The Janwaar Way: A Nomad’s Compass to Change That Holds
Everyone wants change. No one wants to change. That’s the dilemma. Ulrike Reinhard has found a way out: The Janwaar Way. It’s not a straightforward way.…
Category: Best of Books for Business
Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World
We are not ready for AI: our organizations, our companies, our society. Thanks to AI, everyone is becoming more powerful. But at the same time,…
Best of Books for Business 2025
Last year, I read many books so that you don’t have to read them. 😉 Those are my recommended Best of Books for Business from…
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Before Datentreiber, I worked for a company that used real-time text analytics to detect market-moving events in stock market news. The business idea originated from…
Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action
We have been doing it for many years without realizing it: flow engineering. The book of the same name by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis…
Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems
AI is like humans: alone, we are pretty stupid and can only solve simple tasks. As soon as the problem becomes more complex, more complex…
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By now, everyone has probably seen the saying “AI Won’t Replace You. A Human Using AI Will.” on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. As…
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Over the years, my focus has shifted from Data/AI (Architecture) Design to (Data/AI) Organization Design. The reason: even the best technology is worthless if people…
How to Measure Anything
“We can’t measure that.” – You probably know the excuse. In times of Gen AI hype, it’s more popular than ever: “Productivity growth thanks to…
Lean Analytics
An oldie but a goldie that is still highly relevant, not only for start-ups, but for anyone who wants to apply targeted analytics with minimal…
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
“Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days”: Not a revolutionary book but well summarized and provided with anecdotes…
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
“Playing to Win” – THE classic strategy book. Key message: strategy is about choices. And the first choice is: Where to Play? And this is…
Team of Teams
This is one of my favorite books: Team of Teams. It is highly relevant to business, but also very exciting. It is very well known…
Thinking in Systems
Systems Thinking is the new Design Thinking. Design thinking is being talked to death because sticking colorful notes does not lead to disruptive innovations. Surprise,…
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
“Good Strategy, Bad Strategy.” My absolute favorite of the books on strategy. I only discovered and read it a few years ago. And with every…
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
I wish everyone would read Humanocracy—and I mean everyone: employees, employers, politicians and many more besides. It covers a wide range of topics, from the…