Notes

Here's a list of books and Ted Talks we've found interesting, thought-provoking or helpful. We've tried to put them in categories but the line between living, leading, managing and communicating is not at all clear. What's on your list?

Recent Reads

Gawande, Atul. The Checklist Manifesto. New York: Picador, 2011.

Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control: the rise of neo-biological civilization. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Leading

Bennis, Warren, and Bert Nanus. Leaders. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Block, Peter. Stewardship. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993, 1996.

DePree, Max. Leadership Is An Art. New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.

Gardner, John. On Leadership. New York: The Free Press, 1990.

Mitchell, Stephen. Tao Te Ching. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Owen, Harrison. Leadership Is. Potomac MD: Abbott Publishing, 1990.

Managing

Collins, Jim. Good To Great. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Gawande, Atul. Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance. New York: Picador, 2007.

Katzenbach, Jon R. and Smith, Douglas K. The Wisdom of Teams. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Nayar, Vineet. Employees First, Customers Second: turning conventional management upside down. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2010.

Reynolds, Garr. Presentation Zen Design. Berkeley: New Riders, 2010.

Communicating

Zeldin, Theodore. Conversation. New Jersey: Hidden Spring, 2000.

Living

Dillaway, Newton. Consent. Lee's Summit, MO: Unity Books, 1967.

Fromm, Erich. The Art of Being. New York: Continuum International Publishing, 1992.

Ladinsky, Daniel. Love Poems from God. New York: Penguin, 2002.

Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Swimme, Brian. The Universe Is A Green Dragon. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2001.

Toomer, Jean. Essentials. Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 1999.

Thought Provoking

Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan. New York: Random House, 2010.

Worth Watching to Stretch your Perceptions

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen

Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain

Hip-hop, creativity and the brain: Q&A with Dr. Charles Limb

Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy