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Interesting Reading

I've found each of these books to have useful insights to business and personal situations

 

Title

Author

Good to Great

Collins

Tipping Point  Gladwell
The Universe in a Nutshell Steven Hawking

Skunk Works

Ben Rich

Competing on the Edge

Brown & Eisenhardt

Built to last

Collins et al

The Max Strategy

Dauten

Blur

Davis and Meyer

The Force

Dorsey

Killer App

Downes and Mui

Management of the Absurd

Farson

Telecosm  

George Gilder

Reengineering Revolution

Hammer

The Age of Unreason

Handy

Ecology of Commerce

Hawkins

The Virtual Community

Howard Rheingold

Clients for Life

Jagdeth Seth

The Wisdom of Teams

Katzenbach and Smith

Real Change Leaders

Katzenback

Way of the Guerrilla

Levinson

Lets Get Real (or lets not play)

Mahan Khalsa

True Professionalism  

Maister

The Trusted Advisor

Maister, Green et al

Managing the Professional Service Firm

Maister

Real Time McKenna
Next (the future just happened) Michael Lewis
The New, New Thing Michael Lewis
Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning Mintzberg

Death of Competition

Moore

The Second Curve

Morrison

The Global Paradox

Naisbett

Being Digital

Nicolas Negroponte

The One-to-One Future

Peppers and Rodgers

Drucker

Peter Drucker

The Loyalty Effect

Reichfield

Balkan Ghosts

Robert Kaplan

The Universe in a Nutshell

Steven Hawking

Coming of Age

Studs Terkel

Growing up Digital

Tapscott

Digital Economy

Tapscott