Boeken die je denken fundamenteel veranderd hebben

Door: Coert Visser Gepubliceerd op 23 jun, 2009 in de rubriek Boeken & artikelen
Kennisbank onderwerpen: Oplossingsgericht managen, Lifestyle & Kunst

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Boek van de week

Agenda

booksOp mijn Engelstalige site www.solutionfocusedchange.com vroeg ik lezers te vertellen welke boeken hun denken over zichzelf, hun werk en/of het leven fundamenteel veranderd hadden. Inmiddels staat er een interessante lijst van boeken:

Mijn eigen lijst:

  1. You Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer. While I now think this book is probably not the most sophisticated book on psychology, it did ignite my curiosity for psychology.
  2. Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter. This book, more than the famous Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid opened a fascinating world for me and got me hooked on reading and learning. It introduced me to such things as artificial intelligence, social dilemmas and skepticism.
  3. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence by Don Tapscott. This book woke me up to the phenomenon of Internet. After reading it I kept on talking to people about it and they often confidently dismissed the idea that 10 years from then they would do a lot of stuff via The Internet. Now they do. This book inspired me to take the Internet very seriously. I still do.
  4. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong and Insoo Kim Berg. When I read this book in 2000 I knew the approach it described would easily keep be busy for many, many years which turned out to be true. The solution-focused approach changed the very foundation from which I approach my work and many situations beyond work. It was a great privilege to get to know Insoo personally and to work and write with her.

Here are the lists (for full explanations read the comments section):

1. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig
2. Le petit Prince by Antoine sant-Excupéry
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Kevin Clouthier:

1. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
3. The Saturated Self by Ken Gergen
4. Leadership & the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
5. Change: Principles of Problem Formation & Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland & Richard Fisch
6. The Heroic Client by Barry Duncan & Scott Miller
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
8. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers

Margreeth van der Kooij:

1. Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan
2. Presence by Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski and Otto Scharmer
3. Theory-U by Otto Scharmer
4. When Nietzshe wept by Irvin D. Yalom

Neil Usher:

Liselotte Baeijaert:

1. The art of Happiness by Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
3. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong & Insoo Kim Berg
4. The resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert
5. Guèrir by Dr. David Servan Schreiber

Erik Volkers

1. I’m OK, you’re OK by Thomas Harris
2. Life and how to survive it by Robert Skynner & John Cleese
5. Living deliberately by Harry Palmer

Gwenda Schlundt Bodien:

1. Eline Vere by Louis Couperus
3. Le Deuxième sexe by Simone de Beauvoir
4. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
5. Abolishing performance appraisals by Tom Coens & Mary Jenkins
7. One small step by Yvonne Dolan
8. Doen wat werkt by Coert Visser
1. The Road to Freedom by Jean Paul Sartre
2. The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
3. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Anna M. Vos

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Bill O’ Hanlon:

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
2. A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis.
3. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.
4. The Structure of Magic by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
5. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

Anton Stellamans:

1. Wegmarken by Martin Heidegger
2. Violence et Metaphysique by Jacques Derrida
3. Ethica by Baruch Spinoza
4. Words Were Originally Magic by Steve De Shazer
6. The long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela
7. Tao Te Ching I Tjing & Lao Tzu
1. Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter
2. Shifting Contexts by Bill O’Hanlon and James Wilk
4. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn (in conjunction with the original)
1. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
2. On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. Languages of Art by Nelson Goodman
4. Process and Reality by Whitehead
My list:
1. Your Erroneous Zones – Wayne Dyer.
4. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong and Insoo Kim Berg.

Peter Damoc:

2. Awareness by Anthony de Mello.
3. The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.
4. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
5. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Phillip Ziegler:

1. Be here now by Ram Dass
2. The Heroic Client by Barry Duncan & Scott Miller
3. The Great Psychotherapy Debate by Bruce Wampold

Peter Millecam:

1. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
2. How full is your bucket? by Tom Rath & Donald Clifton
3. Levensregel voor beginners by Wil Derksen.
2. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Bertrand Weegenaar:

1. The Hite Report by Shere Hite
2. Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky
3. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
4. Keres’ Best Games of Chess by Fred Reinfeld & Paul Keres.
1. Disney’s illustrated book on Nuclear Physics
2. Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
3. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
4. Google links to neuroscience labs.
5. Emotional Awareness by Paul Ekman and Dalai Lama
1. The dance of wounded souls by Robert Burney
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3. The artist’s way by Julia Cameron
1. The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux
2. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
1. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
2. The Nurture Assumption by J.R. Harris
3. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong & Insoo Kim Berg
4. Chaos by J. Gleick

Yvonne van Lith:

1. De Helende Reis – Brandon Bays
2. Wat je vindt mag je houden – Jan van Koert
3. Geweldloze Communicatie – Marshall Rosenberg
4. Doen wat werkt – Coert Visser
5. Je ongekende vermogens – Anthony Robbins
6. De Kabbalist – Geert Kempen

know the question is hard, but let’s hear it folks, what are the books that changed you?

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Yvonne: 23 jun 2011

De Helende Reis – Brandon Bays
Wat je vindt mag je houden – Jan van Koert
Geweldloze Communicatie – Marshall Rosenberg
Doen wat werkt – Coert Visser
Je ongekende vermogens – Anthony Robbins
De Kabbalist – Geert Kempen

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