My bookshelf...
More than 6 months back, in the September of 2010, I wrote the post: 27 Books for L&D Folks... It's time for part 2 of the post. Since then, I have acquired a Kindle and, very recently, an iPad. Kindle has reshaped my reading dramatically--making it social and part of a larger whole, connecting me to a set of folks similarly impassioned. Reading moved from being solitary to social. I became a part of a worldwide reading club. Somehow, and social psychologists will understand this--the ability to share and connect motivated me to read more, taking me beyond my domain, making me exploratory. I thought I would share my reading list of the last 6 months here...It's a random assortment but each one has expanded my thought-process in some way. Not all are related to learning or the workplace...This time, I came up with a list of 17.- The New Learning Architect by Clive Shepherd
- The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today by Jeanner Meister
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
- The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice) by Jono Bacon
- The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software by Jonathan Rasmusson
- The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence by Verna Allee
- Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
- If You Want To Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott Page
- Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used by Peter Block
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
- The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
- Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement by Ruth Clark
Thanks for sharing your lists. Here are a few others you might enjoy (if you haven't already read)
ReplyDeleteThe Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results
Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart
Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
Hi Dennis,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing these. I haven't read these but now definitely will.