Saturday, September 25, 2010

27 Books for L&D Folks...



I have listed down a few books that have shaped my thinking over the last one year. I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. They are not predominantly directly related to learning or instructional design or theory (except for one or two); however, they all helped me to see the larger picture, to understand where workplace learning and training fits in, and why and where change is needed. There are many more that can be added to the list but I will keep that for another post…You can see some of them in the picture of my bookshelf above...
Some of the might seem out of place in a list for L&D folks, but I think it is important to read around a subject to understand the context, and the emerging patterns...

 Sr. #
Subject
Title
Author
1
Instructional Design
Richard Mayer
2
Workplace Learning

Peter Senge
3
Workplace Learning

Jay Cross
4
Workplace learning
The Working Smarter Fieldbook
Jay Cross
5
Workplace Learning/Training

Jane Bozarth
6
Knowledge Management
Etienne Wegner, et al.
7
Knowledge Management/Workplace learning/Innovation/Business
Morten Hansen
8
Design/Presentation

Garr Reynolds
9
Training/Performance Management/HPT

Allison Rossett
10
Design/Communication/Business/Presentation
Dan Roam
11
Communication/Presentation/Business
Dan and Chip Heath
12
Change management/Communication/Self management/Innovation
Dan and Chip Heath
13
Self management/Change/innovation
Seth Godin
14
Management/Innovation/21st C thinking
Gary Hamel
15
Marketing/Communication/Innovation/

16
Motivation/Change management/Innovation/Performance Management
Daniel Pink
17
Philosophy/Psychology
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
18
Philosophy/Education/Motivation
Sir Ken Robinson
19
Philosophy/Psychology/Science
Ken Wilber
20
Web 2.0/SoMe/Collaboration/Workplace learning
Andrew McAfee
21
Collaboration
James Surowiecki
22
Innovation/Management/Creativity
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
23
Creativity/Psychology
Howard Gardner
24
Creativity/Thinking/Mind Maps
Tony Buzan
25
Network/Web 2.0
Clay Shirky
26
Network/Web 2.0
Clay Shirky
 27
 Economics/Innovation
 Nassim Taleb
 


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