At Re:Think Decision Making in February, I asked participants to offer up some books on decision making. (If you’d like to be one of the first to know when I open up registration for Re:Think Decision making 2016 in Austin, TX , join the list.)
The crowd at the event was, in the words of one participants, the finest crowd you’ll find at a public event. These people are paid to make decisions for a living and want to find every edge they can. So when I asked them what books on decision making they read and recommend, you can bet they had a lot to say.
Here’s the list:
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
By: Chip & Dan Heath
How to Measure Anything
By: Douglas Hubbard
How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
By: Abby Covert
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
By: Cass Sunstein & Reid Hastie
The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation
By: Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
By: Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
By: Jonathan Haidt
Yes or No: The Guide to Better Decisions
By: Spencer Johnson
The Little Book of Talent
By: Daniel Coyle
The Worry Solution: Using Breakthrough Brain Science to Turn Stress and Anxiety into Confidence and Happiness
By: Martin Rossman
Shantaram: A Novel
By: Gregory David Roberts
The Art of Living
By: Epictetus
The Education of a Value Investor
By: Guy Spier
Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation
By: Edward Chancellor
Click: The Art and Science of Getting from Impasse to Insight
By: Eve Grodnitzky
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The Back of the Napkin & How to Solve Problems and Sell Ideas
By: Dan Roan
Crossing to Safety
By: Wallace Stegner
Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
By: Barry Schwartz
Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
By: Gary Klein
The Social Animal
By: David Brooks
The Laws of Simplicity
By: John Maeda
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
By: Richard H. Thaler
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
By: Edwin Lefevre & Roger Lowenstein
This Will Make You Smarter
By: John Brockman
A more Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
By: Warren Berger
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browden
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
By: Oliver Sacks
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
By: Geoffrey Parker
Seeking Wisdom
By: Peter Bevelin
Mastery
By: Rober Greene
Synchronicity: The Innes Path of Leadership
By: Joseph Jaworski
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
By: Erin Meyer
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
By: Mark Buchanan
Family Fortunes
By: Bill Bonner
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By: Robert Cialdini
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
By: Peter D. Kaufman & Charlie T. Munger
The Brain that Changes Itself
By: Norman Doidge
And there you have it — a list of books on decision making that should give you a great starting point.
This piece originally appeared on Farnam Street.
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