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.

Planning in 140 Tweets

By Ricardo Viana Vargas MSc PMI-RMP PMI-SP PMP

Whatever your profession is, every time any kind of temporary work arise, you will be faced with a project. And managing this effort is very different from managing routine. This book is to be read by the lawyer, the doctor, the businessman, the researcher, the public worker, in short, for all professionals who want to learn the key concepts that involve planning activities and project management in a simple, fast and direct way.

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!

Extreme Project Management

By Douglas DeCarlo

Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits

By Harvey A. Levine

Book the discuss the project selection process to create the portfolio. Approaches mainly the aspects related to the benefits and strategic alignment.

Agile Estimating and Planning

By Mike Cohn

Another important book to understand the process of planning using agile methods.

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the Pmo: Multiplying Roi at Warp Speed

By Gerald I. Kendall

Good book about PMO and Portfolio. For me the title was very powerful comparing with the content. I was expecting something related to the calculation of PMO ROI. Despite this it is a very good book about the topic.

Five-phase Project Management: A Practical Planning And Implementation Guide

By Joseph W. Weiss

Book that presents the process of planning (like the PMI-PMBOK Standards). What I like most is the approach of planning phases and how to plan it.

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

By Bertrand Russell

More than classic essay by Bertrand Russell, it covers the joy of having time to think and to relax in order to produce more. I think I should read it every single day :).