June Resource Roundup

It's the perfect time to crack open a new book, commit to the five-hour rule or block out some dedicated time for a Think Week/end/day. Thanks to Bureau alumni, we have a great list of resources to share, with an assortment of books, podcasts and tools. Have something to add? Post a comment, and get your recommendations in the mix.

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Business Strategy

• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers

• Blind Spot: Illuminating the Hidden Value in Business by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff and Sean Sauber

• Creative Strategy and the Business of Design by Douglas Davis

• Hiring for Sales: Fuzzy Math and Four Letter Words… by Joe Rinaldi

• Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum

• Service Design: From Insight to Implementation by Andy Polaine, Ben Reason & Lavrans Løvlie

• The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability by Keith Granet

• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

• How to communicate value:

  • Jonathan Stark: Ditching Hourly

  • 2bobs: Blair Enns & David C. Baker

  • Cost of Delay

• Signal: Unleashing the Power of CX

• Lean Canvas (business model hypotheses testing tool)

Data & Business Intelligence

• Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight by John W. Foreman

• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard

• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall

• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doer

• Quality Improvement Hub: Measurement Improvement Journey Process

• Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results by Christina Wodtke

• Signal: A Fresh Take on Data Visualization by Jim Ellis

• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres

• Analytics and BI Dashboards:

  • Keen IO

  • Power BI

  • Grow

  • Databox

Innovation & Creativity

• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman

• Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas and Design Effective Solutions by Bruce Hanington and Bella Martin

UX & Design

• Conversational Design by Erika Hall

• Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable by Nathan Shedroff

• Design for Real Life by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer

• Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy by Jeff Sussna

• Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter

• Design Leadership Handbook by Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

• Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience and Brand Value by Thomas Lockwood

• Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique by Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry

• Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

• Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams by Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner

• Practical Design Discovery by Dan Brown

• Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand

• Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures by Victor Lombardi

• DesignBetter.co Podcast

• Clever Podcast

• mgmt.design

• DesignBetter.co: The DesignOps Handbook

• InVision: Why Design Operations Could Save Your Designers

Culture, Leadership & Teams

• Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives by Anese Cavanaugh

• Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think by Dave Gray

• Leading Change: An Anthology of Organizational Design Essay by Bud Caddell

• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord

• Practical Empathy for Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work by Indi Young

• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott

• Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan

• Team Tempo by NOBL Collective

• The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success by Keith Granet

• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

• Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design by Lisa Welchman

• Hiring Resources:

  • CATS (applicant tracking system)

  • Hubstaff Talent (freelancers and remote workers)

  • Workable (applicant tracking system)

Project & Time Management

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

• Meeting Design for Managers, Makers and Everyone by Kevin M. Hoffman

• Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done by Brett Harned

• Gmail Early Adopter Program (EAP) (productivity tools and apps)

• Notion (company-wide wiki)

Additional Resources

• Chrome's Autoplay Policies Update

• Advantage (agency software)

• Accenture

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