Books
These are
the books that I have recently purchased and am either
reading now or have recently finished.
A Whole New Mind : Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the
Future (Paperback) (by Daniel Pink)
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Currently reading during summer 2006. This book was
recommended by Dr. Felder (leading engineering education
scholar).
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...
and Others Don't (byJim C. Collins)
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Read this during November 2005. This book was
recommended by numerous people and it was recommended by
IIE in several different occasions.
The book was VERY
easy to read. The book takes a group of companies that
went from being good performers and moved to great and
sustained that growth. He has a service organization
companion reader that I have now read, very interesting
as well.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the
Twenty-first Century (by Thomas L. Friedman)
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Read this during the summer of 2005. This book was
recommended by numerous people .
It may be a fat
book, but it is extremely well written and good
information. The book was VERY easy to read. It many
very timely comments, and every time I thought he missed
the boat on something, in a later chapter he would
address my concerns (except for his Bush jabs). I now
HIGHLY recommend it.
Winning (by Jack Welch, Suzy Welch)
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Read this during the
summer of 2005. I really think if you read only one
management book, this should be the book.
He speaks
with common sense and clarity. He is a little full of
himself and does not even consider he may be even
slightly wrong or that there is another way, but what do
you expect with someone who was the 'bomb' for so long?
The chapter on balancing life is a bit funny as he again
shows his arrogance, but still has interesting comments.
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (by
Malcolm Gladwell)
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How we think (or think we think!) .
Read this during
the summer of 2005.This book was a fascinating read. I
would really like to look into more of the details of
the research (he provides references but I did not check
them out), but he makes some very interesting
observations of other's research. This will make you
think about how you (and others) think and how should
think. (Note that I have not read his other popular
book, "The
Tipping Point")
The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate
the Decade (by Michael Hammer)
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Read this during the summer of 2005.The latest book
by the author of Reengineering the Corporation .
This book was
pretty basic. It seems to be a rehash of stuff from his
previous book, "ReEngineering the Corporation," with a
little more management stuff thrown in that you can read
from other sources. I do NOT recommend this book.
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National
Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business (by
Clayton M. Christensen)
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Comes highly
recommended.
All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in
Joe's Garage (by William B. Miller, Vicki L. Schenk)
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Heard a lot of good
things about this.
The Ten-Day MBA : A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering
the Skills Taught in America's Top Business Schools (by
Steven Silbiger)
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If you wanted to have
a good overview of what MBAs know (or are supposed to
know) this is a good read. Be careful, some stuff is a
little stilted (there were some problems with the parts
I had knowledge of). But read it as an overview rather
than a text and it is very good.
The Measurement Nightmare How the Theory of
Constraints Can Resolve Conflicting Strategies,
Policies, and Measures (by Debra Smith)
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The April IIE Book
discussion book!
Zapp! : The Lightning of Empowerment : How to
Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
(by Jeff Cox(Contributor), William C. Byham(Preface))
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Excellent book on
empowerment. IIE March 2001 discussion book
Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal With
Change in Your Work and in Your Life (by Spencer
Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard)
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Best seller - parable
on dealing with change.
IIE February 2001 discussion book.
How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My
Fingerprints Are on the Knife? : And Other Meditations
on Management (Jerry B. Harvey)
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The local IIE chapter
had a book discussion group on this book.
Revised:
June 20, 2006.
Copyright © 2001-2005 by
Larry Whitman.
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