The Library
The books behind the guides.
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 51 books.
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The Library
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 51 books.
51 of 51 books
Ro Gorell, Gillian Jones
A practical, dip-in reference toolkit of 50 proven, adaptable coaching tools that equip coaches, managers, and individuals to develop and empower people across every situation from goal setting and confidence to hybrid working and neurodivergence.
James Webb Young
Idea generation is not magic but a definite, learnable five-step mental technique built on the principle that ideas are new combinations of old elements.
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
A radical new model for unleashing a company's potential by creating a culture where everyone is dedicated to personal growth, turning weaknesses and errors into opportunities for development.
Some things benefit from shocks, volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors—and the book builds a systematic, nonpredictive way to identify, classify, and exploit this property called antifragility across health, economics, politics, technology, and ethics.
A practical leadership guide showing managers how to identify, reduce, and prevent workplace anxiety using eight evidence-based strategies that build resilience and improve team performance.
Wayne F. Cascio & Herman Aguinis
A comprehensive, research-based textbook that applies the principles of psychology to the field of human resource management to make organizations more effective and work more satisfying.
Michael Armstrong
A comprehensive guide to aligning human resource strategies with business objectives to enhance organizational performance and achieve sustained competitive advantage.
An exploration of rapid cognition—the split-second, unconscious judgments we make in the blink of an eye—that reveals when these snap decisions serve us brilliantly and when they betray us catastrophically.
Donald Miller
A seven-part, story-based communication framework that teaches businesses to clarify their message by casting the customer as the hero and the brand as the guide, so more customers listen and buy.
A foundational guide that introduces timeless frameworks, including the Five Forces, for analyzing industry structure and competitor behavior to formulate a strategy that achieves sustainable competitive advantage and superior profitability.
Two IDEO and d.school founders argue that creativity is not a rare gift but a natural human capacity anyone can reclaim by building 'creative confidence'—the belief in one's ability to create change combined with the courage to act.
Geoffrey A. Moore
A field-tested marketing model explaining why disruptive high-tech products stall between early enthusiasts and mainstream buyers, and how to bridge that gap to achieve market dominance.
Patterson, Kerry, Joseph Grenny etc.
When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, mastering the skills of dialogue lets you speak honestly and safely about almost anything and turn tough moments into better results and relationships.
When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, mastering the skills of dialogue lets you speak honestly and safely about almost anything and turn tough moments into better results and relationships.
Doug Hall
Driving Eureka! shows how to transform innovation from a random gamble into a reliable, data-driven science by applying W. Edwards Deming's system thinking to how organizations create, communicate, and commercialize ideas.
Ryan Hamilton
A scientific tour of how human decisions are actually made—through a metaphor of decision-making as a manufacturing process shaped by cognitive machinery, motivational controls, and informational inputs.
For Human Resources to deliver sustainable business value, it must adopt an 'outside-in' perspective, aligning internal talent and culture practices with external stakeholder expectations and market realities.
To gain a competitive edge in a world where talent and work are no longer confined to traditional jobs, leaders must shift from managing employees to leading work by strategically designing assignments, organizations, and rewards.
A practical treatise on the mental skills, habits, and craft that enable scientists to make discoveries, arguing that research is an art rather than a purely logical science.
Originality is a choice, not a fixed trait, and this book reveals the surprising habits and strategic approaches that enable ordinary people to successfully champion novel ideas and challenge the status quo.
Idea generation is not magic but a definite, learnable five-step mental technique built on the principle that ideas are new combinations of old elements.
A comprehensive academic handbook exploring the diverse theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of organizational decision making from multiple disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociology.
A scientific tour of how human decisions are actually made—through a metaphor of decision-making as a manufacturing process shaped by cognitive machinery, motivational controls, and informational inputs.
A legendary computer scientist reveals that greatness is a learnable style of thinking, teaching readers how to cultivate a vision, work on important problems, and make significant contributions in science and engineering.
Driving Eureka! shows how to transform innovation from a random gamble into a reliable, data-driven science by applying W. Edwards Deming's system thinking to how organizations create, communicate, and commercialize ideas.
Our world is dominated by unpredictable, high-impact events ('Black Swans'), and our cognitive biases and flawed statistical tools make us blind to them, leading to catastrophic errors in forecasting and risk management.
A consumer psychologist reveals how human decisions are 'manufactured' from the interplay of cognitive machinery, motivational controls, and informational raw materials—and why we so predictably deviate from rational choice.
A practical economics guide that reveals where the uncertainty in our lives comes from and how to use tools from economics and finance to manage risk rather than eliminate it.
A guided tour of why smart, capable leaders and organizations make disastrous decisions—and how to design decision processes that harness collective intelligence to make better choices.
Two IDEO and d.school founders argue that creativity is not a rare gift but a natural human capacity anyone can reclaim by building 'creative confidence'—the belief in one's ability to create change combined with the courage to act.
An exploration of rapid cognition—the split-second, unconscious judgments we make in the blink of an eye—that reveals when these snap decisions serve us brilliantly and when they betray us catastrophically.
A busy manager can become an effective everyday coach by learning to give less advice and ask a little more curiously, using seven simple questions built into daily habits.
The Cynefin framework helps leaders diagnose which of five decision contexts they face—simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, or disorder—and adapt their leadership style accordingly.
Through the life and coaching principles of Bill Campbell, the mentor behind Apple, Google, and Intuit, the book argues that being a great manager requires being a great coach who builds trust, leads teams, and brings love into the workplace.
Human error stems as much from 'noise'—the unwanted and costly variability in our professional judgments—as from bias, and this book reveals its hidden impact and provides a systematic 'decision hygiene' toolkit to reduce it.
Change fails not because of the situational change itself but because organizations neglect the three-phase psychological transition—endings, neutral zone, and new beginnings—that people must go through for change to actually work.
A former FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator distills field-tested, emotion-driven tactics into a practical system for winning any negotiation while preserving the relationship.
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony etc.
Human error stems as much from 'noise'—the unwanted and costly variability in our professional judgments—as from bias, and this book reveals its hidden impact and provides a systematic 'decision hygiene' toolkit to reduce it.
Originality is a choice, not a fixed trait, and this book reveals the surprising habits and strategic approaches that enable ordinary people to successfully champion novel ideas and challenge the status quo.
A former Netflix executive reveals how to build a high-performance culture by replacing traditional HR policies with a radical commitment to freedom, responsibility, and relentless talent management.
A former Netflix executive reveals how to build a high-performance culture by replacing traditional HR policies with a radical commitment to freedom, responsibility, and relentless talent management.
A guided tour of why smart, capable leaders and organizations make disastrous decisions—and how to design decision processes that harness collective intelligence to make better choices.
Richard Hamming
A legendary computer scientist reveals that greatness is a learnable style of thinking, teaching readers how to cultivate a vision, work on important problems, and make significant contributions in science and engineering.
W. I. B. Beveridge
A practical treatise on the mental skills, habits, and craft that enable scientists to make discoveries, arguing that research is an art rather than a purely logical science.
Incerto
Our world is dominated by unpredictable, high-impact events ('Black Swans'), and our cognitive biases and flawed statistical tools make us blind to them, leading to catastrophic errors in forecasting and risk management.
Michael Bungay Stanier
A busy manager can become an effective everyday coach by learning to give less advice and ask a little more curiously, using seven simple questions built into daily habits.
A practical economics guide that reveals where the uncertainty in our lives comes from and how to use tools from economics and finance to manage risk rather than eliminate it.
Clayton M. Christensen
A practical guide for managers and entrepreneurs to predictably create and sustain profitable growth by mastering and applying the theories of disruptive innovation.
A practical guide for managers and entrepreneurs to predictably create and sustain profitable growth by mastering and applying the theories of disruptive innovation.
Hodgkinson, Gerard P., - Starbuck .
A comprehensive academic handbook exploring the diverse theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of organizational decision making from multiple disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociology.
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Through the life and coaching principles of Bill Campbell, the mentor behind Apple, Google, and Intuit, the book argues that being a great manager requires being a great coach who builds trust, leads teams, and brings love into the workplace.