Books to be read

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