Reading List

  • Immunity to Change

    One of the foundational theories in my studies and approach to leadership development coaching. The deep-rooted assumptions and conflicting commitments at play – unseen and unconscious – that influence our ability to make meaningful progress toward our best intentions.

  • Thinking in Systems

    Suggests some of the biggest problems facing the world―war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation―are essentially system failures, and cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others. Seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    About the two systems that shape our judgments and decisions and insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives.

  • The Great Mental Models

    Cognitive tools for understanding ways to approach problems, grasp new concepts, identify patterns, and understand how the world works objectively.

  • Measure What Matters

    Origin and application of the OKR goal-setting system. Objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame.

  • Limits to Growth

    Amazing and long-debated research that asks if it possible to alter growth trends impacting industry and resources in a way that would create sustainable ecological and economic stability.

  • The Extended Mind

    The thesis and research here is fascinating. Essentially, our individual cognitive abilities and processes are not limited by what we are able to think in our mind. Rather they are connected to how our bodies, environments, and relationships, are instruments (not just signals) that play a key role in our ability to comprehend.

  • Presence-Based Leadership

    An expansive and integrated approach to leadership development based on a simple premise: a leaders’ most crucial and complex challenges, rather than being obstacles, are actually doorways for becoming precisely the leader that current conditions require.

  • Peak Performance

    The latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains.

  • The Interaction Field

    Proposes companies who embrace this model generate, facilitate, and benefit from data exchanges among multiple people and groups to solve immediate challenges of people today, and the major social and economic challenges of the future.

  • Homo Deus

    Explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental question: Where do we go from here?

  • Essentialism

    A systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.

  • Endure

    The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we’re capable of?

  • Descartes' Error

    Descartes challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotion, reason, and the human brain. Emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behavior.

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

    Inspiring, honest, practical and personal insights about the creative process and how we unlock it through the awareness of it in all its forms within and around ourselves.

  • Conscious Capitalism

    In support of reimagining capitalism leveraging its best features and developing a blueprint for a new system for doing business grounded in a more evolved ethical consciousness.

  • Antifragile

    Making uncertainty desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner; beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

  • Your True Home

    Inspiring, joyful, and deeply insightful… how practicing mindfulness can improve every area of our lives—and how its benefits radiate beyond us to affect others and the whole, larger world.

  • Silence in the Age of Noise

    What really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever? Explores the power of silence and the importance of the practice of shutting out the world.

  • Community: The Structure of Belonging

    An exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved?