readings
A list of books I've read and ordered under headings that make sense in relation to my work. Particularly for those interested in knowing who has influenced my thinking or to learn about a discipline.
Strategic and Systemic Design
Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Tex Skuthorpe and Karl-Erik Sveiby
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dark Emu: Black Seeds by Bruce Pascoe
Decolonising Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffenson
Men's Business, Women's Business: The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World's Oldest Culture by Hannah Rachel Bell
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
Parecon: Life after Capitalism by Michael Albert
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism by John P. Clark
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary by Dan Hill
Recipes for Systemic Change by Brian Boyer
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future by Geoff Mulgan
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholes Taleb
Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for 21st Century by Yuval Noah Hurari
Organisational Design
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan
Organise for Complexity: How to get life back into work to build a high performance organisation by Neils Pflaeging
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux
Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time by Samantha Slade
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy Edmondson
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal
Getting Our Act Together: How to Harness the Power of Groups by Glen Ochre
Do Improvise: Less Push. More Pause. Better Results. A New Approach to Work by Robert Poynton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Creativity Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
The 8th Habit and The 3rd Alternative by Stephen R. Covey and The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey
Enterprise Design and Start Ups
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufmann
The Start Up Playbook by Sam Altman
Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges by Zaid Hassan
Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact by Jocelyn K. Glei
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Wtf?: What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences by Brian Solis
Program/Service/Learning Design
The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions by Miki Kashtan
This is Service Design by Marc Stickdorn
Learning Arch Design: Users Manual by Simon Kavanagh
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
Think Wrong by John Bielenberg
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin Seligman
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World by Jeremy Hiemans
Legible Practice by Brian Boyer
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by Jon Hagel
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Self/Social Understanding (Innerwork)
Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity and Leaders as Martial Artist by Arnold Mindel
The Way of the Owl: Succeeding with Integrity in a Conflicted World by Frank Rivers
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion and Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry
The Freedom Paradox: Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
Other Great Books
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff
How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton
The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Dennis
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future by Larissa Behrendt
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Ben Lorr
The Course of Love, Art of Travel, and Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul
Non-Fiction
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
A Very Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells
Utopia by Thomas Moore
The Seven Stages of Grieving by Wesley Enoch
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida edited by Robert Chandler
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
Next to Read
Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development by Miriam Jorgensen
The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge
Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values by Hirini Moko Mead
A Path Made by Walking: Process Work in Practice by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
Strategic and Systemic Design
Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Tex Skuthorpe and Karl-Erik Sveiby
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dark Emu: Black Seeds by Bruce Pascoe
Decolonising Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffenson
Men's Business, Women's Business: The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World's Oldest Culture by Hannah Rachel Bell
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
Parecon: Life after Capitalism by Michael Albert
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism by John P. Clark
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary by Dan Hill
Recipes for Systemic Change by Brian Boyer
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future by Geoff Mulgan
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholes Taleb
Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for 21st Century by Yuval Noah Hurari
Organisational Design
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan
Organise for Complexity: How to get life back into work to build a high performance organisation by Neils Pflaeging
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux
Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time by Samantha Slade
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy Edmondson
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal
Getting Our Act Together: How to Harness the Power of Groups by Glen Ochre
Do Improvise: Less Push. More Pause. Better Results. A New Approach to Work by Robert Poynton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Creativity Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
The 8th Habit and The 3rd Alternative by Stephen R. Covey and The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey
Enterprise Design and Start Ups
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufmann
The Start Up Playbook by Sam Altman
Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges by Zaid Hassan
Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact by Jocelyn K. Glei
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Wtf?: What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences by Brian Solis
Program/Service/Learning Design
The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions by Miki Kashtan
This is Service Design by Marc Stickdorn
Learning Arch Design: Users Manual by Simon Kavanagh
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
Think Wrong by John Bielenberg
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin Seligman
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World by Jeremy Hiemans
Legible Practice by Brian Boyer
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by Jon Hagel
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Self/Social Understanding (Innerwork)
Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity and Leaders as Martial Artist by Arnold Mindel
The Way of the Owl: Succeeding with Integrity in a Conflicted World by Frank Rivers
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion and Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry
The Freedom Paradox: Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
Other Great Books
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff
How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton
The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Dennis
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future by Larissa Behrendt
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Ben Lorr
The Course of Love, Art of Travel, and Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul
Non-Fiction
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
A Very Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells
Utopia by Thomas Moore
The Seven Stages of Grieving by Wesley Enoch
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida edited by Robert Chandler
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
Next to Read
Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development by Miriam Jorgensen
The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge
Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values by Hirini Moko Mead
A Path Made by Walking: Process Work in Practice by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin