I'd recommend all of the following books. If the title is underlined, click on it to read notes on the book. (Index of book notes also listed on the right.)
Notes are based on personal mind maps that aim to summarise the book onto a single page. They are not intended to replace reading the actual book, and they are not intended to serve as a review (review is simple - they'd all get 5 stars on Amazon's rating system...)
| Link | Description |
| Crossing the Chasm | By Geoffrey A. Moore: explaining what you need to do to cross the gap between early adopters and mainstrean markets. |
| Smart Mobs: The next social revolution | By Howard Rheingold: Looking at how the age of instant access to information and communication is transforming culture and communities |
| The Social Life of Information | By John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid: The industrial revolution didn't lead to 'atom overload', so why do we perceive information this way? |
| On Intelligence | By Jeff Hawkins: "How a new understanding of the brain will lead to the creation of truly intelligent machines." Book note to be written... |
| Linked: The new science of networks | By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi: "How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for science, business and everyday life." Book note to be written... |
| The Cluetrain Manifesto | "What if the real power of the Web lay not in the technology behind it, but in the profound changes it brings to the way people interact with business?" |
| Small Pieces Loosely Joined | By David Weinberger: "Imagine what would have happened if we had deliberately set about building the web... We would have planned it, budgeted for it, project managed it... and we would have failed miserably." |
| The Change Monster | By Jeanie Daniel Duck: Understand the human forces that fuel or foil corporate transformation and change... |
| Good to Great | By Jim Collins: How do you make the leap from good to great? Simple. It just takes Discipline: Disciplined People; Disciplined Thought; Disciplined Action. |
| The Tyranny of Numbers | By David Boyle: "You don't make sheep any fatter by weighing them" - old Scottish proverb, 9 words, 2 verbs, 13 vowels. It's important to know when the numbers don't count. |
| Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain | By Betty Edwards. This book proves that drawing is not a natural talent, it is a skill that anybody can learn. Read blog note. |