What are one to three management books you think are particularly good and that you would recommend?
| Bruce Barry | "The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism" by Paul Adler "Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?" by Virgil Henry Storr and Ginny Seung Choi |
| Jesse Blocher | Fooled by Randomness by Taleb It doesn't have to be crazy at work by Fried and Hansson Deep Work by Cal Newport |
| Hallie Cho | Everybody lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz The naked statistics by Charles Wheelan Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási |
| Rita Gunn | My favorite M&A book is the Art of Capital Restructuring by Baker (It is very dense but super interesting). Getting (More of) What you Want by Neale and Lys is a book I like on negotiations, though I am biased as Lys was my advisor. |
| Kelly Haws | Deep Work by Cal Newport The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath Good Leaders Ask Great Questions by John Maxwell |
| Kejia Hu | The gig economy The platform revolutionSign up for a news feed for two areas you are interested in from leading newspapers |
| Jessica Kennedy | Ray Dalio, Principles Trevor Voss, Never Split the Difference Adam Grant, Give and Take Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese |
| Michael Lapre | Bradley Staats Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive |
| Jon Lehman | "Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud" by Jack Ewing. “A rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic.” —Bethany McLean, New York Times Book Review |
| Ted Lomicka | Good to Great - Jim Collins |
| David Owens | Conceptual Blockbusting by James L. Adams Influence by Robert B. Cialdini |
| Miguel Palacios | The last two might not be considered management books, but I think they are good for managers: The Innovator's Dilemma (C. Christensen) Antifragile (N. Taleb) 12 Rules for Life (J. Peterson) |
| David Parsley | The fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Harari The Curse of Money, by Kenneth Rogoff |
| Veronika K Pool | HBR's 10 Must Reads 2020: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review |
| Kimberly Pace | Speak Like a CEO - Suzanne Bates Presentation Zen - Garr Reynolds Data Story - Nancy Duarte Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath |
| Steve Posavac | Re: Management - I only read journal articles. Otherwise, my reading is theology. |
| Berk Sensoy | I've been reading Principles by Dalio. Don't necessarily agree with everything, but interesting. |
| Riichard Willis | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher et al. |
| Tim Vogus | Give and Take by Adam Grant Leading Teams by Richard Hackman The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson |
What “fun to read” books on any topic would you recommend?
| Faculty | Recommendation |
|---|---|
| Yasin Allen | Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport |
| Jesse Blocher | Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow I have an odd definition of "fun to read". |
| Ray Friedman | The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. A powerful novel about life in North Korea. Won the Pulitzer Prize. News of the World: A Novel. Paulette Jiles. Set in the Western US. in the late 1800s. The story of a man who ends up taking care of a child. A Man Named Ove. Fredrik Backman. A sad and sweet story of an old man in Sweden, seemingly left alone, who meets an immigrant family. |
| Kelly Goldsmith | The Happiness Advantage |
| Rita Gunn | My fun to read books are mostly children’s books at this time. I really like the Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen. |
| Jessica Kennedy | Status Anxiety and How Proust Can Change Your Life (both by Alain de Botton) Living Forward (Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy) The New Yorker Magazine’s weekly fiction article, such as these two https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/cream https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there |
| Mumin Kurtulus | Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Hariri |
| Kelly Haws | Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz I Am Malala The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis |
| Michael Lapre | If you like Formula One racing: Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One by Ross Brawn, Adam ParrWinning Is Not Enough by Jackie Stewart |
| Jon Lehman | "A History of the World in Six Glasses" by Tom Standee tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. |
| Ted Lomicka | Going Long - Joe Friel |
| Brian McCann | Each of these is the first book in a series that is at the top of my fiction list (lead character in parentheses). Killing Floor by Lee Child (Jack Reacher) The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva (Gabriel Allon) Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Harry Dresden) The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole / Joe Pike) Rules of Prey by John Sanford (Lucas Davenport) |
| David Owens | Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce |
| Kimberly Pace | The Color of Water - James McBride Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dispatches from Pluto - Pat Conroy The Physician - Noah Gordan |
| Miguel Palacios | The Source (J. Michener) Love in Times of Cholera (G. García-Márquez) Sapiens (Y. Harari) |
| Veronika K Pool | Just some random titles from my recent Audible picks: Predictably Irrational - by Dan Ariely Flash Boys - Michael Lewis Beloved - Toni Morison |
| Rangaraj Ramanujam | These are not fun in any sense of the word, but they are hugely important and informative. The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wells-Wallace |
| Berk Sensoy | Comic books |
| Tim Vogus | Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano He also has two great PDFs he sells called Conference Room Five Minutes (10 Essays about the Office) and Where Do You Think We Are? (10 Essays about Scrubs). They are all amazing. |
| Richard Willis | A Mind at Home with Itself by Byron Katie |