The most popular item on my blog is the book list I made at Agile 2010.
As I read a lot of books, I wondered what other booklist could I make. I try to read at least one book every month that has nothing to do with IT. At this moment I am preparing a 2 day leadership course, although I have lots of agile, and IT books on my desk, these are the non IT one’s I have at my desk:
– The 7 habits of effective people
– The Goal
– Blink
– Training From the back of the room
– The Five dysfunction of a team
– How the brain learns to read
– Implementing Beyond Budgeting
– This is your brain on music (for the late David ‘Dude’ Hussman this was a must read book)
– Drive
– Linchpin
– Outliers
As any list, this list is not complete, I even think it is very biased in one direction (I feel that all these books could reference each other) What books do you think I should add?
5 comments on “19 Non-IT books at my desk”
Although it is inspired on IT Teams and technology companies, I recommend the book I’m reading now : Peopleware by Demarco and Lister.
Would love to hear more about what you cover in your leadership course.
You can find some of my topics on slideshare:
The speed of trust
Real options
Slack (myth of total efficiency)
//www.slideshare.net/YvesHanoulle
In case you’re not too busy and still reading a non-IT book a month i’d recommend ‘Daring Greatly’ by Brené Brown. Let me know what you think of it.
Here’s a short intro: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0&list=PLC7Q7kQ0BpCuqdXuL496CYiYMN0f9cQsT