Southworth Syllabus
2. 
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
by:
Chip Heath
4.12 avg rating — 24,091 ratings 3. 
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.25 avg rating — 33,874 ratings 4. 
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by:
Clay Shirky
3.83 avg rating — 5,774 ratings 5. 
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by:
Clay Shirky
3.78 avg rating — 7,139 ratings 
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You 4.04 avg rating — 4,596 ratings
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by:
Priya Parker
3.96 avg rating — 25,934 ratings 9. 
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by:
Jane McGonigal
3.79 avg rating — 8,270 ratings 10. 
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
by:
Annie Duke
3.82 avg rating — 21,782 ratings 11. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating — 15,075 ratings 12. 
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by:
Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating — 2,056 ratings 
15. 
Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
by:
Adam Brock
4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings 17. 
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Marketing in the Participation Age: A Guide to Motivating People to Join, Share, Take Part, Connect, and Engage
by:
Daina Middleton
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 20. 
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games
by:
Jane McGonigal
3.94 avg rating — 2,807 ratings 
23. 
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by:
David S. Evans
3.84 avg rating — 837 ratings 24. 
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
by:
Charles H. Vogl
3.69 avg rating — 1,001 ratings 25. 
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
by:
Rachel Botsman
3.97 avg rating — 1,329 ratings 26. 
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series) 3.97 avg rating — 9,947 ratings
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Primal Branding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future
by:
Patrick Hanlon
3.72 avg rating — 613 ratings 
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
by:
Eric Weiner
3.79 avg rating — 4,242 ratings 31. 
Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World's Greatest Companies
by:
Jim Stengel
3.65 avg rating — 332 ratings 
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The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by:
Ray Oldenburg
3.86 avg rating — 982 ratings 
35. 
The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-based Capitalism 3.66 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by:
Brad Feld
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,859 ratings 37. 
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by:
Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating — 4,775 ratings 38. 
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
by:
Alex Pentland
3.53 avg rating — 1,402 ratings 39. 
Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups
by:
Jim Stengel
3.35 avg rating — 52 ratings 40. 
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
by:
Al Ramadan
3.86 avg rating — 2,292 ratings 41. 
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change
by:
John P. Briggs
4.03 avg rating — 264 ratings 42. 
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage 3.80 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities 4.18 avg rating — 287 ratings
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by:
Gallup Press
3.94 avg rating — 41,319 ratings 50. 
Grace Meets Grit: How to Bring Out the Remarkable, Courageous Leader Within
by:
Daina Middleton
3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings 51. 
Funky Towns USA: The Best Alternative, Eclectic, Irreverent and Visionary Places
by:
Mark Cramer
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 52. 
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by:
Derek Thompson
3.90 avg rating — 6,887 ratings 53. 
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by:
Mark Wolynn
3.55 avg rating — 34,981 ratings 54. 
Get Big Fast and Do More Good: Start Your Business, Make It Huge, and Change the World
by:
Ido Leffler
3.76 avg rating — 216 ratings 55. 
The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking 3.91 avg rating — 348 ratings
56. 
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
by:
Yu-kai Chou
4.15 avg rating — 1,448 ratings 57. 
Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
by:
Ryan Holiday
4.15 avg rating — 3,442 ratings 58. 
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by:
Andrew McAfee
4.04 avg rating — 2,871 ratings 59. 
The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
by:
Stephen Denning
3.82 avg rating — 890 ratings 60. 
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
by:
Geoff Mulgan
3.41 avg rating — 121 ratings 
62. 
The Innovation Blind Spot: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas And What to Do about It
by:
Ross Baird
4.09 avg rating — 292 ratings 63. 
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by:
Ryan Holiday
3.77 avg rating — 11,012 ratings 64. 
What Should Think Tanks Do?: A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact
by:
Andrew Selee
3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings 65. 
The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance
by:
James G. McGann
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 66. 
The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite
by:
James A. Smith
3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 
69. 
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
by:
Elad Gil
4.07 avg rating — 2,734 ratings 72. 
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Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
by:
Bernadette Jiwa
3.85 avg rating — 663 ratings 75. 
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website
by:
Matt Blumberg
4.16 avg rating — 1,404 ratings 76. 
The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers
by:
Douglas Atkin
3.76 avg rating — 270 ratings 77. 
WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
by:
Craig Kielburger
3.58 avg rating — 105 ratings 78. 
Measure What Matters: Online Tools For Understanding Customers, Social Media, Engagement, and Key Relationships 3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Location Is (still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One
by:
David R. Bell
3.67 avg rating — 135 ratings 80. 
Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
by:
Anita Elberse
3.75 avg rating — 822 ratings 81. 
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.07 avg rating — 38,962 ratings 82. 
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
by:
Gary Rivlin
3.71 avg rating — 1,072 ratings 83. 
The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
by:
Lynn Stout
3.82 avg rating — 386 ratings 84. 
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by:
Eric Weiner
3.84 avg rating — 38,202 ratings 85. 
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by:
Jonathan Haskel
3.78 avg rating — 2,400 ratings 
88. 
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
by:
Andro Linklater
4.07 avg rating — 242 ratings 
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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
by:
Patty McCord
4.08 avg rating — 7,091 ratings 93. 
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
by:
Raj Sisodia
3.91 avg rating — 496 ratings 94. 
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
by:
Bob Chapman
4.04 avg rating — 1,149 ratings 95. 
Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a Flexible Workforce
by:
Rob Biederman
2.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 96. 
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
by:
Robert I. Sutton
3.60 avg rating — 9,304 ratings 
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by:
Safi Bahcall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,956 ratings