Further Reading

I shamelessly pull ideas from many different sources. These are a few books I have pulled a significant number of ideas from. You can hear me talk about it with Tyler.

• The Advantage - core ideas on organizational health

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - same ideas but in a novel format whereas The Advantage is more of text book.

• Rework - from 37 signals aka Basecamp - it echoes a lot of what the Advantage has to say - less theoretical - more to say about software

• The Goal

  • Brilliant book in terms of explaining the theory of bottlenecks and systems. It’s by an Israeli physicist who turned business consultant. It’s written as a novel - and it’s quite a compelling read. It’s applied to manufacturing but as…

• The Machine - this shows the theory of bottlenecks can be extended beyond just manufacturing but to any process including one which involves humans and communication - ala sales and marketing.

• The dummies guide to emotional dynamics. Core principles of human communication - this is what the book should be called since it’s actual title might see a little ummm out of place in a business context. It’s meant to be a book about parenting but the reality is that emotional dynamics of a child are not any different to an adult. This book is where I got the kernel of the idea of problem solving from.