Sources of inspiration
Someone once said that copying from one person is plagiarism, copying from many people is research. For a long time I’ve read, listened, and watched a whole variety of material and in time some of it comes together to produce ideas. It’s rarely the case that one comment then becomes one idea and so directly quoting a source isn’t always possible especially as I often start to form the ideas whilst out running. To recognise the contributions of many this page will be a list of sources that will have influenced me.
Podcasts
Institute for Government — Inside Briefing
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HBR Exponential View with Azeem Azhar
Kindle Books
· The 1% rule: How to fall in love with the process and achieve your wildest dreams. — Tommy Baker
· 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works — A True Story — Dan Harris
· 2 Weeks a Year? Finding Humor while deployed to Iraq — Trent Cherin
· 21 Projects Guaranteed to Keep Your Kids Occupied This Weekend — Instructables Authors
· A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge — Harry Ognall
· Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense — Rory Sutherland
· All That Remains: A Life in Death — Sue Black
· Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
· Billy Graham: Leading with Love: 5 Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders — Matt Woodley
· Business Reimagined: Why work isn’t working and what you can do about it — Coplin Dave
· Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators — Ronan Farrow
· Charity Begins with Murder — Annie McDowall
· Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently — Dawna Markova
· Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead — Brené Brown
· Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently — Beau Lotto
Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
· Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit — Richard Coles
· First Man In: Leading from the Front — Ant Middleton
· Go Fund Yourself: What Money Means in the 21st Century, How to be Good at it and Live Your Best Life — Alice Tapper
· Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine — Hannah Fry
· Hit Refresh: A Memoir by Microsoft’s CEO — Satya Nadella
· How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation — Stig Abell
· How I Roll: Life, Love, and Work After a Spinal Cord Injury — J. Bryant Neville Jr.
· How NOT to be a Football Millionaire — Keith Gillespie My Autobiography — Keith Gillespie
· How to be right. James O’Brien
· How to fail: everything I’ve learned from. Elizabeth Day
· How To Win Good to Great Friends With Seven Habits and In One Minute Learn The Secret To Think and Grow Rich — Tom Nardone
· It’s not about you. A brief guide to a meaningful life. Tom Rath
· Leadership is Simple, Stupid — Ben H. Hugh
· Legacy — James Kerr
· Lessons I’ve Learned — Davina McCall
· Managing people for the first time — Infinite Ideas
· Monday to Friday Man — Alice Peterson
· NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently — Steve Silberman
· Outliers: The Story of Success — Malcolm Gladwell
· Outstanding leadership — Molly Harvey
·Pig Wrestling. Pete Lindsay
· Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice — Bill Browder
· Rubbernecker — Belinda Bauer
· Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won’t want to miss — Jodi Picoult
· Spycraft Rebooted: How Technology is Changing Espionage (Kindle Single) — Edward Lucas
· Stab Proof Scarecrows — Lance Manley
· That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph — Marc Randolph
The Bullet Journal Method — Ryder Carroll
· The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness — Ichiro Kishimi
· The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups — Daniel Coyle
· The CV — Alan Sugar
· The Doctor Will See You Now — Max Pemberton
·The Future of Feeling. how to build empathy in a Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
· The Heathrow Doctor: The Highs And Lows Of Life As An Airport Doctor — Stephanie Green
· The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World — David Robert Grimes
· The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Oliver Sacks
· The Participation Revolution: How to ride the waves of change in a terrifyingly turbulent world — Neil Gibb
· The Perfect Close: The Secret To Closing Sales — The Best Selling Practices & Techniques For Closing The Deal — James M Muir
· The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact — Chip Heath
· The Prison Doctor: My time inside Britain’s most notorious jails. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER — Dr Amanda Brown
· The Relationship Economy: Building Stronger Customer Connections in the Digital Age — John R. DiJulius III
· The Sheriff of Nowhere — Henry G Radcliff
· The Six Conversations of a Brilliant Manager — Alan J. Sears
· The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born. It’s grown — Daniel Coyle
· The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey — Geraint Thomas
· The Trusted Advisor — David H. Maister
· The Year Without Pants. Scott Berkun
· This is How You Lose the Time War: an epic time-travelling love story — Amal El-Mohtar
· Trust Me, I’m a (Junior) Doctor — Max Pemberton
· Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free From Shame — Vicky Beeching
· Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest — Ben Fogle
· We Were Warriors: A Powerful and Moving Story of Courage Under Fire — Johnny Mercer
· What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions — Randall Munroe
· WHO CUT THE CHEESE? An Amazing Parody About Change And How We Can Get Our Hands On Yours — Stilton Jarlsberg
· Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller — Reni Eddo-Lodge
· Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious — Margaret Heffernan
· WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller — Robert Peston
Real Books
Disruption — James McQuivey
Change Management — Hiatt, Creasey
The Coaching Habit — Michael Bungay Stanier
Tribal Leadership — Dave Logcan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright
The Silo Effect — Gillian Tett
Turn the Ship Account — David Marquet
Relationology — Matt Bird
Inferior — Angela Saini
Simpler — The Future of Government — Cass R Sunstein
The Pheonix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The First 90 days — Watkins
The five dysfunctions of a team — Patrick Lencioni
Business Relationship Management for the Digital Enterprise — Vaughan Merlyn
IT Business Partnerships — Joseph Topinka
Forged in Crisis — Nancy Koehn
Riddle of the Waves — Steven Price Brown
Why should anyone be led by yout — Goffee and Jones
Your life in my hands — Rachel Clarke
Digital Transformation at Scale — Tom Loosemore
Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O’Neil
You are awesom — Matthew Syed
Make Space — SJ Asquith
Rising Strong — Brene Brown
Uncharted — Erez Aiden
Deep Work — Cal Newport
The Chimp Paradox — Prof. Steve Peters
Our Iceberg is melting — John Kotter
Loonshots — Safi Bahcall
The little big things — Henry Fraser
Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
The 4 Disciplines of Execution — Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jum Huling
Start with Why — Simon Sinek
Black Box Thinking — Matthew Syed
The Circle — Dave Eggers
Close to the Wind — Pete Goss
The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Strenghts Finder — Tom Rath
Dark Matters and Trojan Horses — Dan Hill
The greatest — Matthew Syed
The salespersons secret code — Ian Mills
Do no harm — Henry Marsh
Brag — Peggy Klaus
Lean In — Sheryl Sandberg
The Structure of Scientific Revolution — Thomas Kuhn
Radical Candor — Kim Scott
The Industries of the Future — Alec Ross
The Challenger Sale — Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Six Thinking Hats — De Bono
Suddenly In Charge — Roberta Chinsky Matuson
Future Smart — James Canton
From Good to Great — Jim Collins
The New IT — Dyche
If we can put a man on the moon — Eggers O’Leary
