Design
• Articulating Design Decisions
• Seductive Interaction Design
• Designing Together
• 100 Things: Every Designer Needs to Know About People
• Sketching User Experiences
• Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
• Service Design
• Prototyping
• Don’t Make Me Think
• Designing Interfaces
• UX Strategy
• The User Experience Team of One
• Lean UX
• Designing with the Mind in Mind
• Web Form Design
• Interviewing Users
• Measuring the User Experience
• Mental Models
• The UX Book
• Designing for the Digital Age
• Microinteractions
• Designing for Interaction
• Observing the User Experience
• The Sketchnote Handbook
• Handbook of Usability Testing
• Practical Empathy

Management

• High Output Management
• The One Minute Manager
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
• counterpoint: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
• Rework
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Though Conversations. Whole Hearts.
• Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Redesigning Leadership

• What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP
• Awesome Leadership and Management
• General Management Syllabus
• 101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones
• Any Julie Zhuo article
• Any Signal vs Noise Article

Communication

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
• The Pyramid Principle
• Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?"
• Non Violent Communication: A language of life

Time Management & Productivity

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• Inbox Freedom: The Zen Master’s Guide to Tackling Your Email and Work
• Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
• Triggers: Creating Behaviours that Lasts

• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
• 70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day

Self Management / Career

• Principles: Life and Work
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
• Designing Your Life
• Mastery
• Linchpin
• The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter
• The Laws of Simplicity

• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
• The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
• Guide to Career Planning
• Love
• Ikigai: How to Find Professional Success

Innovation

• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
• Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
• Crossing the Chasm
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing
• Zero to One
• The Brand Gap: How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design