This year was the first time I was at theAmplifiying your effectiveness (AYE) conference.

This was a conference were the number of books that were mentioned at sessions was very high. (As in: in every session at least 3 great books were mentioned)

So here is a list of all the books mentioned at AYE:

• Are your Light On? by Jerry Weinberg
• The artists way by Julie Cameron (and other books by her)
• Becoming a Technical Leader by Jerry Weinberg
• Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
• The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) by K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich and Robert R. Hoffman
• The Checklist manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• Clean Language:Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds – Wendy Sullivan
• Communication Gaps and How to Close Them by Naomi Karten
• The Core protocols, an experience report article by Yves Hanoulle,  Jim & Michele McCarthy, Els Ryssen, Paul Reeves, Christopher Thibaut,Adam Feuer, Ralph Miarka, Mary Poppendieck, Gino Marckx, Alistair Cockburn, Philip Almey, Lilian Nijboer, Esther Derby.
• Crucial conversations by Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan and Joseph Grenny
• Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools by Preston G. Smith
• Dreyfus model
• Effectual Entrepreneurshi​p by Stuart Read
• Exploratory social network analysis with Pajek by Wouter De Nooy
• Exploring Requirements by Donald Gauss & Jerry Weinberg
• Facilitating Organizational Change by Glenda Eoyang
• Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising (Hardcover)
• The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto
• System Thinking basics From Concepts to Causal Loops by Virginia Anderson
• Half the Sky, Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
• Influencing Patterns for Change by Royce Holladay
• The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace by W. Timothy Gallwey
• The introvert advantage by Marti Olsen Laney
• Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do by Gary Klein
• Kanban by David Anderson
• Khan academy (web site for those wishing to learn science and humanities topics on their own.   Learn by watching videos and then practicing)
• Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances  by J. Richard Hackman (Hardcover)
• The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative by Stephen Denning
• Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The Logic of Failure by Dietrch Dorner
• Making contact by Virginia Satir
• Managing Expectations by Naomi Karten
• Manage it! by Johanna Rothman
• Managing transitions by William Bridges
• Metaphors we live by  by George Lackoff
• Personal Kanban  by Jim Benson
• Please understand me by David Keirsey
• Philosophy in the Flesh by George Lackoff
• The Political Mind by George Lackoff
• Powerfull questions by Eric Vogt
• Quality Software Management (QSM) by Jerry Weinberg (Mentioned in almost every session)
• Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli twitterID
• the re-engineering alternative by William Schneider
• The satir model by Virginia Satir
•  Seeing Systems by Barry Oshry twitter
• Six Thinking Hats by Edward DeBono
• Slack by Tom Demarco
• Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision by Jim McCarthy and Michele McCarthy
• The Solutions Focus Book (Making Coaching and Change s.i.m.p.l.e) by Paul Jackson
• Sources of power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
• Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Gary Klein
• Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How by Daniel Coyle
• The thin book of appreciative inquiry by Sue Annis Hammond
• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
• The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Dave Logan & Steve Zaffron
• Tools for Critical Thinking  by David Levy
• What type am I? by Renee Baron
• The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
• Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (Bradford Books) by Beth Crandall, Gary Klein and Robert R. Hoffman (Paperback – Jul 7, 2006)
• Your many faces by Virginia Satir

Books mentioned by the 4 AYE hosts & participants: Don, Esther, Johanna, Jerry, Jeremy Lightsmith, June Kim,Todd Charron, yves

A BIG THANK YOU Andrea, Chris, Don, Esther, Jerry , June, Michael,Morgan, Rafael for helping me remember all those.