This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum we’re building a think-week reading list. Here’s are details:

One smart thing I picked up at Microsoft was think-week. It started as something that Gates did: he took a week off a year to read all kinds of interesting papers and thoughts that he typically wouldn’t find time to read.

Not being Bill, I’d shoot for a think day. And tried to get my team to do the same: take an afternoon off at the coffee shop with the goal of reading items from a special “think-day” stack. (A good tip for any team).

So: Lets build the first ever pm-clinic think-week list.

Rules:

1. Nominate an essay, paper, or blog post that you think is important, and probably under-read by your peers on the list.

2. Books are allowed, but smaller units of reading preferred. Go for things that strike unusually deep at important problems, come from unexpected domains (film direction? building architecture?) or take an interesting approach.

3. A good think-week pile is highly diverse, challenging and fun to read.

Looking forward to seeing what you think belongs in the pile.

If you’re not on the pm-clinic list, you’re invited to make your nominations as comments – thanks.