27 Books for L&D Folks...

I have listed down a few books that have shaped my thinking over the last one year. I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. They are not predominantly directly related to learning or instructional design or theory (except for one or two); however, they all helped me to see the larger picture, to understand where workplace learning and training fits in, and why and where change is needed. There are many more that can be added to the list but I will keep that for another post…You can see some of them in the picture of my bookshelf above...

Some of the might seem out of place in a list for L&D folks, but I think it is important to read around a subject to understand the context, and the emerging patterns...

Sr. #	Subject	Title	Author
1	Instructional Design	Multimedia Learning	Richard Mayer
2	Workplace Learning	The Fifth Discipline	Peter Senge
3	Workplace Learning	Informal learning	Jay Cross
4	Workplace learning	The Working Smarter Fieldbook	Jay Cross
5	Workplace Learning/Training	Social Media for Trainers	Jane Bozarth
6	Knowledge Management	Cultivating Communities of Practice	Etienne Wegner, et al.
7	Knowledge Management/Workplace learning/Innovation/Business	Collaboration	Morten Hansen
8	Design/Presentation	Presentation Zen	Garr Reynolds
9	Training/Performance Management/HPT	First Things Fast	Allison Rossett
10	Design/Communication/Business/Presentation	The Back of the Napkin	Dan Roam
11	Communication/Presentation/Business	Made to Stick	Dan and Chip Heath
12	Change management/Communication/Self management/Innovation	Switch	Dan and Chip Heath
13	Self management/Change/innovation	Linchpin (audio book)	Seth Godin
14	Management/Innovation/21st C thinking	The Future of Management	Gary Hamel
15	Marketing/Communication/Innovation/	The Cluetrain Manifesto
16	Motivation/Change management/Innovation/Performance Management	Drive	Daniel Pink
17	Philosophy/Psychology	Flow	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
18	Philosophy/Education/Motivation	The Element	Sir Ken Robinson
19	Philosophy/Psychology/Science	A Brief History of Everything	Ken Wilber
20	Web 2.0/SoMe/Collaboration/Workplace learning	Enterprise 2.0	Andrew McAfee
21	Collaboration	The Wisdom of Crowds	James Surowiecki
22	Innovation/Management/Creativity	The Blue Ocean Strategy	W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
23	Creativity/Psychology	Five Minds for the Future	Howard Gardner
24	Creativity/Thinking/Mind Maps	Mind Maps at Work	Tony Buzan
25	Network/Web 2.0	Here Comes Everybody	Clay Shirky
26	Network/Web 2.0	Cognitive Surplus	Clay Shirky
27	Economics/Innovation	The Black Swan	Nassim Taleb

 

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