Some Of The Books That Influenced The Design Of Career OnDemand

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Simple nudges can significantly alter human behavior
• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
• You shape your network and then the network shapes you 
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• We have too much choice now-a-days. Simplify. Reduce.
• Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean by Roberto Verganti
• There are three types of innovation. Technology driven, customer driven and meaning driven.
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
• Markets are conversations. So is work.
• Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance  by Jay Cross
• Conversation is the best learning technology on earth.
• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• The crowd is almost always smarter than a smart individual.
• Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
• Everyone now-a-days have a lot of spare time at hand.
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
• A crowd can produce things more efficiently than organized labor.
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki 
• The crowd knows better.
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
• Crowd sourcing is important for businesses.
• Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters by Samuel A. Culbert.
• Performance management is about managing work not just staying compliant.
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
• An individual can organize almost as efficiently as an organization
• Flow - The Psychology Of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• People should be stretched enough that they learn but not so much that they quit.
• Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman.
• The changing nature of work requires people to be intelligent in a different way.