Currently Studying
The Rise of Superman – Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible – Steven Kotler
Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working – Dan Heath
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing – Margaret Urban Walker
After Virtue – MacIntyre, Alasdair
What We Owe to Each Other – Thomas M Scanlon
Sidecountry: Tales of death and life from the Back Roads of Sports – John Branch
Medicine and Systems Thinking
- The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
Reliability through process and disciplined coordination. - Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance – Atul Gawande
How craft, humility, and measurement elevate medical excellence. - The Cleveland Clinic Way – Toby Cosgrove
Systematic care delivery and leadership grounded in empathy. - Walk on Water – Michael Ruhlman
Surgical mastery and cultural excellence in high-performance medicine. - Medicine as Team Sport – New England Journal of Medicine
Collaboration as the foundation of patient safety and learning. - The Cleveland Clinic Caregiver Model – Cleveland Clinic
Service culture that unites technical precision and human connection.
Hospitality and Service Excellence
- Unreasonable Hospitality – Will Guidara
Service as generosity: designing moments of care that transform experience. - Excellence Wins – Horst Schulze
The operational discipline behind world-class service cultures. - Setting the Table – Danny Meyer
Enlightened hospitality and leadership through service. - The Ritz-Carlton Rulebook – Fast Company
Codifying culture and standards that endure under pressure. - What Great Service Leaders Know and Do – Harvard Business Review
Leadership lessons from hospitality excellence.
Sport, Performance and Mastery
- Legacy – James Kerr
The All Blacks model of humility, discipline, and sustained success. - Ferguson’s Formula – Sir Alex Ferguson
Leadership through consistency, culture, and clarity of standards. - Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
Mindfulness, team cohesion, and leadership from within. - The Score Takes Care of Itself – Bill Walsh
Process-driven excellence in competitive environments. - Open – Andre Agassi
Personal reinvention and the pursuit of disciplined mastery. - Rafa: My Story – Rafael Nadal
Resilience and ritual in high performance. - The All Blacks’ Secret to Sustained Success – Sports Illustrated
Rituals, accountability, and the design of belonging.
Leadership, Systems and Organizational Design
- The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge
Systems thinking and learning organizations. - Team of Teams – Stanley McChrystal
Adaptive systems and distributed leadership. - Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Standards and accountability under pressure. - Turn the Ship Around! – L. David Marquet
Empowerment and intent-based leadership. - Drive – Daniel Pink
Motivation rooted in autonomy, mastery, and purpose. - Measure What Matters – John Doerr
Goal alignment through accountability and clarity. - Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
Radical transparency and feedback-driven systems. - The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
Leading for longevity, not victory. - Dare to Lead – Brené Brown
Vulnerability, trust, and courageous leadership. - The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
Belonging and trust as the foundation of high performance. - The Discipline of Building Character – Joseph Badaracco Jr. (HBR)
Ethical leadership and decision-making. - A Culture of Discipline – Jim Collins
The architecture of sustained operational excellence.
Creativity, Story and Human Potential
- The Creative Act – Rick Rubin
Mastery as a way of being, not a pursuit of outcome. - The Practice – Seth Godin
Discipline and consistency in creative work. - Show Your Work – Austin Kleon
Transparency as a creative discipline. - Creative Confidence – Tom and David Kelley
Design thinking as a human-centered approach to innovation. - On Grand Strategy – John Lewis Gaddis
Strategic patience and long-term design. - The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin
Pattern recognition and adaptability in pursuit of mastery. - Deep Work – Cal Newport
The discipline of focus in an age of distraction. - Range – David Epstein
Cross-disciplinary thinking and the power of generalists. - Think Again – Adam Grant
The practice of reflection and unlearning.
Psychology, Behavior and Fulfillment
- Atomic Habits – James Clear
Systems of behavior and compounding change. - The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
The science of routine and reinforcement. - Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
Purpose, endurance, and the moral dimension of work. - The Neuroscience of Excellence – Harvard Business Review
Cognitive foundations of peak performance. - The Science of Happiness at Work – Greater Good Science Center
Fulfillment and psychological well-being as organizational drivers. - The Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins
Letting go as a leadership discipline. - The Tyranny of Metrics – Jerry Z. Muller
A caution against measuring what matters least.
My Digital Library | Inspiration
- Create a World Built to Last | Craftsmanship Magazine
- TED: Ideas change everything
- Psyche | Know Your Self
- The Welcome Conference: Share — Inspire — Connect
- Real Leaders – Uniting Better Leaders for a Better World
- Undark Magazine | Truth, Beauty, Science.
- Spotify – Web Player
- Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations – Atlas Obscura
- Gallup – Workplace Consulting & Global Research
- Home | Huck Huck Magazine
- Harvard Business Review – Ideas and Advice for Leaders
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- adidas Football – YouTube
- Nike Soccer – YouTube
- Ernie Ball – YouTube – The Pursuit of Tone
- artist signature series tom delonge – YouTube – unfortunately, I am obsessed with Blink-182 and most things pop punk

