Bookshelf
Title: Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
Read on: 2022
Key Takeaway: if your feelings do not match your actions, you are self-betraying. This led to building justifications in order to be right.
Read it if: you think you don't need to read it.
Title: Creativity, INC by Ed Catmul
Read on: 2021
Key Takeaway: the manager's role is to try to uncover what is unseen.
Read it if: you love Pixar movies and you search for some inspiration from a successful story.
Title: The productivity project by Chris Bailey
Read on: 2020
Key Takeaway: Productivity is about being deliberate on what you want to accomplish. Mindfulness is a powerful tool to achieve that.
Read it if: you struggle to have a sense of satisfaction for what you have done day by day.
Title: Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Read on: 2020
Key Takeaway: Organisations at different levels of maturity needs different organisational structures.
Read it if: if your team/organisation is growing fast and it's time to reshape it.
Title: The culture code by Daniel Coyle
Read on: 2019
Key Takeaway: A single bad apple is enough to make a good team fail. A single good apple can rescue them.
Read it if: if you are puzzled about why a group of people is not performing as they could.
Title: How to measure anything by Douglas W. Hubbard
Read on: 2018
Key Takeaway: You need less data that you would expect to make a more informed decision.
Read it if: you think there are things that can't be measured.
Title: Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo
Read on: 2017
Key Takeaway: Be mindful about using the right tools the wrong way. Servant Leadership.
Read it if: you want to get inspired about all the aspects of leadership, from theory to practice.
Title: Drive by Daniel H.Pink
Read on: 2016
Key Takeaway: it is the very first management book I've read. I found myself already quite aligned with it, but it gave me a more robust backbone.
Read it if: you don't know the difference among intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation.