Here’s what I plan to read this year. As always, I have a focus on learning more about leadership, as well as becoming a better person. I want to learn more about economics and sustainability, as well as about nature and ecology (following on the great books I read on this topic last year).
The challenge for myself this year that isn’t listed is that I want to draw on more diverse sources and go into more detail. Sources like journals, magazines, documentaries, and not solely limit myself to books. I also want to challenge myself to get closer to the source, so complementing books that may cover a topic at a high level with some of the source material, referenced articles and the like.
Leadership
- Reboot
- Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
- This is Service Design Thinking
- Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders
- Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
- Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World
Economics, Environment, etc
- Powering Canada
- The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows
- The Necessary Revolution
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics
- The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
- The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
- Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
- More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
- Understanding Institutional Diversity
Being a better person
- The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Mastery
- On Dialogue
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
- Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
- Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
- Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Nature
- Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic
- Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
- Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
- A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
- The Nature of Canada
