My Virtual Bookshelf
I am presently reading the following books:
The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - (also available in audio book format)
le manager agile: vers nouveau management affronter turbulence
Below are some of the most influential books I have recently read.
Category: Strategy, Organizational Development, and Communities
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
- Community: The Structure of Belonging
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (re-read November 2009)
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
- How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (January 2010)
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
- Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
- Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (July 2009)
- The Art Of War
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (October 2009)
- The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world (December 2009)
- The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (August 2009)
- The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter (November 2009)
- Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
(November 2009)
Category: Leadership, Team Management, and Coaching
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
- A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (January 2009) – Read my book review
- A Sense of Urgency (April 2009) – Read my book review
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- Coaching for Performance (January 2010)
- Emotional Intelligence
- Execution Premium
- First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
- How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules For Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
- Leader as Coach
- Leading Change
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace (August 2009)
- Outliers: The Story of Success (December 2008) – Read my book review
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- Positioning: The Battle for your Mind (June 2009)
- Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
- Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (May 2009)
- The Right Use of Power (August 2009)
- The Servant Leadership Training Course: Achieving Success Through Character, Bravery, and Influence (December 2009)
- The Toyota Way
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (October 2008)
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (October 2009)
- Winning (July 2009)
Category: Psychology, Philosophy, Negotiation, Meditation, and Communication
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Excuses Begone! (October 2009)
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (September 2009)
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Stumbling on Happiness
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (November 2008) – Read my book review
- The Accidental Buddhist (August 2009)
- The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters (December 2009)
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (October 2009)
- The Art of Meditation (October 2009)
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence (January 2010)
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
Category: Agile Software Development
- Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (December 2008)
- Agile Project Management with Scrum (November 2008)
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (January 2009) – Read my book review
- Managing Agile Projects (December 2008)
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (December 2008)
Category: Internet Marketing, Social Networks, and Web 2.0
- Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Message (December 2008) – Read my book review
- The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (June 2009)
- Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (November 2008) – Read my book review
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (February 2009)
- Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions (October 2008)
- Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means (September 2008)
- Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? (September 2008)
- Reality Check (May 2009)
- Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- What Would Google Do? (April 2009) – Read my book review
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
- Wikipatterns
Category: Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and Data Mining
- Agile Data Warehousing: Delivering World-Class Business Intelligence Systems Using Scrum and XP (November 2008) – Read my book review
- Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications
- Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide
- Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business
- The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
- The Numerati (December 2008) – Read my book review
Category: Usability and Dashboards
- Designing Web Usability
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
- Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
- Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations (July 2009)
- Universal Principles of Design
Category: Globalization, Economics and Anthropology
- A Brief History of Time
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Category: Consulting, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
- Flawless Consulting Set , Flawless Consulting
- Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
- The Google Story
The book I’ve read in November 2009.
http://analytical-mind.com/2009/12/04/books-ive-read-november-2009/
The book I’ve read in December 2009.
http://analytical-mind.com/2010/01/07/books-ive-read-december-2009/