Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life

By Paddy Miller

Great book about how incorporate innovation into you day by day work and also how to stimulate innovation as an "architect of innovation". With a 5+1 model, Paddy Miller explains that innovation is allowed by keeping focus, connect ideas, Tweak and challenging of initial ideas, select the best ideas, steal storm past the politics of innovation and persist! Very simple and direct ready. Excellent book.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By Don Tapscott

For me this is one of the best books I've read about web 2.0 and social networks. It is an amazing approach of how to understand the interconnection between the different initiatives in the wiki environment.

Project Management Casebook

By David I. Cleland

One of the first case studies book about project management edited by David Clealand. An interesting reference of success stories and trends.

Project Management Circa 2025

By David I. Cleland

Book that compiles a series of articles about the future of project management. Full of insights about value of project management, business case and other themes.

Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Great book to understand that you can benefit from chaos. It is basic the opposite of a Project Manager does. Very good reading!

Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme

By Robert K. Wysocki

Very interesting book if you want to understand the difference from the traditional project management method and the agile, extreme programming, scrum, etc.

Extreme Project Management

By Douglas DeCarlo

Essentials of Project Control

By Jeffrey K. Pinto

Set of articles covering project monitoring and control. Interesting for consultation but not a book for reading and learning.

Effective Work Breakdown Structures

By Gregory T. Haugan

Outstanding book if you want to learn about the work breakdown structures. It is a book you must have in your shelf for 2 reasons: The relevance of the topic and the way Gregory Haugan wrote it.

Earned Value Project Management

By Quentin W. Fleming

For me it is considered the "bible" of Earned Value Management. When I was preparing my dissertation work for my master degree this was one of the first books I used to understand the earned value process. It is just a perfect book if you want to understand the topic.

Dictionary of Project Management Terms

By J. LeRoy Ward

I was fortunate when LeRoy Ward invited me to write some works about this book. This is a perfect glossary of the terms in Project Management. This is the book for you if you are struggling to understand what is "critical chain, "fast tracking", "EVMS", "resource leveling", etc.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

By Peter L. Bernstein

For me this is one of the best books if you want to understand risk management. With an intriguing narrative, Peter Bernstein explain the history of risks and all the evolution on the concepts or risk and risk management over the history. It is not a book to "teach" Risk Management but a perfect narrative of the concepts around risks.