Unicorns Over Rainbows: Resources

Recommended Books

Over the years, I have read countless business books that have had a significant impact on my professional growth. These books have enlightened me on various business concepts and strategies that I have successfully implemented in my career. Here are some of the most influential business books that have helped me succeed in my business endeavours.

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Tools

Below is a list of thinking tools, ideas and frameworks. I have linked to explanations where I can.

• Agreeability and disagreeability Malcolm Glawell’s twelve rules for life - Season 3 EP 7 - Revisionist History

• Cost of Delay - From Scale Agile Framework and Don Reinerston

• Crucial conversations (Book & Course)

• Delegation model - Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) - Economic decision making & Cost of Delay

• Human centred design

• The Decision Tree - from Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott

• Working Genius - Widget - Patrick Lencioni

• 12 Cognitive Biases

• Above and below the line

• See Be Do Get

• Confidence determines speed vs quality

• Correlation vs. Causation

• Disintegrate to reintegrate at a higher level - Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration

• Elephant thinking

• Start with Who - Jim Collins

• https://untools.co/

• The Johari window

• The Map is Not the Territory

• Circle of Competence

• First Principles Thinking

• Thought Experiment

• Second-Order Thinking

• Probabilistic Thinking

• Inversion

• Occam’s Razor

• Hanlon’s Razor

• A.B.I.D.E - Attraction, Barriers , Identity/roles , Diversity/dissent, Environment

• Agile and Lean

• Cynefin

• Love languages

• Quantification, adrenaline & sophistication biases - Why your CEO doesn't get it - table group podcast

• Scaling up

• Second order consequences - looking beyond the immediate consequence to the follow on consequences

• Self leadership and 1 minute manager, Ken Blanchard

• Sensemaking - more stories like this less like that

• Strengths finder (Clifton)

• Systems thinking - Optimizing a part of a system doesnt necessarily optimize the whole

• Worldblu principles and badges

• Be the hero

• Never let a good crisis go to waste