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Mid-July: McNeely, Ian & Lisa Wolverton. Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet. W.W. Norton & Co.,
2008. 9780393337716* (hdc, pbk pending)
End of July: Businessballs.com -
“Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for
people and organizations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England” -
about.
End of August: Godin, Seth. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Porfolio, 2008. 9781591842330 (hdc)
Mid-November: Shook, John. Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead. Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008. 9781934109205
To Be Determined: MacKenzie, Gordon. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace. Viking, 1998 9780670879830 (hdc)
To Be Determined: Raiffa, Howard, John S. Hammond, and Ralph L. Keeney. “The Hidden Traps in
Decision Making.” HBR Classic. Harvard Business Review. 84, no. 1 (January 2006).
I would like to add…
Is there something on your must-read list that you or your group would like to share? Please use the comment section below to suggest any additional items for discussion.
I would like to add – Fraser, Matthew & Soumitra Dutta. Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World. Wiley, 2009.
In the July/Aug 2009 issue of Online (p.63) a review of this book states “If you have ever wondered how social networking developed and where it could lead us, this is the book to read. You will never look at Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace with same way again.” It not only sounds relevant and interesting, but the reviewer also calls it “a dense, thought-provoking book.”
I’ll be reading *Free: The future of a radical price* by Chris Anderson over the next several weeks. Anderson is the author of *The Long Tail,* and in Free he discusses how companies are profiting from a business model that includes free products and services. Can libraries and information centers reverse engineer the concept and turn traditionally free business models into profit centers? Some models already exist for generating profits, but not many. I’m anxious to read Anderson’s thoughts and perhaps apply some of his lessons.