Discusses the impacts that genuinely positive attitudes can have on you and those around you

Very entertaining keynote.  Recommended by a colleague.

Patterns for driving change in organizations

How your mindset can limit or expand your possibilities. Lots of lessons for me as I raise my kids.

How people see themselves and how this influences and motivates behaviour

Should be a good followup to his excellent session.  Building a better team starts with oneself.

I don’t get much exposure to this because of the nature of our product but I am positive that there are a lot of ideas here that I can still apply

Discussion and pointers on releasing software and real world problems that you will encounter. Recommended from a number of sources now.

Recommended by numerous people as a seminal work. I already have Managing the Design Factory
in the queue.

Lots of hype around Lean Startup and this book, especially from people who know the area.  This is on the top of my pile once it arrives.

Loved The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management and I expect this one to be just as good

This is referenced a lot, especially in the Poppendieck’s work

I should have read this one a long time ago

Studies of companies that are able to respond to changing markets and customer needs

Discusses the concept of pulling information through an organization to improve its ability to learn and react

Looks like an interesting explanation of why old companies are failing and the transformation to new-economy companies

The concept is so simple that I should read more about the Net Promoter score and see where it can apply in my work

Influence and persuasion to align others goals with your own.  I like the idea of win-win situations that are not manipulative.

Recommended both by Stephen Denning in his session and a basis for the session by my friends Declan Whelan and Bryan Beecham.

Mentioned by both Christopher Avery and Stephen Denning

One of the first books mentioned in Mary Poppendieck’s talk on Systems Thinking. 

Studies of numerous companies and products to help unlock ways to determine why customers are really looking for

I really enjoyed Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing and have been meaning to read this one too

Highly recommended in the Lean Startup world and apparently a necessary precursor to reading the next book in the list

A seminal work in customer development and building a startup

How corporate culture lead to success at Zappos.com

This series has been recommended by both people at the conference and at work

Leadership is who we are and not what we do. Promises to make me feel a little uncomfortable as it points out the ways that I have justified positions in the past.

Another highly recommended, boots-to-the-ground book from the Lean Startup community

Evidence-based discussion about common management practices and where they fall down