Areas of Interest

In a work context I have a deep interest in a handful of areas – which have a core in management and leadership.

Lean – Agile – DevOps

• Agile Initiative Planning with Roadmaps – Murray Robinson
• Agile Product Management with Scrum – Roman Pichler
• Agile Project Management with Scrum – Ken Schwaber
• Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition – Lyssa Adkins
• Comic Agilé – Volume One – When Agility Meets Reality – And How To Manage It – Luxshan Ratnaravi & Mikkel Noe-Nygaard
• Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process – Kenneth S. Rubin
• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS – The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to be Agile – Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
• Lean Six Sigma – Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Speed – Michael L George
• Making Work Visible, Second Edition: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow – Dominica DeGrandis
• Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age – Roman Pichler
• Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility – Jonathan Smart
• Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum – Mike Cohn
• Tame your Work Flow: How Dr. Goldratt of “The Goal” would apply the Theory of Constraints to rethink knowledge-work management – Steve Tendon
• The Book of TameFlow: Theory of Constraints Applied to Knowledge-Work Management – Steve Tendon
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer – Jeffrey Liker
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win – 5th Anniversary Edition – Gene Kim
• User Stories Applied – For Agile Software Development – Mike Cohn

Business – Management – Leadership – Organization

• Beyond the Goal – Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt
• Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? – Aaron Dignan
• Business Model Generation – Alexander Ostewalder
• Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values – Fred Kofman
• Critical Chain: A Business Novel – Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt
• Critical Chain Project Management, Third Edition – Lawrence P. Leach
• Designing Your Organization: Using the Star Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges – Amy Kates and Jay R. Galbraith
• Goldratt’s Rules of Flow – Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag
• It’s Not Luck – Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – Simon Sinek
• Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth – John Doerr
• More Than Just Work: Innovations in Productivity to Inspire Your People and Uplift Performance – David V. Hodes
• No Common Objective – William H. Dettmer
• Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives – Mary Jo Hatch
• Organizational Behavior 1: Essential Theories of Motivation and Leadership – John B. Miner
• Pick a Fight – David Burkus
• Pseudowork – How we ended up being busy doing nothing – Dennis Nørmark and Anders Fogh Jensen
• Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership – Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action – Simon Sinek
• Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors – Patrick M. Lencioni
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business – Patrick M. Lencioni
• The Choice, Revised Edition – Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt
• The Emergent Approach to Strategy: Adaptive Design & Execution – Peter Compo
• The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth – Amy C. Edmondson
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization – Peter M. Senge
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick M. Lencioni
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt
• The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business – Arie de Geus
• The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving – A New edition of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints – H. William Dettmer
• The New New Product Development Game – Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
• Theory of Constraints Handbook – James F. Cox III
• Value Proposition Design – Alexander Ostewalder

Psychology – Motivation – Culture – Engagement – Behaviour – Cognition – Neuroscience – Philosophy

• ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and Our Community – Jeffrey Hiatt
• A Theory of Human Motivation – Abraham Harold Maslow
• A Typology of Organisational Cultures – Ron Westrum
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
• Den nydelsesfulde hjerne – Nydelsens og begærets mange ansigter – Morten L. Kringelbach
• Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems – Sidney Dekker
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek
• Flow: The Psychology of Happiness – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters – Michael Bungay Stanier
• I’m Afraid Debbie From Marketing Has Left for the Day: How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World – Morten Münster
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – Seth Godin
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor E. Frankl
• Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average from the Exceptional Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving – Peter Hollins
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Third Edition – Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts – Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
• Motivation and Personality – Abraham Harold Maslow
• Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment – Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) – Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values – Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness – Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Nudge: The Final Edition – Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators – Patrick M. Lencioni
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Socrates’ Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost – Ronald Gross
• Story Driven: You don’t need to compete when you know who you are – Bernadette Jiwa
• Surviving the Disengaging Workplace – Richard Claydon
• Switch: How to change things when change is hard – Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change – 30th Anniversary Edition – Stephen R. Covey
• The Allegory of the Cave by Plato – Benjamin Jowett
• The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness – Steve Peters
• The gift and power of emotional courage – Susan David
• The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? – Chris Brogan
• The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us – Christopher F. Chabris
• The Layers of Resistance – The Buy-In Process According to TOC – Theory of Constraints – Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
• The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems – Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin
• The Rocky Road from Actions to Intentions – Elizabeth Louise Newton
• The Trusted Advisor – David H. Maister, Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford
• The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything – Stephen M. R. Covey
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything – B. J. Fogg
• Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn – Sharon L. Bowman

Marketing & Sales

• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen – Donald Miller
• Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business – Donald Miller
• Marketing of High-Technology Products and Innovations – Jakki Mohr, Sanjit Sengupta and Stanley Slater

Innovation & Market Testing

• Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation – Gina C. O’Connor, Richard Leifer, Albert S. Paulson and Lois S. Peters
• Pretotype It – Make Sure You are Building the Right It Before You Build It Right – Alberto Savoia
• Pretotyping @ Work – Invent Like A Startup, Invest Like A Grownup – Jeremy Clark
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days – Jake Knapp
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed – Alberto Savoia

Other

• Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life – Oliver Burkeman
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Phillips Feynman
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – Richard Phillips Feynman
• Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker