Filip Cherecheș-Toșa

Follower of Jesus, husband, father, builder

Below is a compilation of books that helped to shape my worldview:

Daily reading and pondering

• God’s Word, aka The Bible

Non-fiction

• Culture Making
• How Will You Measure Your Life
• Good to Great
• Built to Last
• Halftime
• The Innovator’s Solution
• The Prosperity Paradox
• AI Superpowers
• The Culture Map
• Infectious Generosity
• Outlive
• The Nvidia Way
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else
• The Art of War
• Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever
• Outliers
• The Lean Startup
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
• The Motive
• The Five Temptations of a CEO
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Family life

• Stilul în care iubim
• For better or for kids
• What did you expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
• Parenting: The 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Bios

• Doom Guy
• Elon Musk
• Bonhoeffer
• Seven Men
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur (Richard Branson)
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny
• Hit Refresh (Satya Nadella)
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• Build
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Sci-fi

• Foundation
• Foundation and Empire
• Brave New World
• Ender’s Game
• The Martian
• Project Hail Mary