January Resource Roundup

If you’re in need of some inspiration and resources to make your work life easier, look no further than this month’s resource roundup. Thanks to the Bureau community, we have recommendations on dozens of books, podcasts, webinar platforms, collaboration tools and more. Maybe you’re looking for someone to help you improve your leadership (life coach, anyone?) or tools to help you manage file versioning and passwords. Whatever your goals or workplace stressors, chances are this list can help.

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Books, Podcasts & YouTube Videos

Books

• The Complete Software Project Manager: Mastering Technology from Planning to Launch and Beyond by Anna P. Murray

• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

• All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works—and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All by Seth Godin

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss and Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin

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

• Digital Dollars and Cents: A Virtual CFO’s Playbook to help Digital Companies Create a Financial Roadmap to Success by Jody Grunden

• Live by Night: A Novel by Dennis Lehane

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don't by Nate Silver

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

• Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work by Colin D. Ellis 

• Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson 

• The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christie Mellor

• Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind by Dan Charnas

• Keep Going by Austin Kleon

• We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang–The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

• Washington's Spymaster: Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge by Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge

• Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson

• Brand Seduction: How Neuroscience Can Help Marketers Build Memorable Brands by Daryl Weber

• The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership by Christina Wodtke

• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

• Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro

Podcasts

• The Bureau Briefing: Bureau of Digital podcast

• Jason Swenk: Why Transparency and Culture are Important to Your Agency’s Success

• Predictable Profits: Matt Weinberg on Scaling a Digital Design & Marketing Agency to a 7-Time Inc 5000 Company…

• Lead to Win: Feeling Overwhelmed? Here's Your Action Plan

YouTube

• Bureau to Go: Quick-hit leadership lessons from the Bureau of Digital

• Mindgrub: 4 Tips for Better Operations Onboarding [Food for Thought]

• Adam Kurzawa of ExpandTheRoom on Purpose-Driven Design

Worth the Read: Articles & Reports

• The Pause Clause: A contract clause to help keep projects from stalling out

• Promethean Research 2020 Economic Outlook

• The Argument for Project Management: A look at the DPM role and why it’s important

• The Love Project: How to create space for yourself through self care

• Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?: Case study on how Big Spaceship scaled its culture

• StartupDigest Reading Lists: Articles curated by topic

• How To Overcome Your Fears, Get Unstuck and Fuel Your Success: How to overcome fear

Knowledge Sharing

Webinar Platforms

• Crowdcast: Simple and powerful Q&As, webinars, live courses and online summits

• GoToWebinar: Webinar and online conference software

• Zoom Video Webinars: Zoom’s webinar solution

Collaboration & Knowledge Management

• Notion: All-in-one workspace to write, plan, collaborate and get organized

• Confluence: Team workspace for knowledge-sharing and collaboration

• TikiWiki: Free, open source Wiki-based CMS

Improving Teams & Leadership

Employee Engagement Tools

• OfficeVibe: Employee engagement software

• Lattice: People performance and engagement software

• 15Five: Continuous performance management software

Life Coaches

• Tom and Traci Barrett, Navigate the Journey

• Dr. Sherry Walling, ZenFounder

Virtual Assistants

• Zirtual: Virtual assistant services for entrepreneurs, professionals and small teams

Improving Efficiency & Productivity

Candidate Screening

• TestDome: Automated online pre-employment skill testing

Password Managers

• 1password: Password manager, digital vault, form filler and secure digital wallet

• LastPass: Password manage and vault app

Version Control & File Sharing

• Aspera on Cloud: Hosted service to send and share files

• Smallpdf: All-in-one easy-to-use online PDF tools

• Sketch with Abstract: Design version control, collaboration and handoff

• Figma: Collaborative interface design tool

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