Thomas R. Stegelmann
I love technology.
Reading
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
- Charles William Eliot
My current Book
- Discover Your True North
- George, Bill
My Recommendations
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- Donella H. Meadows
- Wealth of Nations
- Adam Smith
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Huff
My Library
- Animation 1: Learn to Animate Cartoons Step by Step (Cartooning)
- Preston Blair
- The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
- Dan Roam
- Bad Science
- Ben Goldacre
- The 80/20 Principle
- Richard Koch
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream and Dessert Book
- Ben R. Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
- Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
- John Medina
- The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It
- Peter Stringham
- Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
- Debbie Millman
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
- John Brooks
- Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
- Richard Branson
- Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
- Bob Lutz
- The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
- Atul Gawande
- Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
- Steven F. Hayward
- Competitive Strategy
- Michael Porter
- Confessions of a Public Speaker
- Scott Berkun
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
- Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler
- 10 Days to Faster Reading
- Abby Marks-Beale
- Democratizing Innovation
- Eric von Hippel
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Don Norman
- Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules
- Jeff Johnson
- Discover Your True North
- George, Bill
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Daniel H. Pink
- Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
- Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
- The Elements of Style
- William, Jr. Strunk, E. B. White
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- Robert Bringhurst
- The End of Fashion: The Mass Marketing of the Clothing Business Forever
- Teri Agins
- The Essential Drucker
- Peter Drucker
- The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
- Michael D. Watkins
- Getting Started with Arduino (Make: Projects)
- Massimo Banzi
- Getting Things Done
- David Allen
- Good Calories, Bad Calories
- Gary Taubes
- Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't... An Executive Summary and Critique
- Michael Collins
- Harvard Business Review on Customer Relationship Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
- C. K. Prahalad, Jon R. Katzenbach, Patrica B. Ramaswamy et al.
- Harvard Business Review on Effective Communication (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
- Harvard Business School Press
- Harvard Business Review on Brand Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
- Harvard Business School Press
- Harvard Business Review Guide to Better Business Writing
- Harvard Business Review
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter)
- Harvard Business Review
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (with featured article Leadership That Gets Results, by Daniel Goleman)
- Daniel Goleman, W. Chan Kim, Jon R. Katzenbach, Renee Mauborgne
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)
- Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman
- The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
- Eric Greitens
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Huff
- How to Speak and Write Correctly
- Joseph Devlin
- Hypercompetitive Rivalries: Competing in Highly Dynamic Environments
- Richard A. D'aveni
- If You Want to Write
- Brenda Ueland
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Robert B. Cialdini
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
- Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Peter Drucker
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
- Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
- Clayton M. Christensen, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen
- INSIDE GROUPON: The Truth About The World's Most Controversial Company
- Business Insider, Nicholas Carlson
- Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
- Mark Goulston M.D.
- Kellogg on Branding: The Marketing Faculty of The Kellogg School of Management
- Tim Calkins
- Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions
- Tim Ash
- Leading Change
- John P. Kotter
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Eric Ries
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
- Jeff Gothelf
- Learn Ruby on Rails
- Daniel Kehoe
- Lessons of a Brand Manager
- Michael F. Golden
- Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
- Pamela Meyer
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever
- Marie Kondo
- Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
- Peter Sims
- Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Voices That Matter)
- David Airey
- Made to Stick
- Chip and Dan Heath
- Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (FT Press Science)
- Samuel Barondes
- Making Things Happen
- Scott Berkun
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Viktor E. Frankl
- The New Rules: Eight Business Breakthroughs to Career Success in the 21st Century
- John P. Kotter
- On Writing
- Stephen King
- On Writing Well
- William Zinsser
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
- Richard L. Brandt
- Only the Paranoid Survive
- Andrew Grove
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Phonegap Beginner's Guide
- Andrew Lunny
- Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (FT Press Science)
- Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald
- The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty
- Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
- Charles Duhigg
- Power of Less
- Leo Babauta
- The Power of Scrum
- Jeff Sutherland, Rini van Solingen, Eelco Rustenberg
- A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
- Donna Spencer
- Predictably Irrational, Revised Intl: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Dan Ariely
- Presentation Zen
- Garr Reynolds
- Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition
- Jerry Weissman
- The Prince
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making (Voices That Matter)
- Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
- Save the Cat
- Blake Snyder
- Seeing What’s Next
- Clayton M. Christensen et al
- A Sense of Urgency
- John P. Kotter
- Show Me The Numbers
- Stephen Few
- Steve Jobs
- Walter Isaacson
- Story Engineering
- Larry Brooks
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Strategies for Success in Retail (Collection) (FT Press Delivers Collections)
- Jagmohan John Raju, Herb Sorensen, Z. John Zhang, Rick DeHerder, Dick Blatt
- Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH (Spike's Guide to Success)
- Richard St John
- Rework
- Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- Donella H. Meadows
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Daniel Kahneman
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Jon Meacham
- To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others
- Daniel H Pink
- The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
- Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom
- The Truth About What Customers Want
- Michael R. Solomon
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
- Scott Mccloud
- Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions
- Martin, Bella
- Universal Principles of Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Reference: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Desin
- William Lidwell, et al
- Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, 3rd ed.
- Jacek Artymiak
- Wealth of Nations
- Adam Smith
- Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping
- Paco Underhill
- Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
- John Wooden
- Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure
- James Scott Bell
- You Should Test That: Conversion Optimization for More Leads, Sales and Profit or The Art and Science of Optimized Marketing
- Chris Goward
- Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
- David Rock