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2023
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - adrienne maree brown (did not finish, book club)
- Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play - James C. Scott
- Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at work - Gary Lloyd (book club)
2022
- Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility - Jonathan Smart with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohre
- The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work & Life - Paul Millerd
- Sociocratie 3.0: De businessnovelle die het beste uit mens en organisatie haalt - Jef Cumps
- The Utopia Of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy - David Graeber
- The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe - Matthew Gabriele & David M Perry
- The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) - Gretchen Rubin
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction - Colin Ward
- Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen’s Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye - Brad Warner
- Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows - Jason Fox
- De zeven vinkjes: Hoe mannen zoals ik de baas spelen - Joris Luyendijk
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
- Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer: Educate, Influence, and Entertain Your Readers - Johanna Rothman
- Punk Rock Entrepeneur: Running a Business without Losing your Values - Caroline Moore
- The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander - Pete Blaber
- Agile Software Development Ecosystems - Jim Highsmith
2021
- Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3 - Johanna Rothman
- Roundtable on Project Management: A Shape Forum Dialogue - James Bullock, Marie Benesh, Jerry Weinberg
- Queen of the Desert, The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Georgina Howell
- Tegen verkiezingen - David van Reybrouck
- Kitchen Confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
- Agile Conversations, Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture - Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick
- The Freedom the be Free - Hannah Arendt
- My Share of the Task - Stanley McChrystal
- Agile Impressions - Jerry Weinberg (reread)
- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach - Jerry Weinberg (reread, book club)
- Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing - John Mason
- Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement - Nelson P. Repenning, John D. Sterman (reread, book club)
- Resilient Management - Lara Hogan (book club)
- Agile Software Development - Alistair Cockburn
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (book club)
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters - Priya Parker
- The agile comms handbook: How to clearly, creatively work in the open - Giles Turnbull
- How Design Makes the World - Scott Berkun
2020
- Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less - Greg McKeown
- Good strategy, Bad strategy: The difference and why it matters - Richard Rumelt
- How to think like a Roman emperor: The Stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius - Donald Robertson
- Leadership strategy and tactics: Field manual - Jocko Willink
- No more feedback: Cultivate consciousness at work - Carol Sanford
- Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1 - Johanna Rothman
- The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off, Why things that go right sometimes go wrong - Erik Hollnagel
- Let my people go surfing: The education of a reluctant business man (including 10 more years of business unusual) - Yvon Chouinard
- Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan - Sean Parnell, John R. Bruning
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Kom hier dat ik u kus - Griet Op de Beeck
- Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2 - Johanna Rothman
- The answer to how is yes: Acting on what matters - Peter Block
- How to take smart notes: One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking - Sönke Ahrens
- Orbiting the giant hairball: A corporate fool’s guide to surviving with grace - Gordon MacKenzie
- Software Estimation Without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World - George Dinwiddie
- And the weak suffer whay they must?: Europe’s crisis and America’s economic future - Yanis Varoufakis
- Influencing Patterns for Change: A Human Systems Dynamics Primer for Leaders - Royce Holladay, Kristine Quade
- Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present - Yanis Varoufakis
- Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business - Patrick Lencioni
- The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes - Carol Sanford
2019
- Host: Six new roles of engagement for teams, organizations, communities, movements - Mark McKergow & Helen Bailey
- Thinking in systems - Donella H. Meadows
- How to read Wittgenstein - Ray Monk
- An elegant puzzle: Systems of engineering management - Will Larson
- The captain class: A new theory of leadership - Sam Walker
- Continuous delivery: Reliable software releases through build, test and deployment automation - Jez Humble, David Farley
- Rise of the machines: The lost history of cybernetics - Thomas Rid
- This is Lean: Resolving the efficiency paradox - Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström
- Implementing Lean software development: from concept to cash - Mary and Tom Poppendieck
- Extreme ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin (reread)
- About face: The odyssey of an American warrior - Col David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman
- 7 rules for positive, productive change: Micro shifts, macro results - Esther Derby