3 COLLECTIONS · 9 BOOKS EACH

Nine Human Agency and Leadership Signals

Nine books for judging more carefully, leading change and designing personal agency without confusing inspiration with evidence.

The nine selections

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

    Confidence and fluency are unreliable substitutes for a careful judgement process.

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  2. Noise — Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein

    A system can produce unfair variation even when its average judgement looks reasonable.

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  3. Social Intelligence — Daniel Goleman

    Relationships shape the conditions in which individual capability becomes useful.

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  4. Switch — Chip Heath and Dan Heath

    Change depends on motivation and the path around a person, as well as an instruction.

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  5. The Courage to Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

    Agency grows when approval, responsibility and another person’s choices are distinguished.

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  6. The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday

    A constraint can become a design input when perception and action are separated.

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  7. Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright

    Observing a feeling can create space between an impulse and a response.

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  8. Becoming — Michelle Obama

    A public role grows out of private choices, relationships and institutions.

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  9. The Will to Lead — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

    Leadership arguments reveal whose responsibility and legitimacy a proposed order assumes.

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The sequence is editorial reading order, not a numerical score. Two founder titles in the design collection are clearly labelled previews.