Bookshelf

​An incomplete list of favorite works on identity, beliefs, systems and behavior. Please send any recommendations that come to mind!

Harnessing Complexity by Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank Barrett
Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein
Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein 
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
Mind, Self, and Society by George Herbert Mead
A Dynamic Theory of Personality by Kurt Lewin
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
​Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
​The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
The Predictioneer's Game by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Jonathan Baron​
Judgment Under Uncertainty by Daniel Kahneman
Getting Past No by Willliam Ury
Getting To Yes by Roger Fish
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
​Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer
Choices by Michael D. Resnik
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
​Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Enchiridion by Epictetus
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
The Most Human Human by Brian Christian