FOUNDATIONS
The Age of Discontinuity – Peter Drucker
The Age of Unreason – Charles Handy
Japanese Manufacturing Techniques – Richard Schonberger
The Art of Japanese Management – Pascale and Athos
Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital – Carlota Perez
Small is Beautiful – E F Schumacher
Theory Y – Douglas McGregor
The Organisation Man – William H Whyte (not so much an inspiration as an essential to understanding corporate heirarchies)
Principles of Scientific Management – F.W. Taylor (as above, more an essential to understanding the origins of work study & “Taylorism” than an inspiration)
In the Age of the Smart Machine – Shoshanna Yuboff
Re-Engineering the Corporation – Michael Hammer & James Champy
Teaching giants to dance – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Into the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
The Goal – Eliyahu Goldratt
Maverick – Ricardo Semler
SYSTEMIC APPROACH
The Origin Of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics – Eric Beinhocker
The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge
The Nature of Technology – W Brian Arthur
Diagnosing the System for Organizations – Stafford Beer
WEB 1.0 CLASSICS
Net.gain – John Hagel
Being Digital – Nicholas Negroponte
Wikinomics – Don Tapscott
The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
The Big Switch – Nick Carr
Burn Rate – Michael Wolff
Hackers and Painters – Paul Graham
GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Emergence – Steven Johnson
The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki
The Wealth of Networks – Yochai Benkler
The Economics of Attention – Richard Lanham
Critical Mass – Philip Ball
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? – Robin Dunbar
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age – Clay Shirky
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY
Linked – Barabasi
Networks: An Introduction – Mark Newman
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World – Jon Kleinberg
Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings – Charles Kadushin
The Wealth of Networks – Yochai Benckler
SOCIAL NETWORK ORGANISATION – THEORIES & HYPOTHESES
Smart Mobs – Howard Rheingold
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations – Clay Shirky
Tribes – Seth Godin
Starfish & the Spider – Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom
Six Degress – Duncan Watts
SOCIAL BUSINESS
Culture Shock – Will McInnes
The World is Flat – Thomas Friedland
Social Business By Design – Dion Hinchliffe and Peter Kim
Monkeys & Typewriters – Jemima Gibbons
Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges – Andrew McAfee
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies – Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity and Reap Big Results – Morten T. Hansen
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward – Benoit Mandelbrot
The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business – Umair Haque
The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here – Lynda Gratton
SOCIAL INNOVATION & RELATED
The Future of Ideas – Lawrence Lessig
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail – Clayton Christensen
A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing – Paul Sloane
CONTRARIAN VIEWS
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other – Sherry Turkle
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto – Jaron Lanier
Why Most Things Fail – Paul Ormerod
The Peter Principle – Dr Lawrence Peter
The Cult of The Amateur – Andrew Keen