1. Das menschliche Betriebssystem

Psychologie, Einflussnahme und Kommunikation

  • Alchemy (Rory Sutherland, 2019)
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman, 1985)
  • Descartes' Error (Antonio Damasio, 2006)
  • Die neue gewaltfreie Kommunikation (Markus Fischer, 2021)
  • Doppelganger (Naomi Klein, 2023)
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie, 1936)
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini, 1984)
  • Interkulturelle Kommunikation (Dagmar Kumbier & Friedemann Schulz von Thun, 2006)
  • Kommunikologie (Vilém Flusser, 1996)
  • Miteinander reden 1-3 (Friedemann Schulz von Thun)
  • Motivational Interviewing (William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick, 1991)
  • Narrative Warfare (Ajit Maan, 2024)
  • Never Eat Alone (Keith Ferrazzi & Tahl Raz, 2005)
  • Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss & Tahl Raz, 2016)
  • Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Richards J. Heuer Jr., 1999)
  • Simulacres et Simulation (Jean Baudrillard, 1981)
  • Start with Why (Simon Sinek, 2009)
  • Status Anxiety (Alain de Botton, 2004)
  • The Status Game (Will Storr, 2021)
  • The Storytelling Animal (Jonathan Gottschall, 2013)
  • The Intelligence Trap (David Robson, 2019)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman, 2011)
  • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire (Luke Burgis, 2021)

2. Die Logik des Konflikts

Strategie, Krieg und Wettbewerb

  • Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business (Chet Richards, 2004)
  • Moralische Ambition (Rutger Bregman, 2024)
  • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Robert Wright, 1999)
  • Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Frans P. B. Osinga, 2006)
  • The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene, 2006)
  • The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene, 1998)
  • The Great Mental Models (Farnam Street, 2024)
  • The Hedgehog and the Fox (Isaiah Berlin, 1953)
  • The Prince (Il Principe) (Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532)
  • Thinking Like Marines (Michael D. Wyly, 1991)
  • Thinking Strategically (Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff, 1991)
  • Ultrasociety (Peter Turchin, 2015)
  • Warfighting (MCDP 1) (U.S. Marine Corps, 1989)

3. Das Handwerk der Nachrichtendienste

Täuschung, Profiling und Vertrauen

  • Be Exceptional (Joe Navarro & Toni Sciarra Poynter, 2021)
  • Left of Bang (Patrick Van Horne & Jason A. Riley, 2014)
  • Mitigating and Responding to Cognitive Warfare (NATO, 2023)
  • Nachrichtendienstpsychologie (Band 1-8) (Diverse Herausgeber)
  • Observation: Praxisleitfaden (Klaus-Henning Glitza, 2009)
  • Prinzipien zu effektiven Vernehmungen für Ermittlungen und Informationssammlungen (UN Human Rights Council, 2021)
  • Sell Like a Spy (Jeremy Hurewitz, 2024)
  • Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking (Christopher Hadnagy, 2010)
  • Source Handler Perceptions of the Interviewing Processes Employed with Informants (Jordan Nunan, et al., 2020)
  • The Art of Deception (Kevin D. Mitnick & William L. Simon, 2002)
  • The Behavior Operations Manual (Chase Hughes, 2023)
  • The Big Con (David W. Maurer, 1940)
  • The Code of Trust (Robin Dreeke, 2017)
  • The Confidence Game (Maria Konnikova, 2016)
  • The Ellipsis Manual (Chase Hughes, 2017)
  • The Rape of the Mind (Joost A. M. Meerloo, 1956)

4. Die Dynamik der Realität

Systeme, Komplexität und Steuerung

  • A Collective Blooming (Joe Lightfoot, 2020)
  • Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)
  • Chaos (James Gleick, 1987)
  • Children of a Modest Star (Jonathan S. Blake & Nils Gilman, 2024)
  • Complexity (M. Mitchell Waldrop, 1992)
  • Critical Chain Project Management (Lawrence P. Leach, 2000)
  • Cynefin (Dave Snowden, et al., 2020)
  • Exhalation (Ted Chiang, 2019)
  • Fuzzy Thinking (Bart Kosko, 1993)
  • Ganz im Gegenteil (Matthias Varga von Kibéd, Insa Sparrer, 2020)
  • How Big Things Get Done (Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, 2023)
  • Ishmael (Daniel Quinn, 1992)
  • Machine and Sovereignty (Yuk Hui, 2024)
  • Making Sense of Behavior (William T Powers, 1998)
  • Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott, 1998)
  • Soziologie verstehen (Thomas Kron und Christina Laut, 2021)
  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Gregory Bateson, 1972)
  • Tempo (Venkatesh Rao, 2011)
  • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Alexander R. Galloway & Eugene Thacker, 2007)
  • The Goal (Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox, 1984)
  • The Hidden Globe (Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, 2024)
  • The Logical Thinking Process (H. William Dettmer, 2007)
  • The Possibility of Life (Jaime Green, 2023)
  • The Symbiotic Planet (Lynn Margulis, 1998)
  • The Systems Bible (John Gall, 2002)
  • The Unbearable Slowness of Being (Jieyu Zheng & Markus Meister, 2024)
  • Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows, 2008)
  • Time in the Mind (Daniel Casasanto & Lera Boroditsky, 2008)
  • Understanding Variation (Donald J. Wheeler, 1993)
  • What Theory Is Not, Theorizing Is (Karl E. Weick, 1995)
  • Wholehearted (Mike Burrows, 2025)

5. Der Weg zur Meisterschaft

Entwicklung, Kultur und Leistung

  • Accelerated Expertise (Robert R. Hoffman, et al., 2013)
  • An Everyone Culture (Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey, 2016)
  • Business Slowdown (Svenja Hofert, 2022)
  • Deep Work (Cal Newport, 2016)
  • Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Powerpoint (Russell Davies, 2021)
  • Ich-Entwicklung für effektives Beraten (Thomas Binder, 2016)
  • Immunity to Change (Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey, 2009)
  • Mastery (Robert Greene, 2012)
  • Measuring Ego Development (Le Xuan Hy & Jane Loevinger, 1996)
  • Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process (Michael Basseches & Michael F. Mascolo, 2009)
  • Talent Development and Excellence (Albert Ziegler, et al. (Hrsg.), 2011)
  • The Confidence Gap (Russ Harris, 2011)
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin, 2023)
  • The War of Art (Steven Pressfield, 2012)
  • The Warrior Ethos (Steven Pressfield, 2011)
  • Why Motivating People Doesn't Work… (Susan Fowler, 2014)

6. Der deutschsprachige Nexus

Kontextuelle Spezifität

  • Business Slowdown (Svenja Hofert, 2022)
  • Die Anerkennung von Grenzen (Ramy Youssef, 2020)
  • Die neue gewaltfreie Kommunikation (Markus Fischer, 2021)
  • Ganz im Gegenteil (Matthias Varga von Kibéd, Insa Sparrer, 2020)
  • Handbuch Angewandte Psychologie für Führungskräfte (Eric Lippmann, et al. (Hrsg.))
  • Ich-Entwicklung für effektives Beraten (Thomas Binder, 2016)
  • Interkulturelle Kommunikation (Dagmar Kumbier & Friedemann Schulz von Thun, 2006)
  • Kommunikologie (Vilém Flusser, 1996)
  • Menschen durchschauen und richtig behandeln (Werner Correll, 1988)
  • Miteinander reden 1-3 (Friedemann Schulz von Thun)
  • Nachrichtendienstpsychologie (Band 1-8) (Diverse Herausgeber)
  • Soziologie verstehen (Thomas Kron und Christina Laut, 2021)