New(ish) Books
Ten New Professionally Relevant Nonfiction Books
Business and life lessons in peculiar places
It delights me when a nonfiction book I read for pleasure and not work unexpectedly provides professional insights. It’s a double whammy.
Sure, I can learn the lingua franca of technology management by reading business bestsellers like Good to Great (Hedgehog concept) or The Lean Startup (Build-Measure-Learn-Pivot concept). Often, however, books not classified as “business” yield the sweetest and rarest inspirational nuggets.
I chose each nonfiction book on the following list, ordered from newest to oldest, not only because they’re great reads but also because of the professionally meaningful insights I reaped from them. In this sense, it’s a personal list and it won’t resonate equally with everyone. Furthermore, the topics of these books are specific to my interests — Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Supply Chain, Baseball, Politics, History — and don’t hold universal appeal. Instead of providing book reviews, I provide a brief overview of each and explain why I find them professionally important.
