Books
Here are some of the books I’ve found useful. I’ve tried to include any books I’ve referenced when speaking.
Leadership & creativity
- Tribes – Seth Godin
- Linchpin – Seth Godin
- Poke the Box – Seth Godin
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
- Daring Greatly – Brené Browne
- Rising Strong – Brené Browne
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
User-centred design
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper
- Well-Designed – Jon Kolko
- Meta Skills – Marty Neimier
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody – Abby Covert
- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School – Matthew Frederick
Agile & Lean UX
- Lean UX – Jeff Gothelf
- User Story Mapping – Jeff Patton
- Lean Analytics – Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
- Frugal Innovation – Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers – Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
Research, data & analytics
- Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction – Nate Silver
Designing better organisations
- Good to Great – Jim Collins
- Culture Shock: A Handbook For 21st Century Business – Will McInnes
- Betterness: Economics for Humans – Umair Haque
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