Are you looking for inspiration? Do you need something to listen to? Perhaps you’re just looking for a new show to watch? No matter what, we’ve got you covered with the LEC Bookshelf!
Books:
Design Thinking, Lean Launch, and Customer Discovery
- The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage, by Roger L. Martin
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you, by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant
Innovative Thinkers
- Climbing My Mountain: My Life, My Words, and Values, by Sheldon B. Lubar
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcom Gladwell
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, by Adam Grant
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
Building & Launching Your Startup
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series), by Alexander Osterwalder
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (Translated by Lionel Giles)
- InstaBrain: The New Rules for Marketing to Generation Z, by Sarah Weise
- The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning, by James E. Zull
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries
Effective Communication
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker
- As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick, by Peter Meyers
- Dance of Leadership: Mastering the Art of Making a Difference Using Your Unique Style, by Robin Denise Johnson
- Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well, by Douglas Stone
Inspiration
- Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture), by Nathaniel Stern
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
- reWork, by Jason Fried
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
- How to Think like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, by Michael J. Gelb
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Telling Our Stories: A History of Diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1956 to 2022, by Drs. Chia Y Vang and David J. Pate, Jr.
Podcasts:
Things to do:
- Watch The Founder
- Watch Silicon Valley
- Catch up on sleep
- Go to the Saint Kate Arts Hotel
- Check out Toastmasters International