10 Book authors that influenced the Kanban Maturity Model the most

Kanban Maturity Model is a map to organizational agility. It explains how to improve the organization, its processes, and culture using the Kanban Method. Kanban Maturity Model is not a simple book. It pays great attention to the leadership and cooperation. That`s why you can find there a variety of practical insights about how people make decisions, why do they resist change, and up to the information about how the human brain works!

This book has collected the most important knowledge about all the pivotal aspects of leading the agility initiative. And yet, among the scope of material that formed the basis of the book, we can highlight the wisdom of the ten key authors and their twenty core books that most influenced the creation of KMM as we see it today.

Explore the Kanban Maturity Model books that influenced its creation below: 

1. Jared Diamond:
   • Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
   • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

2. Francis Fukuyama:
   • Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
   • Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity
3. Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
   • Incerto, the series of 5 books:
     • Fooled by Randomness,
     • The Black Swan,
     • The Bed of Procrustes,
     • Antifragile,
     • Skin in the Game

4. Ray Immelman:
   • Great Boss, Dead Boss.
5. Gerald Weinberg:
   • Quality Software Management,
     • Vol.1: Systems Thinking
     • Vol.4: Anticipating Change.

6. Tim Harford:
   • ADAPT: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
7. John Kay:
   • Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly.
8. Plato:
   • Republic
9. Aristotle:
   • De Anima (On the Soul)
10. Steven Pinker:
    • Enlightenment now (inspiration for 1.3 version of KMM)

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