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ACCDE10 Survey: The One Book
During the last few hours of the Agile Coach Camp 2010 in Germany I started to do a spontaneous survey with one simple question: “Which ONE book should I read?”
People’s reactions were quite different. Some mentioned a book within a few seconds, others needed time to think of the most recommendable book. The question even triggered something in a handful of people so they started to brain dump a list of books. Several people hesitated and wanted to know about the context–should it be a technical book or a novel or related to a special topic? I just didn’t care. The goal was just to name the one book everybody should read.
Have fun browsing the list of recommended books. Try following experiment if you want: take a look at the list but completely ignore the people who recommended the books. Choose the book which sounds most interesting to you. Now take another look at the list and take the recommending people into account. Which book would you choose now? Why? Think about your decision process and how it is related to coaching, leadership, and rock stars. Self-reflect on this and add your thoughts to the comment of this post if you want.
So here are the survey’s results in order of their appearance.
- Paulo Coelho – The Alchemistย (recommended by Mike Sutton)
- Guy Kawasaki – The Art of the Startย (recommended byย Claudius Link)
- Mary and Tom Poppendieck – Leading Lean Software Developmentย (recommended byย Sebastian Eichner)
- Julia Cameron – The Artist’s Wayย / Der Weg des Kรผnstlersย (recommended byย Christine Neidhardt)
- Lobsang Rampa – Third Eyeย / Das dritte Augeย (recommended byย Andreas Leidig)
- Alan Alexander Milne – Winnie the Pooh / Pu der Bรคrย (recommended byย Juliane “Jule” Conradt)
- Mike Cohn – Agile Estimating and Planningย (recommended byย Florian Eisenberg)
- John Medina – Brain Rulesย (recommended byย Olaf Lewitz)
- Neal Stephenson – Snow Crashย (recommended byย Joseph Pelrine, who started to dump at least 5 books within a few seconds, but this one was his first choice)
- Mike Cohn – Succeeding with Agileย (recommended byย Simon Roberts andย Krishan Mathis)
- Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander – The Art of Possibilityย (recommended byย Heiko Stapf)
- Linda Rising – Fearless Changeย (recommended byย Kai Beck)
- Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez – One Hundred Years of Solitudeย / Hundert Jahre Einsamkeitย (recommended byย Angelika Drach)
- Michael Ende – The Neverending Storyย / Die unendliche Geschichteย (recommended byย Klaus Schenck)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swanย (recommended byย Michael Podvinec)
- Seth Godin – Tribesย (recommended byย William Gill)
- Insa Sparrer und Matthias Varga von Kibed – Ganz im Gegenteilย (recommended byย Pierluigi Pugliese)
- John le Carrรฉ – The Little Drummer Girlย / Die Libelleย (recommended byย Nicole Rauch)
- Jeswald W. Salacuse – The Wise Advisorย (recommended byย Pierre Neis)
- Rachel Davies – Agile Coachingย (recommended byย Grazyna Scherer)
- Robert C. Martin – Clean Codeย (recommended byย Stefan “Steff” Huber)
- The Holy Bible / Die Bibelย (recommended byย Jรผrgen “Mentos” Hoffmann)
- Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explainedย (recommended byย Christiane Philipps, who actually put two books on the list with this recommendation–it’s up to you to find the other one)
- Harry Mulisch – The Discovery of Heavenย / Die Entdeckung des Himmelsย (recommended byย Swen Gonsberg)
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt – The Goalย / Das Zielย (recommended byย Josef Scherer)
- Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends And Influence Peopleย (recommended byย Martin Klose)
- Christopher Alexander – The Timeless Way of Buildingย (recommended byย Rachel Davies)
- Harrison Owen – Wave Riderย (recommended byย Deborah Hartmann-Preuร andย Bernhard Findeiss)
- Jon Jenkins and Maureen Jenkins – The 9 Disciplines of a Facilitatorย (recommended byย Sandra Sieroux)
- Dee Hock – One From Manyย (recommended byย Martin Heider)
- Mortimer J. Adler – How to Read a Bookย (recommended byย Ilja Preuร)
- Tom DeMarco – Slackย (recommended byย John McFadyen)
- Richard Hackman – Leading Teamsย (recommended byย Pawel “Paul” Lipinski)
- Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyย / Per Anhalter durch die Galaxisย (recommended byย Stefan Gfrรถrer andย Sven Tiffe)
- Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolfย (recommended byย Jens Korte)
- Alistair Cockburn – Crystal Clearย (recommended byย Maurice le Rutte)
- Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleย (recommended byย Yves Hanoulle)
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