Leading with Data

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	Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management  by Jeffery Pfeffer & Robert Sutton   -   Excellent book exposing popular management “myths” and providing tips on how to remain fact-based in your decision making.

	Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to be Smart by Ian Ayres   -   An excellent book with practical examples of how companies with extremely large data sets have changed the rules of strategy development and planning.

	Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris   -   A basic primer, with great examples, about how what it means to use data and analytics to drive decision making.

	The First Billion Is The Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future by T. Boone Pickens   -   Whether you agree with Pickens' style or not, he is a fantastic example of a data-driven leader. The book is filled with stories of how Pickens combined his understanding of his business with hard data.