Books I have read

Updated - Mar 11, 2013
 
Many people have asked me “How many books have you read?”. To all of them, my reply was I don’t know…quite a few. Then I thought maybe I should make a list… so here is the list of books I have read so far -
  1. Only the paranoid survive -Andrew.S.Grove - Recommended
  2. Google Story – David A Vise
  3. In search of excellence – Tom Peters – Recommended
  4. Good to Great – Jim Collins – Recommended
  5. Innovators Dilemma – Clayton Christensen – Recommended
  6. Built to Last - Jim Collins - Recommended
  7. The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman
  8. Imagining India  – Nandan  Nilekani –  Recommended
  9. 10 faces of innovation – Thomas Kelley
  10. Tipping point – Malcolm Gladwell
  11. Long Tail – Chris Anderson
  12. Essential Drucker - Peter Drucker
  13. Mavericks at Work – William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre
  14. Execution – Ram Charan
  15. The difference between God and Larry Ellison – Mike Wilson
  16. iCon – Biography of Steve Jobs – Jeffrey S Young
  17. Nuts! Southwest airlines crazy recipe for success – Kevin and Jackie Friedberg -Recommended
  18. The HP way – David Packard
  19. Shift – Story of Nissan’s revival – Carlos Ghosn
  20. Managing for the future – Peter Drucker
  21. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt
  22. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  23. All Dilbert books by Scott Adams –  Recommended
  24. The leadership pipeline – Ram Charan
  25. First, Break all the rules – Marcus Buckingham
  26. How to influence people and win friends – Dale Carnegie
  27. Re-!magine – Tom Peters – Recommended - Warning - Might be extremely dangerous for your career as the book will inspire you to try to change the way things work at your company :-)
  28. Barbarians At The Gate – Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
  29. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall GoldSmith -Recommended
  30. Succeeding With Agile – Mike Cohn
  31. The Art of Innovation – Tom Kelley
  32. Linchpin – Seth Godin
  33. Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  34. The secrets of Facilitation – Michael Wilkinson
  35. The Power of Simplicity – Jack Trout
  36. The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A Norman – Recommended
  37. The five dysfunctions of a team – Patrick Lencioni – Recommended
  38. Overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team – Patrick Lencioni
  39. Coaching Agile Teams – Lyssa Adkins
  40. Lean Startup – Eric Ries
  41. The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt & David Thomas – Just started…

2 Responses to Books I have read

  1. Shiv
    March 14, 2013 at 2:21 AM

    You read too much of non-fiction. Try fiction once in a while :-)

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  2. sridhar
    April 22, 2013 at 3:37 PM

    Read your blog on Fooled by randomness. Very good analysis with excellent examples. Keep it up. I wonder why you have not tagged as RECOMMENDED in your list of books

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