Increasingly, people ask me about my favorite non-fiction books of all time. The authors with the biggest impact on my life and vision are Gary Hamel+Prahalad, Jared Diamond and Kevin Kelly.
Here we go in random order:
- Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold (2002)
- Out of Control - The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (1993)
- Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (1994)
- Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler (2006)
- Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins (2006)
- The Engaged Customer - Using the New Rules of Internet Direct Marketing for Profitable Customer Relationships by Hans Peter Brondmo (2002)
- The Experience Economy by Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore (1998)
- Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau (2005)
- Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1999)
- Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
Why?
Posted by: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald | Tuesday, 06 February 2007 at 17:17
Good question. Here we go:
Jared Diamond -> amazing breadth of knowledge, innovative, inspiring, learnings for survival of organisms on different levels of analysis
Gary Hamel -> ground breaking strategy (5 forces migration model), visionary, creative, open minded, eternal, broad scope, more complete view on humans and organisations
Howard Rheingold -> top visionary, broad scope, on the edge, scientific, GeoWeb/AR/locative media frontrunner
Kevin Kelly -> visionary, breadth of knowledge, inspiring, putting biology as THE discipline of the 21th century while pushing complexity theory and networks
Joseph Pine II -> great contributions in the fields of marketing and strategy with the focus on experiences and transformation
Joel Garreau -> great visions of Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil and Jaron Lanier, style of writing, creative, inspiring. A great story about transformative powers within individuals
Yochai Benkler -> scientific rigor, completeness, complete guide to web 2.0 and legal issues within digital media
Henry Jenkins -> inspiring, complete, innovative story on old and new media
Hans Peter Brondmo -> visionary, complete, practical and unique story on permission based marketing with quantitative rigor within digital markets (e-mail, SMS, IM, etc.)
Posted by: Yuri van Geest | Tuesday, 06 February 2007 at 17:55
Check out some management books that are satirized at a blog called The Cantankerous Consultant:
http://cantankerousconsultant.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Allen | Saturday, 07 April 2007 at 03:07