В своем недавнем выступлении Сергей Белоусов, председатель правления компании Parallels, основатель и генеральный директор компании Acronis, озвучил список рекомендуемых им книг и фильмов. Эта подборка не только для людей из IT, но и тех, кто готов создать свой стартап, продвинуть свой бизнес, вдохновиться биографией великих людей или найти иную мотивацию.
Книги
«Akademik Lev Landau» — Kora Landau-Drobantseva
Biography of Lev Landau by his wife Kora
«Blah Blah Blah» — Dan Roam
Visual grammatics for presenting ideas
«Blue Ocean Strategy» — W. Chan Kim
Working in new market niches
«Break From the Pack» — Oren Harari
Strategy to fight competition
«Conceptual Blockbusting» — James L. Adams
Techniques for finding alternative solutions to a problem.
«Critical Chain» — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Novel on project management.
«Crossing the Chasm» — Geoffrey A. Moore
Marketing planning for software products, positioning and marketing execution.
«Drive» — Daniel H. Pink
Managing people motivation.
«Flow» — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Guide how to experience enjoyment, creativity, and involvement with life.
«Founders at Work» — Jessica Livingston
Interviews with founders of technology companies.
«Hard Drive» — James Wallace
Microsoft's way of doing things.
«High Stakes, No Prisoners» — Charles H. Ferguson
Choosing strategy for internet startups.
«High Tech Start Up» — John L. Nesheim
Overview of IT startups, general information.
«How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere» — Larry King
Networking and public speaking.
«iCon Steve Jobs» — Jeffrey S. Young
Steve Jobs and Apple history.
«Influence» — Robert B. Cialdini
Influencing people without direct push.
«Inside Cisco» — Ed Paulson
Cisco’s history.
«Inside Steve’s Brain» — Leander Kahney
The way Steve Jobs deals with things.
«Inside the Tornado» — Geoffrey A. Moore
Moving product from early adopters to mainstream market.
«Inspired» — Marty Cagan
Program and product management.
«iWoz» — Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak biograpy.
«Like a Virgin» — Richard Branson
The way Branson works.
«Living on the Fault Line» — Geoffrey A. Moore
Strategies to raise company value.
«Marketing High Technology» — William H. Davidow
Marketing leadership in product development.
«Microsoft Secrets» — Michael A. Cusumano
Microsoft’s organizational structure.
«Negotiate This!» — Herb Cohen
Negotiation skills
«Netscape Time» — Jim Clark
Netscape’s history.
«Never Eat Alone» — Keith Ferrazzi
Networking.
«Nudge» — Richard H. Thaler
The process of making decisions.
«One Strategy» — Steven Sinofsky
Operational execution at Microsoft.
«Outliers» — Malcolm Gladwell
Look at successful people.
«Physics of the Future» — Michio Kaku
Insight on potential future inventions.
«Positioning» — Al Ries
Branding, marketing and product management.
«Programming the Universe» — Seth Lloyd
Details on quantum computer and comparison of universe with quantum computer.
«Purple Cow» — Seth Godin
The way to differentiate a product from competition.
«Showstopper!» — G. Pascal Zachary
Story of Windows NT, case study for running complex software projects.
«Six Thinking Hats» — Edward de Bono
Thinking techniques and types.
«Software Product Management Essentials» — Alyssa Dver
Product management essentials.
«Steve Jobs» — Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs’ complete bio.
«Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars» — Mitch Meyerson
Social media marketing.
«Talent Is Overrated» — Geoff Colvin
Hard work leads to success.
«The Art of Asking» — Terry J. Fadem
Precision questionning.
«The Beginning of Infinity» — David Deutsch
The progress of knowledge development.
«The Black Swan» — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mitigation of issues.
«The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison» — Mike Wilson
Larry Ellison biography.
«The Fabric of Reality» — David Deutsch
Things in physics that just a few years ago were considered impossible.
«The Goal» — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Novel on project management and business processes improvement.
«The Google Story» — David A. Vise
Google’s history.
«The Idea Factory» — Jon Gertner
Bell Labs history.
«The Inmates Are Running the Asylum» — Alan Cooper
Stories about good and bad software products
«The Innovator’s Dilemma» — Clayton M. Christensen
Evolution vs disruptive innovation.
«The Lean Startup» — Eric Ries
Running lean, balancing planning and execution.
«The Long Tail» — Chris Anderson
Working in a market niche.
«The Monk and the Riddle» — Randy Komisar
Story about growing various startup businesses.
«The Mythical Man-Month» — Frederick P. Brooks
Running complex software products, team management.
«The Personal Efficiency Program» — Kerry Gleeson
Workload management, time management.
«The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs» — Carmine Gallo
People management skills, team building.
«The Race for a New Game Machine» — David Shippy
Story about development of innovative chips to allow creation of innovative products.
«The Startup Owner’s Manual» — Steve Blank
Models for running a statup.
«The Swordless Samurai» — Kitami Masao
Leadership example.
«The Tipping Point» — Malcolm Gladwell
Guide on how to spread ideas and sell products
«The Willpower Instinct» — Kelly McGonigal
How to self control.
«The Zappos Experience» — Joseph Michelli
Principles of Zappos.
«Thinking, Fast and Slow» — Daniel Kahneman
Thinking techniques.
«Tribal Leadership» — Dave Logan
People management skills, team building.
«Tribes» — Seth Godin
Leadership in marketing.
«Under the Radar» — Jonathan Bond
Open source and Red Hat.
«What Every BODY is Saying» — Joe Navarro
Body language.
«What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There» — Marshall Goldsmith
What to do to achieve next level.
«What Would Google Do?» — Jeff Jarvis
Google’s history.
Фильмы
«Breaking Bad» — Vince Gilligan (2008-2013)
Human psychology.
«Bugsy» — Barry Levinson (1991)
The way innovators may behave.
«Das Boot» — Wolfgang Petersen (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror
«Gattaca» — Andrew Niccol (1997)
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
«House M.D.» — David Shore (2004-2012)
The way some genius may behave.
«Lost Interview with Steve Jobs» — Paul Sen (2012)
A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT.
«Pirates of Silicon Valley» — Martyn Burke (1999)
History of Apple and Microsoft.
«Social Network» — David Fincher (2010)
Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website.
«The Bone Collector» — Phillip Noyce (1999)
Collecting evidence for due diligence report.
«The Sopranos» — David Chase (1999-2007)
Human psychology.
«The Wire» — David Simon (2002-2008)
Government internal.
«There will be Blood» — Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
«The Edge» — Lee Tamahori (1992)
About entreprenourship for lost in the woods and possible spirit of entreprenour, but also just fun
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