Practice Library

The Practice Library brings together books and reference material concerned with entrepreneurship, leadership, management, strategy, innovation, teamwork and making. These sources inform the organisation, development and delivery of projects, contributing to Newtecnic's understanding of practice as a creative, technical and collaborative endeavour.

Entrepreneurship Practice

Entrepreneurial process

Harvard Business Review; Entrepreneur's Handbook (Copy) (Copy)

Philip Delves Broughton; How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (Copy) (Copy)

Chris Zook, James Allen; The Founder's Mentality (Copy) (Copy)

Eric Ries; The Lean Startup (Copy) (Copy)

Klaus Schwab; Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Copy) (Copy)

Scott Belsky; Making Ideas Happen (Copy) (Copy)

Scott Belsky; The Messy Middle (Copy) (Copy)

Entrepreneurial product

Peter F. Drucker; Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Copy) (Copy)

Rick Rubin; The Creative Act, A Way of Being (Copy) (Copy)

Steven Johnson; Farsighted (Copy) (Copy)

Steven Johnson; Where Good Ideas Come From (Copy) (Copy)

Ash Maurya; Scaling Lean (Copy) (Copy)

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits; The Lean Entrepreneur (Copy) (Copy)

Donald Miller; Building a Story Brand (Copy) (Copy)

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Leadership Practice

Harvard Business Review; Leader's Handbook (Copy) (Copy)

Edgar H. Schein; Organizational culture and leadership (Copy) (Copy)

Josh Kaufman; The Personal MBA (Copy) (Copy)

Michael E. Gerber; The E-Myth Revisited (Copy) (Copy)

Richard Koch; The 80-20 Manager (Copy) (Copy)

Simon Sinek; Leaders Eat Last (Copy) (Copy)

Simon Sinek; Start With Why (Copy) (Copy)

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Management Practice

Management guides

Harvard Business Review - Manager’s Handbook (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review - Project Management Handbook - Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez (Copy) (Copy)

Paul Roberts; The Economist - Guide to Project Management (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Better Business Writing (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Leading Teams (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Performance Management (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Project Management (Copy) (Copy)

Management thinking

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Business Model Innovation (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Change Management (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Communication (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Innovation (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Making Smart Decisions (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Across Cultures (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Yourself (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Mental Toughness (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategic Marketing (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategy (Copy) (Copy)

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Teams (Copy) (Copy)

Henry Mintzberg; Managing (Copy) (Copy)

Thomas DeLong, John Gabarro, Robert Lees; When professionals have to lead (Copy) (Copy)

David H. Maister; Managing the professional service firm (Copy) (Copy)

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Strategy Practice

Seth Godin; This Is Strategy (Copy) (Copy)

Seth Godin; The Dip (Copy) (Copy)

Seth Godin; The Practice (Copy) (Copy)

Seth Godin; The Song of Significance (Copy) (Copy)

Seth Godin; Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck (Copy) (Copy)

Seth Godin; This Is Marketing (Copy) (Copy)

Shane Parrish; The Great Mental Models Vol 1 (Copy)

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Business Practice

Culture

B Joseph Pine, James H, Gilmore; The Experience Economy (Copy) (Copy)

Ben Horowitz; What You Do Is Who You Are (Copy) (Copy)

Jeffrey Liker; The Toyota Way to Service Excellence (Copy) (Copy)

Simon Sinek; The Infinite Game (Copy) (Copy)

John Tennent; The Economist - Guide to Financial Management (Copy) (Copy)

Tom Peters; The Excellence Dividend (Copy) (Copy)

Tom Peters & Robert Waterman Jr; In Search of Excellence (Copy) (Copy)

Competition

Michael E Porter; Creating Shared Value (Copy) (Copy)

Joan Magretta; Understanding Michael Porter (Copy) (Copy)

Michael E. Porter; Competitive Advantage (Copy) (Copy)

Michael E. Porter; On Competition (Copy) (Copy)

Peter F. Drucker; The Essential Drucker (Copy) (Copy)

Roger Martin; The Design of Business, Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Copy) (Copy)

G. Richard Shell; Bargaining for Advantage (Copy) (Copy)

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Innovation Practice

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Dilemma (Copy) (Copy)

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's DNA (Copy) (Copy)

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Solution (Copy) (Copy)

Furr & Dyer - The Innovator’s Method (Copy) (Copy)

Scott D. Anthony; The Little Black Book of Innovation (Copy) (Copy)

Tom Kelley; The Art of Innovation (Copy) (Copy)

Tom Kelley; The Ten Faces of Innovation (Copy) (Copy)

Matt Ridley; How Innovation Works (Copy) (Copy)

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Teamwork Practice

Team conduct

James Clear; Atomic Habits (Copy) (Copy)

Susan David; Emotional Agility (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel Goleman; Emotional Intelligence (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel Goleman; Focus (Copy) (Copy)

Charles Duhigg; Smarter Faster Better (Copy) (Copy)

Charles Duhigg; The Power of Habit (Copy) (Copy)

Matthew Walker; Why We Sleep (Copy) (Copy)

Team discipline

Steven Kotler; The Art of Impossible (Copy) (Copy)

Adam Grant; Give and Take (Copy) (Copy)

Leonard Mlodinow; Elastic (Copy) (Copy)

Ray Dalio; Principles (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel Levitin; The Changing Mind (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel Levitin; The Organized Mind (Copy) (Copy)

Greg McKeown; Essentialism (Copy) (Copy)

Team productivity

David Allen; Getting Things Done (Copy) (Copy)

Thomas M. Sterner; It’s Just a Thought (Copy) (Copy)

Adam Grant; Originals (Copy) (Copy)

The School of Life, How to Think More Effectively (Copy) (Copy)

Adam Grant; Think Again (Copy) (Copy)

Jeff Sutherland; Scrum, The art of doing twice the work in half the time (Copy) (Copy)

Steven Pressfield; The War of Art (Copy) (Copy)

Team leverage

Daniel Kahneman; Thinking, Fast and Slow (Copy) (Copy)

Tom Kelley; Creative Confidence (Copy) (Copy)

Matthew Crawford; The Case For Working With Your Hands (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel H Pink; Drive (Copy) (Copy)

Matthew B. Crawford; The World Beyond Your Head (Copy) (Copy)

Daniel H Pink; When (Copy) (Copy)

Peter Sims; Little Bets (Copy) (Copy)

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Making Practice

Tim Ingold; Making (Copy) (Copy)

Tim Ingold; The Perception of the Environment (Copy) (Copy)

Bill Hammack - The Things we Make (Copy) (Copy)

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Jacob Bronowski; RIBA Lecture 1955 (Copy)

Interdisciplinary project management

Roman Pichler; Agile Product Management with Scrum (Copy)

Bernd-J Madauss; Project Management (Copy)

J K Yates, Daniel Castro-Lacouture - Sustainability in Engineering Design and Construction (Copy)

Daud Alam, Uwe Gühl - Project Management for Practice (Copy)

Nolberto Munier; Project Management (Copy)

Lincoln H Forbes, Syed M Ahmed; Modern Construction (Copy)

Ángel Medinilla; Agile Management (Copy)

Design quality management based on ISO 9001

J.L. Ashford; Management of Quality in Construction (Copy)

Paul Marsden; Digital Quality Management in Construction (Copy)

John S. Oakland, Marton Marosszeky; Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain (Copy)

Abdul Razzak Rumane; Quality Management in Construction Projects (Copy)

Tim Howarth and David Greenwood; Construction Quality Management (Copy)

Sui Pheng Low, Joy Ong; Project Quality Management (Copy)

Kenneth H. Rose - Project Quality Management (Copy)

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