Business Books:
1) Digital Capital - Don Tapscott
2) Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey More
3) Inside the Tornado - Geoffrey Moore
4) Mind of the Strategist - Kenichi Ohmae
5) Essential Drucker - Peter F. Drucker
Mosy Influential Mgmt Books - Forbes List
1) In Search of Excellence - Tom Peters
2) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - James Collins, Jerry Porras
3) Reengineering the Corporation - Michael Hammer, James Champy
4) Competetive Advantage - Micahel Porter
5) Crossing the chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers - Geoffrey Moore, Regis McKenna
6) Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
7) The Six Sigma Way - Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, Roland Cavanagh
8) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fall - Clayton Christiansen
9) The Essential drucker - Peter F. Drucker
10) Competing for the Future - Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad
11) Good to Great: Why Some Companies make the Leap...and some others Don't - James Collins
Other:
1) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein
2) Chronicle of a death foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3) Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
4) Complete Poems of T.S. Eliot
5) The Dispossesed - Ursula Guin
6) Left Hand of Darkeness - Ursula Guin
7) My Son's Father - Dom Moraes
8) Harpo Speaks - Harpo Marx
9) Meditations - Maurcus Aurelius, Translated by Gregory Hayes
10) A Variety of Absences: The Collected Memoirs of Dom Moraes - Moraes, Dom
11) What Should I Do With My Life? - Bronson, Po
Career development ?! (ANZ)
Richard Bolles: "What Color is Your Parachute"
Duane Brown: "Career Choice and Development"
Stephen Covey: "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
Charles Givens: "Super Self"
Charles Handy: "The age of unreason"
Rob Parsons: "The Heart of Success"
Anthony Robbins: "Unlimited Power"
Paul Stevens: "Stop postponing the rest of your life"
Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander: "The art of possibility"
David Boyle's reading list
Leadership, Teamwork, Corporate Excellence and Learning Organisation:
* The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge
* The Fifth Discipline Field Book, Peter Senge et al
* A Force for Change, John P. Kotter
* Open Book Management, John Case
* Team Players and Teamwork, Glenn M. Parker
* Good to Great, Jim Collins
* Built to Last, Jim Collins & Jerry Porras
* The Agenda, Michael Hammer
Thinking & Problem Solving:
* The Fermi Solution, Hans Christian von Baeyer
* A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
* Principia Mathematica to '56, Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand
Russell (this is a short version that deals primarily with the foundations
of the logic from the original three volume set)
* A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram
Quality:
* Firing on All Cylinders, Jim Clemmer
* Why Things Bite Back, Edward Tenner (not really a book on quality,
more about why things go wrong)
* For a detailed and comprehensive view of Quality, the internet is
the best (and free) source. Go to www.quality.nist.gov for info on the
Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award and www.isixsigna.com/ca/baldridge/ for a
lot of info on the intersection of six sigma and Baldridge, including an
interesting link to a site that compares the Deming framework and Baldridge.
Strategy:
* Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter
* Product Strategy for High-Technology Companies, Michael E. McGrath
* The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
* Total Global Strategy, George S. Yip
Marketing, Ideas, Selling:
* Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson
* Jump Start Your Brain, Doug Hall
* Consultative Selling, MackHanan, James Cribbin & Herman Heiser
* A Passion for Ideas, Ed. Heinrich v. Pierer & Bolko v. Oetinger
General Business Books:
* The Portable MBA, Eliza G.C. Collins & Mary Anne Devanna
* Accounting Fundamentals for Non-Accountants, Stephen A. Moscove
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
My Favourite Books
Fiction:
1. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D.Salinger
2. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
4. Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
5. Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
7. There’s No Such Place As Far Away – Richard Bach
8. Nothing By Chance – Richard Bach
9. Roots – Alex Haley
10. English, August – Upamanyu Chatterjee
11. Anthem – Ayn Rand
12. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Ken Keasey
13. Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
14. Candide – Voltaire
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
16. Animal Farm – George Orwell
17. 1984 – George Orwell
18. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
19. Theatre - Somerset W. Maugham
20. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
23. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
24. The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
25. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26. Such a long journey - Rohinton Mistry
27. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
28. Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
29. Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
30. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
31. Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
32. The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
33. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
35. Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
36. The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Non-Fiction:
1. Nudist on the late shift - Po Bronson
2. Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collins & Dominique LaPierre
3. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard P. Feynman
4. Lust For Life – Irving Stone
5. The Passions Of The Mind – Irving Stone
6. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
7. The Monk and the riddle - Randy Komisar
8. Startup - Jerry Kaplan
9. McKinsey Way - Ethan M. Raisel
10. Two Lives - Vikram Seth
11. Winning - Jack Welch
1. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D.Salinger
2. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
4. Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
5. Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
7. There’s No Such Place As Far Away – Richard Bach
8. Nothing By Chance – Richard Bach
9. Roots – Alex Haley
10. English, August – Upamanyu Chatterjee
11. Anthem – Ayn Rand
12. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Ken Keasey
13. Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
14. Candide – Voltaire
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
16. Animal Farm – George Orwell
17. 1984 – George Orwell
18. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
19. Theatre - Somerset W. Maugham
20. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
23. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
24. The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
25. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26. Such a long journey - Rohinton Mistry
27. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
28. Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
29. Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
30. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
31. Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
32. The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
33. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
35. Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
36. The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Non-Fiction:
1. Nudist on the late shift - Po Bronson
2. Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collins & Dominique LaPierre
3. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard P. Feynman
4. Lust For Life – Irving Stone
5. The Passions Of The Mind – Irving Stone
6. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
7. The Monk and the riddle - Randy Komisar
8. Startup - Jerry Kaplan
9. McKinsey Way - Ethan M. Raisel
10. Two Lives - Vikram Seth
11. Winning - Jack Welch
Interesting Softwares
Here I list some of the interesting softwares I intend to try/have tried/would recommend:
1) Copernicus Desktop Search: Desktop search that is supposed to be good, especially because of its low/optimized CPU and memory utilization. Check it out here
2) Webaroo: Browse the net while beig offline! Created by an IIT Bombay incubated-startup, it involves downloading their s/w and "webpacks". Available for laptops and mobils devices. Would be great if they had a webpack for Wikipedia ! Check it out here
1) Copernicus Desktop Search: Desktop search that is supposed to be good, especially because of its low/optimized CPU and memory utilization. Check it out here
2) Webaroo: Browse the net while beig offline! Created by an IIT Bombay incubated-startup, it involves downloading their s/w and "webpacks". Available for laptops and mobils devices. Would be great if they had a webpack for Wikipedia ! Check it out here
First Blog
Ok...so here is my nth attempt at trying to maintain a blog. Hope this is more successful than all my earlier attempts in maintaining a website or a blog.
The intention is to maintain a diary of all the interesting things i think about and browse about...rather than make this a channel for my thoughts to the world. Dont really care about what the world thinks of me...I think.
Intention of this blog.
I intend to blog random thoughts, articles that I have read, bits of data and information I have gathered over time, my favourites, etc. etc. as part of this blog.
i.e. make it a true diary, as blogs are (were?) intended to be !
Happy reading !!!
The intention is to maintain a diary of all the interesting things i think about and browse about...rather than make this a channel for my thoughts to the world. Dont really care about what the world thinks of me...I think.
Intention of this blog.
I intend to blog random thoughts, articles that I have read, bits of data and information I have gathered over time, my favourites, etc. etc. as part of this blog.
i.e. make it a true diary, as blogs are (were?) intended to be !
Happy reading !!!
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