Reading

A list of books I've read and ordered under headings that make sense in relation to my work. Particularly for those interested in knowing who has influenced my thinking or to learn about a discipline.

Strategic and Systemic Design


  1. Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Tex Skuthorpe and Karl-Erik Sveiby

  2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  3. Dark Emu: Black Seeds by Bruce Pascoe

  4. Decolonising Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

  5. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

  6. Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffenson

  7. Men's Business, Women's Business: The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World's Oldest Culture by Hannah Rachel Bell

  8. Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

  9. Parecon: Life after Capitalism by Michael Albert

  10. The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism by John P. Clark

  11. Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary by Dan Hill

  12. Recipes for Systemic Change by Brian Boyer

  13. The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future by Geoff Mulgan

  14. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholes Taleb

  15. Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for 21st Century by Yuval Noah Hurari


Organisational Design


  1. Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan

  2. Organise for Complexity: How to get life back into work to build a high performance organisation by Neils Pflaeging

  3. Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux

  4. Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time by Samantha Slade

  5. Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy Edmondson

  6. Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

  7. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal

  8. Getting Our Act Together: How to Harness the Power of Groups by Glen Ochre

  9. Do Improvise: Less Push. More Pause. Better Results. A New Approach to Work by Robert Poynton

  10. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

  11. Creativity Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull

  12. Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock

  13. The 8th Habit and The 3rd Alternative by Stephen R. Covey and The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey


Enterprise Design and Start Ups


  1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

  2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

  3. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

  4. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufmann

  5. The Start Up Playbook by Sam Altman

  6. Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder

  7. The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges by Zaid Hassan

  8. Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact by Jocelyn K. Glei

  9. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt

  10. Wtf?: What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences by Brian Solis


Program/Service/Learning Design


  1. The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions by Miki Kashtan

  2. This is Service Design by Marc Stickdorn

  3. Learning Arch Design: Users Manual by Simon Kavanagh

  4. The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

  5. Think Wrong by John Bielenberg

  6. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin Seligman

  7. New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World by Jeremy Hiemans

  8. Legible Practice by Brian Boyer

  9. The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by Jon Hagel

  10. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier


Self/Social Understanding (Innerwork)


  1. Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity and Leaders as Martial Artist by Arnold Mindel

  2. The Way of the Owl: Succeeding with Integrity in a Conflicted World by Frank Rivers

  3. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

  4. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin

  5. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer

  6. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion and Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

  7. How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry

  8. The Freedom Paradox: Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton

  9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

  10. The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander


Other Great Books


  1. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

  2. Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

  3. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler

  4. How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff

  5. How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield

  6. Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton

  7. The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton

  8. Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Dennis

  9. I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  10. Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future by Larissa Behrendt

  11. Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Ben Lorr

  12. The Course of Love, Art of Travel, and Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

  13. The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin

  14. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath

  15. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

  16. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

  17. What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul


Non-Fiction


  1. The Yield by Tara June Winch

  2. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

  3. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

  4. A Very Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells

  5. Utopia by Thomas Moore

  6. The Seven Stages of Grieving by Wesley Enoch

  7. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  9. Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida edited by Robert Chandler

  10. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch



Next to Read


  1. Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development by Miriam Jorgensen

  2. The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge

  3. Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values by Hirini Moko Mead

  4. A Path Made by Walking: Process Work in Practice by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones

  5. Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin