Fall - on management
Spring - on education
Summer - on innovation, technology, and/or economic
Criteria of the book selection: the books should help us in personal and professional development, especially in education, technology, management, and economic fields. Have to been published at least five years ago, longer is better, and still being relevant today.
Each week the group of 3-7 friends meets online to discuss and reflect on one chapter of the book, which usually results in some action that we can immediately implement in our personal or professional life.
List of Books/Topics
Fall 2022 Management - Principles by Ray Dalio (Part III - about company operation)
Summer 2022 - Principles by Ray Dalio (Part I and II)
Spring 2022 Education - Assessment in Higher Education
Fall 2021 - Re-Read Traction
Summer 2021 Innovation - The future the faster than you think
Spring 2021 Education - E-learning, online course https://www.udemy.com/course/online-course-masters/learn/lecture/6754244?start=0#overview
Fall 2020 Management - Traction: Get a grip on your business by Wickman (Re-Read)
Summer 2020 Innovation: Where good ideas come from by S Johnson
Spring 2020 Education - What the best college teachers do by Bain
Fall 2019 Management - Executive in Action by Drucker
Summer 2019 Innovation - Design Thinking by Rowe
Spring 2019 Education - Stuck in the Shallow End by Margolis
Fall 2018 Management - Traction: Get a grip on your business by Wickman (great tools!)
Summer 2018 Innovation - The innovator's dilemma by Christensen
Spring 2018 Education - Educational Leadership by Jossey-Bass
Possible books in the future:
Management (Fall)
- One minute manager (Re-read)
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
- Good to Great
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Start with Why – Simon Sinek
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
Education (Spring)
- Make it stick - learning science
- Adult years - mastering the art of self-renewal by F Hudson
Innovation/Technology/Economic
- Sapiens by Harari
- The lesson of History
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View
Self-improvement
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
- Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
Classics that everyone should read
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
- The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
- Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Eric's 10 Books for Entrepreneurs (description excerpted from websites)
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Zero to one - best books for entrepreneurs
In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel explains why you should “focus on businesses that create something new.”
He talks about how many of today’s businesses are focused on moving the world from 1 to N. Or iterating and improving existing products.
In this book, Thiel is calling entrepreneurs, as the title suggests, to take the world from zero to one – to find entirely new solutions and products that create more value.
"Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action" by Simon Sinek
During a 2009 TED Talk that's been viewed more than 56 million times, Sinek told the crowd, "People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
"Start with Why" explores this idea further, outlining how entrepreneurs and business owners can discover their purpose and, in turn, inspire others.
"Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business" by Gino Wickman
Readers familiar with the common frustrations of business ownership – personnel conflict, profit woes and inadequate growth – may find help in Gino Wickman's "Traction." The book reviews his system for strengthening six key components of a business. First published in 2012, the system outlined in this book, he says, still holds true in 2021.
"My advice to entrepreneurs remains consistent - get what you want from your business," Wickman says. "Far too many business owners and leaders don't; crises caused by a global pandemic or the collapse of financial markets certainly intensify that problem."
"Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business" by Charles Duhigg
There's no doubt owning a business requires any number of challenging decisions in a single day. Readers can harness insights from the latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics in "Smarter Faster Better" to streamline those decision-making and goal-setting processes.
"For small businesses, productivity is the difference between success and failure. But not all productivity is equal," author Charles Duhigg says. "Optimizing something that you should never have done in the first place is productivity death. And so every entrepreneur should remember that, throughout all of history, there has only been one killer productivity app: thinking more deeply about the choices you are making, and finding some way to force yourself to think when it's hardest to do."
The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
The Lean Startup is a must-read and easily tops the list of the best business books for entrepreneurs. This book is all about how to turn your startup idea into a sustainable business.
The detailed approach Eric Ries takes can help you build a product or service that customers want, and are willing to pay for. All with minimum wasted time or effort.
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
Since its initial publication in 1967, Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive has helped millions of executives (or knowledge workers as Drucker calls them) improve their effectiveness.
Throughout this book, Drucker shows how you can develop personal effectiveness. The idea behind the book is that in a world that is increasingly dependent on knowledge-based work, more knowledge workers need to improve their effectiveness.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
by John C. Maxwell
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
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