Excellent roadmap for implementing organisational change.

Fascinating account of Lockheed's secret ‘Skunk Works' facility, and how they went about achieving technological advances that were generations ahead of their time, including the U-2, Blackbird, an Stealth Fighter.

Detailed run-through of the Toyota Production System / the Toyota Way / Lean Production. Full of wisdom, easy to read, some good case studies - definitely recommend this whether you've got production problems or just generally interested in how to get things done more efficiently and effectively.”

Educative and entertaining run-through of how to write a good comic strip, from the master Eisner.

Excellent guide to standards-based design, highly recommended.

Brilliant insights into the way the world around us works - easy to read and eye-opening.

Some great guidance on using lean principles to optimise the chances of your start-ups success - useful as it can also be applied to startups within large companies.

Great bio and guide to living a successful life from the ex world chess and tai chi champion.

Good run-through of the present-day realities of sales and selling.

Short, easy-to-read book about the telegraph and how it was a bit like the internet of it's day.

How to open up new competitor-free environments (‘Blue Oceans') for your brands. Convincing.

Intel's Grove on company and industry strategic inflection points (crisis points) and how to not only survive but exploit them. Contains some fascinating business stories from Intel's past, encompassing some key moments in the tech industry's evolution.

One of the best business biographies I've read - up there with Andy Grove, Henry Ford and Sam Walton. And definitely the most honest and heartfelt. Brilliant.

Starts out well but half way in becomes highly mundane.

Greed and loathing at Salomon Brothers in the mid-‘80s - a riveting rollercoaster of a read.

Compelling history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century 19s great information empires.

Immensely readable and fascinating account of Edison's adventures in electricity.