My Reading List

Areas	Reading Materials
Agile Process/Lean Process	Technical Practices or Value to Customers: What to Focus on First? https://www.leadingagile.com/2018/04/technical-practices-or-value-to-customers-what-to-focus-on-first/
	Forbes: What Is Strategic Agility? https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/01/28/what-is-strategic-agility/#698bf63ca0b1
Scalable Efficiency	Harvard Business Review: Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just Their Operations https://hbr.org/2017/06/great-businesses-scale-their-learning-not-just-their-operations Harvard Business Review: The New Organization Model: Learning at Scale https://hbr.org/2009/03/can-your-company-scale-its-lea.html
Process Automation	Harvard Business Review: Before Automating Your Company’s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them https://hbr.org/2018/06/before-automating-your-companys-processes-find-ways-to-improve-them
Software Testing	James Bach & Michael Bolton on Differences between Testing and Checking http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/category/testing-vs-checking
	Software Testing Anti-patterns http://blog.codepipes.com/testing/software-testing-antipatterns.html
Technology Trend	Harvard Business Review: Why Better Technology Can be Slower to Take Off https://hbr.org/video/5155033576001/why-better-technology-can-be-slower-to-take-off
	Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Benedict Evans: Ten Year Futures - What's likely to happen in the next decade: mobile, Google / Apple / Facebook / Amazon, innovation, machine learning, autonomous cars, mixed reality and crypto-currencies. https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/11/29/presentation-ten-year-futures
Legendary Tech Breakthrough Anecdote	New York Times: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html
	Business Insider/New York Times: Steve Jobs Freaked Out A Month Before First iPhone Was Released And Demanded A New Screen http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-new-iphone-screen-2012-1/?IR=T https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html
	Birth of the iPhone: How Apple turned clunky prototypes into a truly magical device https://www.cultofmac.com/488008/jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone/
	New York Times: How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/business/how-and-why-apple-overtook-microsoft.html
	How the iPhone crippled BlackBerry https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/how-the-iphone-crippled-blackberry/news-story/1953361416697c1fb07251f89b6b1128
Tech Entrepreneurship	Peter Thiel: What the Future Looks Like [Podcast] http://podtail.com/podcast/the-james-altucher-show/ep-43-peter-thiel-what-the-future-looks-like/ Peter Thiel: From Zero to One [Stanford University Startup Class Lecture Notes] http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup Peter Thiel: Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company [Transcripts + Podcast] https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/peter-thiel-on-the-future-of-innovation-77628a43c0dd
	Greg Satell: We Need to Learn to Manage For Complexity, Not Predictability https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/we-need-to-learn-to-manage-for-complexity-not-predictability.html
	Greg Satell: Why You Need to Stop Looking for Silver Bullets to Solve Your Problems https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/we-need-to-stop-looking-for-silver-bullets-to-solve-our-problems.html
	Greg Satell: Breaking Down Silos Is a Myth, Do This Instead https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/breaking-down-silos-is-a-myth-do-this-instead.html
	Greg Satell: 4 Things Every Leader Should Know Before Starting A Big Data Project https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/4-things-every-leader-should-know-before-starting-a-big-data-project.html
	Jason Ackerman: When you're starting a new business, some tough moments are almost guaranteed. How you carry yourself in those moments can have a profound impact on your team. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6333792806653427714 [Video]
Disruptive Innovations	Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen on Disruptive Innovations: ·    [Clayton Christensen: "Where does Growth come from?" | Talks at Google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHdS_4GsKmg ·    [Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestreptalks/2016/10/03/clayton-christensen-on-what-he-got-wrong-about-disruptive-innovation/2/#6dd9ddb15cdf ·    [Fresh Insights From Clayton Christensen On Disruptive Innovation] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/12/02/fresh-insights-from-clayton-christensen-on-disruptive-innovation/#374cd21e4702 ·    [What Is Disruptive Innovation?] https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation ·    [Innovation, economic growth, and corporate ‘short-termism’: A Q&A with business guru Clayton Christensen]   http://www.aei.org/publication/innovation-economic-growth-and-corporate-short-termism-a-qa-with-business-guru-clayton-christensen/ ·    [Surviving Disruption] https://hbr.org/2012/12/surviving-disruption
Artificial Intelligence	Former Microsoft Executive and Incumbent Baidu COO Qi Lu on AI and other technology topics https://blog.ycombinator.com/baidus-coo-qi-lu-discusses-ai-with-daniel-gross/ Former Microsoft exec reveals why Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant beat Cortana https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16142642/microsoft-cortana-amazon-alexa-qi-lu
	Harvard Business Review: What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-artificial-intelligence-can-and-cant-do-right-now
	Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng on Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Is the New Electricity https://medium.com/syncedreview/artificial-intelligence-is-the-new-electricity-andrew-ng-cc132ea6264 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EiKfQYZXc [Youtube]
	Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Frank Chen on What's working and what's not for AI https://a16z.com/2017/12/07/summit-ai-update-frank-chen/
	Companies are suddenly declaring themselves "AI first." Why it’s a problem for their current customers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/companies-suddenly-declaring-themselves-ai-first-why-its-joshua-gans/
	MIT Technology Review: Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony/
	MIT Technology Review: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/
	Wall Street Journal: AI Can’t Reason Why https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-cant-reason-why-1526657442?mod=e2li&page=1&pos=1
	The Atlantic: How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/machine-learning-is-stuck-on-asking-why/560675/
	McKinsey: Kai-Fu Lee’s perspectives on two global leaders in artificial intelligence: China and the United States https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intelligence/kai-fu-lees-perspectives-on-two-global-leaders-in-artificial-intelligence-china-and-the-united-states
	Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Benedict Evans: Ways to think about machine learning https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy
Cross Cultural Collaboration	Harvard Business Review: How Cultures Across the World Approach Leadership https://hbr.org/video/5476393165001/how-cultures-across-the-world-approach-leadership Harvard Business Review: To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making https://hbr.org/2017/07/being-the-boss-in-brussels-boston-and-beijing Harvard Business Review: How Authority and Decision-Making Differ Across Cultures https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/07/how-authority-and-decision-making-differ-across-cultures Harvard Business Review: Getting To Yes Across Cultures https://hbr.org/video/4631884629001/getting-to-yes-across-cultures Harvard Business Review: Getting to Yes Across Cultures - What to know before your next negotiation https://hbr.org/2015/12/getting-to-si-ja-oui-hai-and-da Harvard Business Review: Navigating the Cultural Minefield https://hbr.org/2014/05/navigating-the-cultural-minefield Erin Meyer: The Culture Map – Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across the World http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=4996 Harvard Business Review: Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity https://hbr.org/2016/05/leading-across-cultures-requires-flexibility-and-curiosity Harvard Business Review: How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-build-trust-with-colleagues-you-rarely-see Harvard Business Review: How to Build Trust on Your Cross Cultural Team https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-build-trust-on-your-cross-cultural-team Harvard Business Review: Cross Culture Work in a Global Economy https://hbr.org/2014/05/cross-culture-work-in-a-global-economy
Leadership/Management	Harvard Business Review: In Praise of the Incomplete Leader https://hbr.org/2007/02/in-praise-of-the-incomplete-leader
	Harvard Business Review: Understand Leadership https://hbr.org/2004/01/understanding-leadership
	Harvard Business Review: How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection https://hbr.org/2017/09/how-to-regain-the-lost-art-of-reflection
	Harvard Business Review: To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It. https://hbr.org/2017/10/to-sound-like-a-leader-think-about-what-you-say-and-how-and-when-you-say-it
	Inc.com: 18 Hard Things to Do If You Want to Be A Successful Leaders https://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/18-hard-things-to-do-if-you-want-to-be-a-successful-leaders.html
	Harvard Business Review: Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job https://hbr.org/2016/10/make-strategic-thinking-part-of-your-job
	10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned http://casnocha.com/reid-hoffman-lessons
	Harvard Business Review: Leadership through Compassion https://hbr.org/2018/02/power-can-corrupt-leaders-compassion-can-save-them
	Leader Who is capable to Scale Takes Position, Reflects on His/Her Position and Ready to Adapt His/Her Position. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hiring-leaders-your-company-wont-scale-cant-jonathan-shottan/
Emotional Intelligence	Inc.com: 7 Brilliant Things Emotionally Intelligent People Do When Their Buttons Are Pushed https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/how-emotionally-intelligent-people-masterfully-res.html Inc.com: 13 Signs of High Emotional Intelligence https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/13-things-emotionally-intelligent-people-do.html Inc.com: 10 Simple Steps Southeast Asian Entrepreneurs Can Take For Highly Effective Listening http://inc-asean.com/grow/10-simple-steps-southeast-asian-entrepreneurs-can-take-highly-effective-listening/ Forbes: 13 Things Socially Intelligent Leaders Do Differently https://www.forbes.com/sites/briannawiest/2018/03/13/13-things-socially-intelligent-leaders-do-differently/ Forbes: The ability to lock in and listen https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianaltman/2017/04/18/the-most-successful-entrepreneurs-possess-this-one-crucial-skill/ Richard Branson: Is your reaction helping the situation? https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/your-reaction-helping-situation How to stop negative feelings from affecting your conversations https://tzetang.com/2017/09/18/how-to-stop-negative-feelings-from-affecting-your-conversations/ Forbes: How To Manage Your Emotions In High-Stress Situations https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2016/11/02/how-to-manage-your-emotions-in-high-stress-situations/#4c6879c719a3 World Economic Forum: These four characteristics show you're emotionally intelligent https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/these-are-the-signs-that-you-have-high-emotional-intelligence Harvard Business Review: Emotional Intelligence – What Makes a Leader?https://hbr.org/video/5236216251001/what-makes-a-leader Inc.com: 7 Simple Tricks That Will Instantly Increase Your Emotional Intelligence https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/7-ways-to-increase-your-emotional-intelligence-starting-right-now.html Inc.com: Shift Response VS Support Response https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/only-people-with-true-emotional-intelligence-will-understand-never-say-these-5-words.html https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/16521-what-to-say-instead-of-i-know-how-you-feel-to-someone-who-is-struggling
	Harvard Business Review: Quiz Yourself: Do You Lead with Emotional Intelligence? https://hbr.org/2015/06/quiz-yourself-do-you-lead-with-emotional-intelligence
Self-Improvement	Dr. Muel Kaptein on the Self Awareness of the Psychological Forces That Trigger Bad Behaviors | Why good people do bad things https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2016/12/14/13-powerful-psychological-forces-that-make-you-do-bad-things/#6641bf00ce2f http://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-why-good-people-do-bad-things-2016-12/?IR=T/#the-pygmalion-effect-14 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2117396
	Forbes: 20 Questions That Will Make You A Better Person https://www.forbes.com/sites/briannawiest/2018/03/15/20-questions-that-will-make-you-a-better-person/ Jeffrey Towson: 3 Tips from Warren Buffett on Becoming a Better Person https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-tips-from-warren-buffett-becoming-better-person-jeffrey-towson/ Benjamin Hardy: If You Knew Something Would Improve Your Life, Why Wouldn’t You https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-knew-something-would-improve-your-life-why-wouldnt-benjamin-hardy-2/ Quartz at Work: Why being great at your job is harder than it used to be https://work.qz.com/1125409/why-being-great-is-so-much-harder-than-people-realize/ How to Love Criticism - If your objective is to be as good as you can be, then you're going to want criticism https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_dear_billionaire_i_give_you_a_d_minus [TED Talk Video] Forbes: How to Think Differently and Why https://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/05/14/how-to-think-differently-and-why/#4988e7b5ebe0
Conflict Management	Forbes: 6 Tricks To Mastering Conflict https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2016/12/08/6-tricks-to-mastering-conflict/
	Forbes: Five Conflict Management Strategies https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/06/07/five-conflict-management-strategies/#37ca84da521d
	Forbes: Listen Up: Try This To Resolve A Conflict At Work https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthellmann/2017/04/12/listen-up-try-this-to-resolve-a-conflict-at-work/#46a7beb8235e
	Harvard Business Review: In a Difficult Conversation, Listen More Than You Talk https://hbr.org/2017/02/in-a-difficult-conversation-listen-more-than-you-talk
	Harvard Business Review: How to Have Difficult Conversations When You Don't Like Conflict https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-to-have-difficult-conversations-when-you-dont-like-conflict
	Harvard Business Review: When You Don’t Like Conflict | DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS: 7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them https://hbr.org/2017/10/7-tricky-work-situations-and-how-to-respond-to-them/
	Harvard Business Review: How to Save a Meeting That’s Gotten Tense https://hbr.org/2017/12/how-to-save-a-meeting-thats-gotten-tense
	Forbes: How To Build Respect With Difficult People https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsturt/2016/10/25/how-to-build-respect-with-difficult-people/
Effective Communication	Forbes: Never Send A 'Follow-Up' Email: If You Want Answers, Do This Instead https://www.forbes.com/sites/averyblank/2017/06/22/never-send-a-follow-up-email-if-you-want-answers-do-this-instead/#fc437d316f79
	Inc.com: A detailed look at an old email from Steve Jobs teaches some important lessons https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/steve-jobs-how-to-write-great-email.html
	Forbes: 5 Steps To Get Your Voice Heard At Meetings https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaroepe/2017/01/27/5-steps-to-get-your-voice-heard-at-meetings/#4805c116da28
	Forbes: 6 Steps to Make Great Impression Every Meeting https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2016/09/12/6-steps-to-make-a-great-impression-every-meeting/#680fa08b1640
	Inc.com: How to Win Arguments Without Making Enemies https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/how-to-win-arguments-without-making-enemies.html https://conversion-rate-experts.com/steel-manning/
	thisisinsider.com: How to speak up at work based on 3 types of dissident personalities: Colluders, Adversaries, Dissenters http://www.thisisinsider.com/how-to-speak-up-at-work-and-not-get-fired-2018-3
Effective Negotiation	Margaret Neale: Negotiation is about finding a solution to your counterpart’s problem that makes you better off than you would have been had you not negotiated. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/margaret-neale-five-steps-better-negotiating
	Forbes: 3 Simple And Effective Steps To Dominate Negotiations https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2017/04/18/3-simple-and-effective-steps-to-dominate-negotiations/#80d7690186c3
	Business Insider: 9 negotiation tips for people who hate negotiating https://www.businessinsider.my/negotiation-tips-for-people-who-hate-negotiating-2018-5/
Change Management	Overcome the conflict that arises during change through action http://www.atromitosconsulting.com/ourideas/2017/11/10/overcoming-conflict-through-action
	Harvard Business Review: What Everyone Gets Wrong about Change Management https://hbr.org/2017/11/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-change-management
	Harvard Business Review: Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail https://hbr.org/2018/03/why-so-many-high-profile-digital-transformations-fail
Effective Learning	Harvard Business Review: Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It. https://hbr.org/2018/05/learning-is-a-learned-behavior-heres-how-to-get-better-at-it
	Harvard Business Review: Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-the-problem-with-learning-is-unlearning
Crisis Management	Forbes: How To Survive (And Thrive) In A Time Of Crisis https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-the-problem-with-learning-is-unlearning
	Harvard Business Review: How Leaders Can Keep Their Cool in a Crisis https://hbr.org/2018/02/how-leaders-can-keep-their-cool-in-a-crisis
Stakeholder Management	How to Break Bad News to Investors https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-break-bad-news-investors-micah-rosenbloom/
	Greylocks Partner: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on Stakeholder Management https://news.greylock.com/look-for-board-members-who-love-your-mission-5ee313ff6ad7
	Harvard Business Review: How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy https://hbr.org/2018/05/how-nokia-embraced-the-emotional-side-of-strategy
Corporate Strategic Lessons	Stratechery: The End of Windows | How Satya Nadella led the organisation to bet their future on Microsoft and not Windows https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/
	Harvard Business Review: Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub https://hbr.org/2018/06/why-microsoft-is-willing-to-pay-so-much-for-github
	Quora & Forbes: Why did Google buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and sell it off for $2.91 billion? https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-buy-Motorola-for-12-5-billion-and-sell-it-off-for-2-91-billion
	Inc.com: Who’s The Mentor? What Grab and Toyota Can Learn From Each Other http://inc-asean.com/editor-picks/whos-the-mentor-what-grab-and-toyota-can-learn-from-each-other/