My Reading List
Books that have shaped my thinking about leadership, innovation, and human behavior.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Groundbreaking exploration of the two systems that drive how we think and the cognitive biases that affect our everyday decisions.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The quintessential guide to understanding human relations and influencing people positively.
Entrepreneurship: A Strategic Approach
Frameworks for approaching entrepreneurship as a systematic, strategic process rather than just inspiration.
The Stormlight Archive
Epic fantasy series set in the world of Roshar, following the stories of characters caught in the middle of an ancient conflict that shapes their world.
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
Evidence-based insights on how power operates in organizations and how to develop it.
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
Evidence-based insights on how power operates in organizations and how to develop it.
Getting to Yes
The classic text on principled negotiation from the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Getting Past No
Strategies for breaking through barriers to cooperation and consensus.
Never Split the Difference
Revolutionary negotiation techniques from an ex-FBI hostage negotiator.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Classic work on the six universal principles of influence and how to use them ethically.
Give and Take
How helping others drives our success and why givers often rise to the top.
All You Have to Do Is Ask
How to overcome barriers to asking for help and build a culture of productive requests.
Power, for All
Understanding power dynamics and leveraging them for positive change.
You Have More Influence than You Think
Research-backed insights on our hidden social influence and how to harness it.
Friend & Foe
When to cooperate, when to compete, and how to succeed at both in business and life.
The Manager's Path
A guide for tech leaders navigating growth from managing one person to managing managers.
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Practical guidance for technical professionals transitioning into leadership roles.
The Coaching Habit
How to use seven essential questions to become a more effective and time-efficient coach.
Turn the Ship Around
How a submarine commander transformed a low-performing team by distributing leadership.
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
How to step up to leadership by changing your actions first, not your mindset.
The Leader's Brain
How neuroscience can help you become a better leader through understanding brain function.
Art of War
Ancient military treatise with enduring lessons on strategy and leadership.
Tools for Teams
Practical tools and frameworks for building and managing high-performing teams.
Radical Candor
How to be a great boss by caring personally while challenging directly.
The Progress Principle
Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement, and creativity at work.
Alive at Work
The neuroscience of helping your people love what they do and unleashing employee creativity.
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
How subtle "choice architecture" can ethically influence better decision-making.
Predictably Irrational
Exploring the hidden forces that shape our decisions in predictable, irrational ways.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
The intellectual memoir of how behavioral economics challenged traditional economic models.
Atomic Habits
How tiny changes in behavior lead to remarkable results through compound effects.
Neuroscience
Comprehensive introduction to the biological foundations of brain and behavior.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Groundbreaking exploration of the two systems that drive how we think and the cognitive biases that affect decisions.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
A counterintuitive approach to living a good life by focusing on what truly matters.
Get it Done
Surprising lessons from the science of motivation and how to apply them to achieve goals.
How to Change
The science of getting from where you are to where you want to be by overcoming barriers to change.
Crossing the Chasm
Marketing and selling disruptive products to mainstream customers and navigating the technology adoption lifecycle.
Entrepreneurship: A Strategic Approach
Frameworks for approaching entrepreneurship as a systematic, strategic process rather than just inspiration.
The Mom's Test
How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you.
The Lean Startup Methodology
How constant experimentation and validated learning can build successful businesses in conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Inside the Box
Systematic innovation using five techniques that leverage existing components and concepts.
Resistance to Innovation
Understanding why people resist new ideas and how to overcome innovation resistance.
Innovation Tournament
Structured approach to generating exceptional opportunities for growth and innovation.
Demand-Side Sales
Customer-centric approach to sales that focuses on the job the customer is hiring your product to do.
The Stormlight Archive
Epic fantasy series set in the world of Roshar, following the stories of characters caught in the middle of an ancient conflict that shapes their world.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Follows the adventures of a gifted con artist and his band of thieves known as the "Gentleman Bastards" in a Venice-inspired fantasy city.
Mistborn
A fantasy trilogy featuring a unique magic system based on metals and a heist storyline against an immortal ruler in a world of ash and mist.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Comedic science fiction series following the misadventures of Arthur Dent, who explores the galaxy after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
A Song of Ice and Fire
Complex political fantasy series featuring multiple viewpoint characters in a medieval world of feuding noble houses, intrigue, and supernatural threats.
The Martian
Hard science fiction novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity and knowledge of science to survive until rescue.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Revisionist history that portrays Genghis Khan not as a barbarian conqueror but as an innovative leader who established the foundation for the modern world.
Why Nations Fail
The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty through the lens of inclusive and extractive institutions.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A sweeping narrative of humanity's creation and evolution exploring how biology and history have shaped human societies and cultures.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
A counterintuitive approach to living a good life by focusing on what truly matters.