Great Business/Life Books

Here is a list I’ve saw in the past and I thought it would be great to put it in the ‘air’ and gain more feedback on what you wish to see in a ‘must read’ book list that will open your mind to new ideas (and hopefully improve you in business life).
Please feel free to add stuff in the comments.

• Good To Great by Jim Collins
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Talab
• The Black swan by Talab
• Getting More by Stuart Diamond
• Rework by 37 signals founders
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
• Malcolam Gladwell: The Tipping point, Blink, Outliers, What the dog saw
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Predictable Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
• Small Giants by Bo Birlingham.
• Stumbling on happiness by Daniel Gilbert.
  He also have a very good TED talk
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoff Moore
• Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Getting things done by  David Allen
• The Silent language of leaders
• Thank you for Arguing
• How to Speak like a CEO
• Content Rules
• Writing that works
• Crucial conversations
• First, break all the rules
• Imagine : How creativity works
• Truth about being a leader
• Confessions of a Public Speaker
• Team Geek
• Don’t Make Me Think

I had this list of “must read books” from one of the conferences I’ve attended back in 2010. There are some good ones over there as well. However, it covers more technical books for developers and less business books. Don’t forget “There is creative reading as well as creative writing”.

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2010 Overall It Was A Good Running/Reading Year

Good running year

I had lots of time during the long run to do lots of things: listen to books, thinking and analyzing problems. Here are few tasks I’ve been able to accomplished during 2010 runs:

1. Listen to great audio books like (the best are in bold):
   • Predictable Irrational
   • Freakonomics
   • Stumbling on happiness
   • Nissim Taleb:  The black swan and Fool by randomness.
   • Stieg Larsson: The girl who… (all the three books).
   • The warren buffet way.
   • Malcolam Gladwell: The Tipping point, Blink, Outliers, What the dog saw.
   • Lost Symbol
   • David Baldacci: Deliver us from evil, first family
     hell’s corner, saving faith, stone cold, the camel club, the while truth and Divine justice
   • Harlen Coban: Back Spin, Caught, Swimsuit, TA, The Christmas train and Wish you well.
   • Thomas Friedman: Languidness and attitude and The World Is Flat – Globalization
   • Unleashing The Idea virus (you can skip this one… wasn’t worth the time).
2. I’ve meet a lots of amazing people on and off the trails.
3. I’ve been lucky to be in nature for long period of time.
   Both in summer (Colorado back country) and winter (Colorado – off pistes like: Vail snowboarding).
4. I did some cool races: Tel Aviv Maraton (so hot you can’t imagine) and the Bay Trail Marathon (so much rain it’s not funny).
5. I wish 2011 will bring in more of #1 #2 and of course #3 and #4 🙂

Happy New Year to you and yours!!!