Jim Young's Recommended Reading List
Some highly recommended books, listed in no particular order

April 8, 2002

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Those who don’t read good books have no advantage over those who can’t.

—Mark Twain

Use Both Sides of Your Brain by Tony Buzan Review
Use Your Perfect Memory by Tony Buzan Review
Speed Reading by Tony Buzan Review
Get Ahead by Tony Buzan & Vanda North Review
You Don’t Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted by Ann McGee-Cooper Review
A Whack On the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech Review
A Kick in the Seat of the Pants by Roger von Oech Review
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono Review
Six Action Shoes by Edward de Bono Review
Serious Creativity by Edward de Bono   
Creative Whack Pack (card deck) by Roger von Oech Review
The Creative Edge by William C. Miller   
Future Edge by Joel Barker   
Customers for Life by Carl Sewell Review
Creativity in Business by Michael Ray & Rochelle Myers   
Ackoff’s Fables by Russell L. Ackoff   
The Art of Problem Solving by Russell L. Ackoff   
The Design of Everyday Things
formerly The Psychology of Everyday Things
by Don Norman   
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis   
The Rise of the Expert Company by Edward Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck & H. Penny Nii   
2020 Visions by Richard Carlson & Bruce Goldman   
Information Anxiety by Richard Saul Wurman   
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz   
The Secrets Of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg   
Leadership Jazz by Max De Pree   
Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree   
The Adventure of Leadership by Hap Klopp with Brian Tracy   
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge   
The Media Lab by Stewart Brand   
Liberation Management by Tom Peters   
Don’t Know Much About Geography by Kenneth C. Davis   
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore   
Selling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki   
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey   
Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence M. Miller   
The White Hole in Time (First 100 pages) by Peter Russell   
How the World Was One by Arthur C. Clarke   
Breakpoint and Beyond by George Land & Beth Jarman   
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn   
Hindsights by Guy Kawasaki   
Global Paradox by John Naisbitt   
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel M. Tichy & Stratford Sherman   
The Monster Under the Bed by Stan Davis & Jim Botkin   
Pure Instinct by Kathy Kolbe   
The Tom Peters Seminar by Tom Peters   
The Pursuit of Wow! by Tom Peters   
Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte   
The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan Review
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge (Editor)   
Managing to Have Fun by Matt Weinstein   
Thinking for a Change by Michael J. Gelb   
Turned On by Roger Dow & Susan Cook   Review
The Corporate Mystic by Gay Hendricks & Kate Ludeman   
Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Beiderman   
What Will Be by Michael Dertouzos   
The Pinball Effect by James Burke   
The 500 Year Delta by Jim Taylor & Watts Wacker Review
We Are All Self-Employed by Cliff Hakim Review
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie Review
Probable Tomorrows by Marvin Cetron & Owen Davies Review
Casey’s Law by Al Casey Review
High Flyers by Morgan McColl   
The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters  Review
Blur by Christopher Meyer & Stan Davis   
Unleashing the Killer App by Larry Downes & Chunka Mui  Review 
Rules for Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki Review
New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly Review
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman Review
Now or Never by Mary Modahl   
Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel  
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander  
Lessons From the Future by Stan Davis Review
Next by Michael Lewis Review
The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman Review
The Unfinished Revolution by Michael Dertouzos Review
As the Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez Review

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