Reading List

Below you’ll find books i’m currently reading. If you have any recommendation which one(s) to include, please let me know as i’ll always try to keep it updated. Ty!

⏯ Currently Reading

• Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
• Rutger Bregman - Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
• Swantje Allmers, Michael Trautmann, Christoph Magnussen - On The Way To New Work: Wenn Arbeit zu etwas wird, was Menschen stärkt

⏸️ On Hold

• Christopher Clark - The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
• Frederick P. Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month
• Geoffrey A. Moore - Crossing the Chasm
• Tijen Onaran - Nur wer sichtbar ist, findet auch statt

🌠 Wishlist

My wishlist currently features 41 books.

Gold Tier

• Andrew Chen - The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product
• Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Cal Newport - Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Elad Gil - High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10000 People
• Geoff Watts - Team Mastery: From Good to Great Agile Teamwork
• Jurgen Appelo - Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth
• Kim Scott - Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
• Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener - Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis
• Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim - Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• Nir Eyal - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• Roger Fisher, William Ury - Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in
• Rutger Bregman - Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit
• The Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
• Therese Houston - Let's Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

Silver Tier

• Amy Webb - The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
• Brigitte Witzer - Die Fleißlüge: Warum Frauen im Hamsterrad landen und Männer im Vorstand
• Darren Hardy - The Compound Effect
• David Aaker - Spanning Silos: The new CMO Imperative
• Dr. Leon Windscheid - Besser fühlen: Eine Reise zur Gelassenheit
• Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim - Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit: Wahr, falsch, plausibel - die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
• Harvard Business Review - HBRs 10 Must Reads on Strategy
• Joana Breidenbach - New Work needs Inner Work: Ein Handbuch für Unternehmen auf dem Weg zur Selbstorganisation
• John P. Kotter - Leading Change
• Kate Raworth - Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
• Nir Eyal - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
• Richard P Feynman - Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
• Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
• Tom DeMarco - The Deadline

Bronze Tier

• Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Charles MacKay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
• Erin Meyer - The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
• Gary Vaynerchuk - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence―and How You Can, Too
• Gigi Sayfan - Mastering Kubernetes: Large scale container deployment and management
• Hal Elrod - The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM
• James Richardson - Ramping Your Brand: How to Ride the Killer CPG Growth Curve
• Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• John Strelecky - The Big Five for Life
• Kübra Gümüsay - Sprache und Sein
• Manuel Jork - Artgerechte Haltung von Menschen: Wie Sie mit widersprüchlichen und empfindlichen Menschen sinnvoll zusammenleben können
• Ryan Holiday - Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising
• Waldemar Zeiler - Unfuck the Economy

✅ Completed

2022

In this year I was able to complete 4 books so far.

• Chris Bailey - Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
• Harvard Business Review - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2)
• Maja Göpel - Unsere Welt neu denken: Eine Einladung
• Sebastian Klein, Ben Hughes - The Loop Approach: How to Transform Your Organization from the Inside Out

2021

In this year I was able to complete these 12 books.

• Adam Grant - Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
• Adi Hütter - Teamgeist - Wie man ein Meisterteam entwickelt
• Alice Hasters - Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten
• Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations
• Geoff Watts - Product Mastery: From Good To Great Product Ownership
• Insa Klasing - Der 2-Stunden-Chef: Mehr Zeit und Erfolg mit dem Autonomie-Prinzip
• James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
• Janina Kugel - It's now: Leben, führen, arbeiten – Wir kennen die Regeln, jetzt ändern wir sie
• Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson - ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
• Jurgen Appelo - Management 3.0
• Reed Hastings - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
• Stephen R. Covey - 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

2020

In this year I was able to complete these 9 books.

• Anselm Grün - Menschen Führen - Leben Wecken
• Ben Stopford - Designing Event Driven Systems
• C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy and Evan Ryan - Product Roadmaps Relaunched: A Practical Guide to Prioritizing Opportunities, Aligning Teams, and Delivering Value to Customers and Stakeholders
• Daniel Kahnemann - Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Franz Kafka - Die Verwandlung
• L. David Marquet - Turn the Ship Around!
• Peter Thiel with Blake Masters - Zero to one
• Simon Sinek - Start with Why
• Stephen R. Covey - 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

2019

In this year I was able to complete these 6 books.

• Andy Weir - The Martian
• Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
• David Allen - Getting Things Done
• Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
• Martin Leo - Ich krieg Dich!
• Philip Houston - Spy the Lie