Extracurricular Resources for My Students

In my recent experience teaching a capstone course for SFU Beedie School of Business students in the Business Minor program, my students requested extracurricular resources they could explore to extend and deepen their knowledge around certain areas of interest. This list is tailored for the audience of final-year undergraduate students with different majors including communications, engineering, criminology, education, psychology, and more. This post is published for reference by my students now that the semester has concluded.

1. Entrepreneurship

2. Technology and Innovation

3. Talent and Culture

4. Leadership and Management

5. Life and Career

6. Organizational Development

7. Sales and Negotiation

8. Design Thinking

Entrepreneurship

• The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber

• Good to Great, by Jim Collins

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz

• How's Work? with Esther Perel, by Gimlet Media

• Entrepreneur's Toolkit, by BDC

Technology and Innovation

• Zero to One, by Peter Thiel

• Crossing The Chasm, by Geoffrey A Moore

• The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries

• The a16z Podcast, by a16z

• Masters of Scale, by Reid Hoffman

Talent and Culture

• The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle

• Who: The A Method for Hiring, by Geoff Smart and Randy Street

• At The Table with Patrick Lencioni, by The Table Group

Leadership and Management

• Drive, by Daniel H. Pink

• Start with Why, by Simon Sinek

• The 5 Levels of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell

Life and Career

• Atomic Habits, by James Clear

• I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi

• Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio

• Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel

• Man's Search For Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

Organizational Development

• Built to Last, by Jim Collins

• Business Wars, by Wondery

• Holacracy, by Brian J. Robertson

• Scaling Up, by Verne Harnish

• No Mercy / No Malice, by Scott Galloway

Sales and Negotiation

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini

• Never Split The Difference, by Chris Voss

• Predictable Revenue, by Aaron Ross

• Start with No, by Jim Camp

• To Sell is Human, Daniel H. Pink

Design Thinking

• Don't Make Me Think!, by Steve Krug

• Obviously Awesome, by April Dunford

• The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman

• Economics Explained (YouTube)

• Gates Notes, by Bill Gates