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BOOKS WORTH READING

The Alchemy of Growth

Baghai, Mehrdad, et al. The Alchemy of Growth: Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise. Perseus Books, 2000.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Rand, Ayn, et al. Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal. Signet, 2008.

Double Loop Learning

Argyris, Chris. “Double Loop Learning in Organizations.” Harvard Business Review, 1 Aug. 2014, hbr.org/1977/09/double-loop-learning-in-organizations.

Four Practical Revolutions in Management

Shiba, Shoji, and David Walden. Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability. CRC Press, 2007.

The Road to Serfdom

Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.

The Living Company

Geus, Arie de. The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business. Nicholas Brealey, 2001.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.

Understanding Computers and Cognition

Winograd, Terry, and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: a New Foundation for Design. Addison-Wesley, 2008.

The Ambidextrous Organization

O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael L. Tushman. “The Ambidextrous Organization.” Harvard Business Review, 12 Apr. 2016, hbr.org/2004/04/the-ambidextrous-organization.

Creating the Corporate Future

Ackoff, Russell Lincoln. Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or Be Planned For. Wiley, 1981.

Global Stakes

Botkin, J., et al. Global Stakes: the Future of High Technology in America. Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982.

The Essential Drucker

Drucker, Peter F. The Essential Drucker: the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management. Harper, 2014.

Judgement

Tichy, Noel M., and Warren G. Bennis. Judgement: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. Portfolio, 2007.

The Second Machine Age

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

The Nature of Technology

Arthur, W. Brian. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. Free Press, 2011.

Built to Last

Collins, James C., and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Random House Business, 2005.

The Innovators

Botkin, J., et al. The Innovators: Rediscovering America's Creative Energy. Harper & Row, 1984.

Crossing the Chasm

Moore, Geoffrey A. Crossing the Chasm. Capstone, 1998.

The Fifth Discipline

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Crown Business, 2006.

Language in Thought and Action 

Hayakawa, S.I. Language in Thought and Action. George Allen & Unwin, 1963.

Overcoming Organizational Defenses

Argyris, Chris. Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning. Prentice-Hall, 1990.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

The Virtue of Selfishness

Rand, Ayn, and Nathaniel Branden. The Virtue of Selfishness: a New Concept of Egoism. Paw Prints, 2016.

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