Book Recommendations
A list of books and resources on design, strategy and tech. I’ll add more details about why I recommend each book/resource over time.
On Strategy
Books
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
- Innovators Dilemma - Professor Christensen
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- Team of Teams - Stanley McChrystal
- Blue Ocean Strategy - Chan Kim
- Radical Help - Hillary Cottam
- Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? - Louis Gerstner (IBM's transformation)
Newsletters/Articles
- Benedict Evans (A16z)
- Ben Thompson (Stratechery)
- Learning by shipping
- No Mercy, No Malice
- Tren Griffin (25iq) - Mostly Financial analysis and strategy
- Simon Wardley (Wardley Maps)
On Design
Books
- The Halo Effect - Phil Rozenzwieg
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas - Jake Knapp
- The Design Thinking Playbook - Michael Lewrick et al.
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Newsletters/Articles
- UX Collective
- High Scalability (V. Techy!)
- Google AI UX playbook
- A16z’s AI/ML Primer
- GDS’s Service Manual - How the government delivers Digital
- NHS’s Service Manual - Ditto how the Digital NHS transformation is delivering services
On Delivery
Books
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
- The Lean Startup & The Startup Way - Eric Ries
- The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank
- The High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil
- The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim et al.
- Measure What Matters - John Doerr
- Trillion Dollar Coach - Alan Eagle et al.
- Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman
- The Corporate Startup - Tendayi Viki
Newsletters/Articles
- John Cutle (Product Management)
- Inclusion in Tech
- Google’s Management processes
- GCHQs Delivery Strategy
- Government as a platform
Company Biographies
Books
- The Everything Store (Amazon) - Brad Stone
- Shoe Dog (Nike) - Phil Knight
- The Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron) - Bethany McLean
- Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (IBM) - Louis Gerstner
- Bad Blood (Theranos) - John Carreyrou
- Let My People Go Surfing (Patagonia) - Yvon Chouinard
- Lords of Strategy (McKinsey/BCG/Bain) - Walter Kiechel