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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It MeansLinked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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A great overview of network theory and self-organizing systems
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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Thin slicing, sliced thin...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
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Good Book, but needs Freakanomics as a companion
The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the SolutionThe Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution by Donald A. Norman
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One day everything will be computerized.
The Wisdom of CrowdsThe Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
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Great book about the power of groups to make decisions...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
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Great counter-point to the Tipping point (correlation is not causality)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tGood to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
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Disciplined thought, disiplined people, Great Company
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
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Definitive theory of disruptive innovation....
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful GrowthThe Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen
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Now you understand the theory, do something about it!
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry ChangeSeeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M. Christensen
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Better than ant third installmenbt by Lucas!
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the SanityThe Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
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Wonder why technology sucks? Alan Cooper explains why...
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market DominanceUnleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance by Larry Downes
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Killer book
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic WorldOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
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This mind blower goes well with Linked and Wisdom of Crowds
The Medium is the MassageThe Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
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In an era of thousands of mediums, this is your guide.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell
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An Application Programming Interface for the Human Psyche
Poetics (Penguin Classics)Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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Another Application Programming Interface for the Human Psyche
Making a Good Script GreatMaking a Good Script Great by Linda Seger
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Practical programming guide for the Human Psyche
Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other)Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other) by Cliff Atkinson
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Somday people may use Powerpoint to make movies!
Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie MatewanThinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan by John Sayles
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The Medium is the Message - Movies
In the Beginning...was the Command LineIn the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
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Operating system, what's an operating system?
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainThe New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
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Get your right brain and left brain in sync
The Universe in a NutshellThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen William Hawking
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I bet Tim O'Reilly wishes this was one of his books...