From AI to Pretotyping: Get smarter for 2017 with the Top 25 Innovation Reading List

The Future

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World By Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think By Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century By George Friedman

Method

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O’Reilly)) By Ash Maurya

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses By Eric Ries

Pretotype It: Make sure you are building The Right It before you build It right By Alberto Savoia

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth By Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days By Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Leaders

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future By Ashlee Vance

How Google Works By Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon By Brad Stone

AI

The Fourth Industrial Revolution By Prof Klaus Schwab

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence By Ray Kurzweil

Product Management

Intercom on Product Management By Des Traynor

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products By Nir Eyal

Effectiveness & Habits

So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love By Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World By Cal Newport

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

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion By Elle Luna

The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking By Eli Broad

Fiction

11/22/63: A Novel By Stephen King

Daemon (2 Book Series) By Daniel Suarez

Wool By Hugh Howey — anything by Hugh is excellent reading.

Ready Player One: A Novel By Ernest Cline

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence By Ray Kurzweil

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