Resources

Because I like to read and I always find out about a new book, because I had them written in a lot of places and because maybe some of them I will not get to read without help I decided it’s time for this page to exist. I’ll post here what I want to read, what I read, and maybe you can come up with suggestions, recommendations, reviews or we can share the books we have. :)

You can also find me on Goodreads (where the list is updated more frequently).

Improvisation

• √ Improv– Keith Johnstone
• √ Impro for Storytellers – Keith Johnstone
  
• √ Improvisation for the Theatre – Viola Spolin
• √ The Improvisation Game – Chris Johnston
• √ Long-form Improvisation and the Art of Zen – Jason Chin
• √ Dramatic Problem Solving – Steven T. Hawkins
• ◊ Tao Te Ching – Lao-tzu, Laozi
• √ Emotions Revealed – Paul Ekman
• √ Creative Facilitation – Viv McWaters, Johnnie Moore
• √ Dramatic Succes – Andrew Leigh, Michael Maynard
• √ Long form improvisation (Creating Spontaneous Communities Through Collaborative Comedie Performance) – Brad Fortier
• √ Improv yourself: Business Spontaneity at the Speed of Thought – Joseph A. Keefe
  
• ◊ And Then, You Act Making Art in an Unpredictable World – Anne Bogart
• ◊ Improvisation for actors and writers – Bill Lynn
• √ Truth in Comedy – Charna Halpern, Del Close (principles & rules of the “Harold”, stresses about honesty being the best policy in comedy, about being natural, focusing on situation humour not jokes, they give a lot of advise & “rules” for creating great scenes).
  
• √ Improvising Better: A Guide for the Working Improviser – Jimmy Carrane, Liz Allen (great book for fine-tunning scenes: states the problem and gives some exercises that can help fix it. Stresses about being specific, risk, make it interesting)
  
• ◊ The mime book – Kipnis
• √ Improvise – Mick Napier (not a fan of “the rules”, stresses that people tend to learn them and that stays in the way of a good scene, that the most important thing in improv is to do something, anything).
  
• ◊ No Acting Please – Eric Morris and Joan Hotchkis
• √ Group Improvisation. The manual of ensemble improv games – Peter Gwinn (Groupmind concept + exercises for bonding, focus, awareness, creation, energy, dynamics + party games & performance games)
• ◊ Lateral Thinking – Edward de Bono
• ◊ Improvisation for the Spirit – Katie Goodman
• √ Process. An improviser’s journey – Mary Scruggs and Michael J. Gellman
• √ How to Improvise a Full Length Play – Adams Kenn
• ◊ Improv! A Handbook for the Actor – Greg Atkins
• √ To sell is Human – Daniel Pink – recenzie
• ◊ Theatrical Improvisation – Jeanne Leep
• ◊ Believe me – Michael Margolis
• ◊ Creativity: From Potential to Realisation – Robert J. Stenberg & co.
• ◊ Essence of Creativity – Steven H. Kim
• ◊ Whose classroom is it anyway? – Ronald A. Berk
• ◊ The Improv Handbook – Tom Salinsky & Deborah Frances-White
• √ Acting: The First Six Lessons – Richard Boleslavsky
• ◊ Training to Imagine – Kat Kopett 
• √ How to start you own improv comedy group – Paul Johan Stokstad
• ◊ The Film Director’s Intuition – Judith Weston
• ◊ Causing a Scene – Charlie Todd & Alex Cordelis
• ◊ Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation  – Patrick Bateson

Business  / Entrepreneurship / Productivity

• √ Made to stick – Chip & Dan Heath – review
  
• ◊ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – James Collins
• √ Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t – Jim Collins – vu
• ◊ Managing by values – Michael O’Connor
• √ First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – M. Buckingham, C. Coffman – review
• √ Outliers: The story of success – Malcolm Gladwell – review
• √ David and Goliath– Malcolm Gladwell – vu
• √ 100 idei geniale de afaceri – Jeremy Kourdi
• √ Rework – Jason Fried – review
• ◊ 4 Hours Work Week – Tim Ferris
• ◊ Rewire your brain – John B. Arden – on going
• √ Linchpins. Are you indispensable? – Seth Godin – review
• √ Tribes – Seth Godin – review
• √ The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell – review
• √ Building Buzz – Marisa d’Vary – review
• √ A Whole New Mind – D. H. Pink – review
• ◊ Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• √ Out of our Minds. Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson
• √ Multipliers – Liz Wiseman – review

Human Resources

• √ Drive – Daniel H. Pink – recenzie
• √ 1001 Ways to Reward Employees – Bob Nelson
• √ Inteligența practică – Karl Albrecht
• √ People Skills – Robert Bolton, PhD

Antropology / How we function / How the world works

• √ Ishmael – Daniel Quinn – review
  
• √ The Story of B –Daniel Quinn – review
  
• √ My Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
• √ Marele plan – Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
• √ The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves – Dan Ariely
• √ Blink, The power of thinking without thinking– Malcolm Gladwell – review
• √ SWITCH, How to change things when change is hard – Chip and Dan Heath
• √ Predictably Irational – Dan Ariley – review
• √ On Being Certain – Robert Burton – review
• √ My Stroke of Insight – Jill Bolte
• ◊ Change your brain, change your life – Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
• √ Touching a nerve: The self as brain – Patricia Churchland – vu
• √ Social Psychology – David Myers
• √ The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg – review
• √ Mindset: How you can fulfil your potential – Dr. Carol S. Dweck – review
• √ Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb – (sort of a) review
• √ Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman – (sort of a) review

All sorts…