Over the past couple of years, I have been reading books and watching various talks online, so I wanted to share some of the ones I have found most helpful. I am also always looking for good new books to read or talks to watch, so any recommendations are greatly appreciated. 

Books

Startups

Leadership

The Lead Dog has the Best View: Leading Your Project Team to Success

By: Gordon Culp, P.E. and Anne Smith, P.E.

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

By: Daniel Goleman

Harvard Business Review on What Makes a Leader

By: Harvard Business School Press

Harvard Business Review on Leadership in a Changed World

By: Harvard Business School Press

 

The Essence of Leadership: The Four Keys to Leading Successfully

By: Edwin A. Locke

 

Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Markets, Risk, and Economics

Blink

By: Malcolm Gladwell

 

Outliers

By: Malcolm Gladwell

 

The Tipping Point

By: Malcolm Gladwell

 

What the Dog Saw and Other Stories

By: Malcolm Gladwell

The Undercover Economist

By: Tim Harford

Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going

By: Robert L. Heilbroner and Lester Thurow

 Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

Freakonomics

By: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

 Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-And Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Black Swan

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Personal Development

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

By: Ken Robinson

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

By: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.

Talks

Dan Cobley: What Physics Taught Me About Marketing

 

Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong

 

Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation

Rory Sutherland: Life Lessons from an Ad Man

 

Ric Elias: 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed

 

Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity

Alan Kay Shares a Powerful Idea about Ideas

Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms

 

Hillel Cooperman: Legos for Grownups

 

Ron Gutman: The Hidden Power of Smiling