Why It's On My Shelf
This book is useful because it reframes progress as learning rather than delivery. Ries gives CIOs a way to reduce risk before scale by testing assumptions early and cheaply. I come back to this when teams are shipping polished solutions to problems that were never fully validated in the first place.
Innovation & Change
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
The seminal work on why transformation efforts fail and the 8-step process required to lead successful organizational change.
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
A psychological approach to change, focusing on the 'Elephant' (emotions), the 'Rider' (rational mind), and the 'Path' (environment).
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Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
How to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries by focusing on organizational structure over culture.
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