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Either The New Economics or Out of the Crisis or both, by Deming. I could recommend twenty more books that I think are essential to be a good leader (in variou

by kqr 5y ago

Either The New Economics or Out of the Crisis or both, by Deming. I could recommend twenty more books that I think are essential to be a good leader (in various areas like ownership, communication, continuous improvement, planning, innovation, anthropology, visual control, calibrated estimation, etc.), but Deming stands way above everything else.

angrais 5y ago
Well ... Go on then! What are the other 20 that you recommend, sorted by your personal favourites?
- bckr 5y ago
  Yep, I'd love to get the full list too.
  - kqr 5y ago
    I did manage to write up a list in a response to the grandparent comment.
- kqr 5y ago
  Some authors take multiple books to fully flesh out the ideas outlined in the first, so there are some doubles recommended here. I also found it impossible to rank books, so instead I took roughly the top 20, grouped them into themes, and then ranked the themes based on how important I think they are. 1. Deming is the primary writer of the type of management we need to be competitive: Deming, The New Economics & Out of the Crisis. 2. There is a wide variety of ways for humans to organise. Nobody is forcing the default capitalist bureaucracy on you, so be creative: Graeber, Bullshit Jobs & Dawn of Everything & The Democracy Project. 3. How people are motivated: Pink, Drive. 4. How to create a high-trust, less authoritarian, open, collaborative environment within a traditional hierarchy: Marquet, Leadership is Language. 5. Communication: Voss, Never Split the Difference. Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen. 6. How to help organisations who don't want to admit what their problem is: Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting. 7. How to structure organisations and processes to deliver maximum value: Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow. Ward, Lean Product and Process Development. Womack, Machine That Changed the World. 8. How to innovate cheaply: Westrum, Sidewinder. 9. How to estimate things properly: Hubbard, How to Measure Anything. Tetlock, Superforecasting. Savage, The Flaw of Averages. 10. How to train people to be experts at things: Hoffman, Accelerated Learning. 11. How people fail at decisions: Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow & Noise. I had to leave out a few about statistics, causality inference, project portfolio investment that didn't make the top 20 cut.
  - bckr 5y ago
    love it! I've got some audible to listen to :) thanks

by kqr 5y ago

angrais 5y ago

Well ... Go on then! What are the other 20 that you recommend, sorted by your personal favourites?

bckr 5y ago
Yep, I'd love to get the full list too.
- kqr 5y ago
  I did manage to write up a list in a response to the grandparent comment.
kqr 5y ago
Some authors take multiple books to fully flesh out the ideas outlined in the first, so there are some doubles recommended here. I also found it impossible to rank books, so instead I took roughly the top 20, grouped them into themes, and then ranked the themes based on how important I think they are. 1. Deming is the primary writer of the type of management we need to be competitive: Deming, The New Economics & Out of the Crisis. 2. There is a wide variety of ways for humans to organise. Nobody is forcing the default capitalist bureaucracy on you, so be creative: Graeber, Bullshit Jobs & Dawn of Everything & The Democracy Project. 3. How people are motivated: Pink, Drive. 4. How to create a high-trust, less authoritarian, open, collaborative environment within a traditional hierarchy: Marquet, Leadership is Language. 5. Communication: Voss, Never Split the Difference. Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen. 6. How to help organisations who don't want to admit what their problem is: Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting. 7. How to structure organisations and processes to deliver maximum value: Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow. Ward, Lean Product and Process Development. Womack, Machine That Changed the World. 8. How to innovate cheaply: Westrum, Sidewinder. 9. How to estimate things properly: Hubbard, How to Measure Anything. Tetlock, Superforecasting. Savage, The Flaw of Averages. 10. How to train people to be experts at things: Hoffman, Accelerated Learning. 11. How people fail at decisions: Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow & Noise. I had to leave out a few about statistics, causality inference, project portfolio investment that didn't make the top 20 cut.
- bckr 5y ago
  love it! I've got some audible to listen to :) thanks