VJ Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, The Other Side of Innovation
Nancy Lublin, Zilch: the Power of Zero in Business
Daniel Pink, Drive
Tom Peters, The Little Big Things
Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
My personal reading list includes:
Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith
2010
My business reading list includes:
Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
Tony Schwartz, et al.,The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Amelia Kohm, David La Piana, Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations: Mergers, Integrations, and Alliances
David La Piana, Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World
Robert D. Austin, et al, Adventures of an IT Leader
Dick Whitney, Melissa Giovagnoli, 75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work: Shake-Em-Up Questions to Open Meetings, Ignite Discussion, and Spark Creativity
David Straker, Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes
Chip and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (arguably the best book on organizational change in the last decade)
My personal reading list includes:
George Bilgere, The White Museum
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
David D. Corbett, Richard Higgins, Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50
Marc Freedman, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
William A. Sadler Ph.D., James H. Krefft Ph.D., Changing Course: Navigating Life after Fifty
Owen A. Barfield, G. B. Tennyson, A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
2009
My business reading list includes:
David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
Matthew Bishop, et al, Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World
David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott, World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories
Jean-francois Rischard, J. F. Rischard, High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, SuperFreakonomics
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Chip and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
John P. Kotter, Bill Weideman, A Sense of Urgency
Ram Charan, Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Holly Ross, et al, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders
Patrick Lencioni, Jack Arthur, Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
My personal reading list includes:
Ray Kurzweil Ph.D., Terry Grossman M.D., Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Burke Hedges, Steve Price, You, Inc. - Discover the C. E. O. Within!
Harry Beckwith, You, Inc.
Burke Hedges, The Parable of the Pipeline: How Anyone Can Build a Pipeline of Ongoing Residual Income in the New Economy
Jerry S. Wilson, Ira Blumenthal, Managing Brand You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Most Successful Self
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
George Bilgere, Haywire: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award)
2008
My business reading list includes:
Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (latest book by the Nobel Laureate)
John Kotter, et al., Our Iceberg is Melting (a parable on change management)
Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos (a classic I am rereading)
Jim Collins, Built to Last, Good to Great, and Good to Great and Social Sectors (Classics I am rereading)
Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Forces for Good (a study of leading new nonprofits, modeled after Jim Collins' Good to Great work)
Stephen Bradley and Robert Austin, The Broadband Explosion (Robert spoke at the fall 2006 NetHope Summit)
Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman, The Corporate Mystic (I saw it on a bookshelf at Cap Gemini in DC and felt the title alone was worth the purchase)
John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (The new President of the Rhode Island School of Design)
Robert Austin and Lee Devin, Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
James A. Dator (Editor) Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education
James Canton, The Extreme Future (A futurist's view of the top trends to watch)
Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone (the consummate networker's tips)
Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind (Recommended to me by the chief innovation officer of a leading comminucations firm.)
My personal reading list includes:
Robert C. Solomon, "No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life" (a lecture series from The Teaching Company)
books of poetry by William Stafford, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, William Carlos Williams, Galway Kinnell and Donald Hall.
Dean Sluyter, The Zen Commandments
David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea (I'm parked in the middle of this and the Sluyter book and would like to finish them)
David Whyte "The Opening of Eyes; the poetry of intimacy and imagination."
Ranier Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
W. Sloane Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter, (Rilke and Coffin's books are models for one of my book projects)
Billy Collins, Ballistics, (the latest book from one of my favorite poets)
2007
My business reading list includes:
Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor
Ram Charan, Know How
Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Robert Austin and Lee Devin, Artful Making
C.K. Prahalad, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley, Broadband Explosion
Tom DeMarco, Why Does Software Cost So Much?
Sally McGhee, Take Back Your Life!
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics
Charles Handy, Gods of Management
David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Collaborating for Change: Appreciative Inquiry
Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
Chuck Martin, Coffee at Luna's
Jeanie Daniel Duck, The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin, Small Is The New Big
Mike Song, The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
Jerold Panas, The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards
Clayton M. Christensen and Don Leslie, The Innovator's Dilemma
Marcus Buckingham, Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Bob Lewis, Bare Bones Project Management: What you can't not do
My personal reading list includes:
David Wagoner, Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
Taha Muhammad Ali, So What: New & Selected Poems (With a Story) 1971-2005
John Wood, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Eugene C. Kennedy, 9-11: Meditations at the Center of the World
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
2006
My business reading list includes:
William Bridges, Managing Transitions
Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
Tome Coens and Mary Jenkins, Abolishing Performance Appraisals
Stephen Denning, A Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Stephen Denning, Squirrel Inc.
Mark Lutchen, Managing IT as a Business
Rob Thomsett, Radical Project Management
Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross, IT Governance
Jack Welch, Winning
My personal reading list includes:
David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Po Bronson, Why Do I Love These People
William Sloane Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter
John Grisham, Bleachers
Jim Wallis, ed., A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2005
My business reading list includes:
Marcus Buckingham, Now Discover Your Strengths
Stephen Covey, The Eighth Habit
Frances Hesselbein, Hesselbein on Leadership
Geoffrey A. Moore,Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition
John R. Patrick, Net Attitude
Rob Thomsett, Radical Project Management
David Whyte, The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
My personal reading list includes:
Ann Lamott, Plan B
John A. T. Robinson, Honest to God
E.F. Schumacher, Guide for the Perplexed
David Whyte, Clear Mind, Wild Heart (CD program)
David Whyte, Midlife and the Great Unknown (CD program)
2003
My business reading list includes:
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck – Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Melissa A. Cook – Building Enterprise Information Architecture: Reengineering Information Systems
Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explained
My personal reading list includes:
Po Bronson – What Should I Do with My Life?
Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything
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