Summer Reading Recommendations

At our recent Law Firm Leaders Roundtable, we spent the better part of two days with the chairs, managing partners and other senior lawyer leaders from several of our client firms. They learned about applying design thinking tools to drive innovation and value from Jen Leonard, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director of Future of the Profession Initiative, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. We discussed client feedback trends, and the group shared best practices and commiserated about the biggest challenges facing law firms today. It was a robust conversation. Throughout the two days, we received a lot of book recommendations, and as you know I love to read. So, here’s a great list to get your summer reading started:

• Change by Design by Tim Brown
• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity by Tom Kelley
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara

And some personal recent fun reads and favorite cookbooks:

• The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility by Heather Holleman
• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky   
• The Jerusalem Scrolls: A Novel of the Struggle for Jerusalem by Bodie and Brock Thoene
• Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro by Ellen Yin
• Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel by Alon Shaya