Lars Kirste

Willink, Babin

Extreme Ownership · No excuses, full ownership: a core foundation for a healthy leadership culture.

Gerstner

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? · A must-read for any IBMer. Core theme is about how to create change and urgency in a large enterprise.

Voss

Never Split the Difference · The art of negotiation rather than the tidy theoretical school of thought. Read about both to get the full toolbox.

Klaff

Pitch Anything · A fresh approach to pitching and winning deals.

Kim et al.

The Phoenix Project · A software transformation disguised as a crime novel, taught Mr. Miyagi style. A page-turner with lots of good lessons.

Kim et al.

The DevOps Handbook · The "how to" companion to The Phoenix Project.

Cagan

Inspired · Packed with lessons on building products and product teams, focussing on solving customer needs.

Zuckerman

The Man Who Solved the Market · A fascinating story about the GOAT of investing.

Lewis

Moneyball · Applying data science to baseball, made famous by Brad Pitt as a movie. The book is naturally more comprehensive and recommended for anyone interested in analytics and data science.

Lewis

Liar's Poker · A brilliantly written, entertaining look inside Wall Street in the 1980s.

Lewis

The Big Short · A front-row seat to the 2008 financial crisis.

Lewis

Flash Boys · How parts of the investment game were (and are) rigged by high-frequency traders, uncovered piece by piece. Brilliantly told.

Lewis

Going Infinite · A fascinating, in-depth portrait of SBF and the madness around FTX and Alameda Research.

Burrough, Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate · A must-read. The greed and sheer craziness of the RJR Nabisco deal.

Manson

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck · Gentle, sensible thinking about mental health, without self-help preachiness.

Goggins

Can't Hurt Me · Pure no-excuses motivation. Goggins is such a character! This book will pull you out of any motivational slump.

Colvin

Talent Is Overrated · Deliberate practice, and "proof" that if you put your mind to it, you can get very good at almost anything.

Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein · Useful memory techniques, and a great story showing that practice, not savant talent, drives extraordinary memory.

García Martínez

Chaos Monkeys · An entertaining startup story, and a look inside Facebook during high growth.

McConaughey

Greenlights · You either love or hate this book. It's a guide to life that's funny, feel-good and surprisingly moving.

Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential · Bourdain at his rock-star best. Read it with a glass of wine on a plane to somewhere new.

Troost

The Sex Lives of Cannibals · One of the funniest books I've ever read. Perfect vacation reading.

Troost

Getting Stoned with Savages · Every bit as funny as The Sex Lives of Cannibals, this time in Vanuatu and Fiji.

Adelstein

Tokyo Vice · A crime noir meets Lost in Translation. For anyone who has been to "the real Japan" this will bring you back.

Bonella

Snowing in Bali · A dark and entertaining picture of cocaine trafficking in Southeast Asia. Read it on a trip to Bali, which made the madness and horror of the drug trade feel uncomfortably close.