book+review category archives

On recommendation of a friend, I re-read Necessary But Not Sufficient, a TOC business novel. I rediscovered the rules for technology. And it gives me more to consider in my new job.

I took We All Fall Down with me on a business trip and found I couldn't put it down, once I had started it. That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.

Expert Product Management puts one spin on product management, providing a quick overview of several areas in which product managers play.

I was given a complimentary copy of Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints by John Ricketts. I am always interested in learning how people are applying TOC beyond the manufacturing sector, where it started.

I received a review copy of Personal Information Management edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan. It's a topic in which I have a great interest, so it makes sense for me to review the book.

I recently read a complementary copy of All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource by Curt Finch of Journyx. And then this afternoon, I had a nice conversation with Curt around the topics raised in his book as part of his Blog Book Tour.

I'm in the middle of reading Personal Information Management, Edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan. I am missing the typical graphics and drawings that books aimed at the major markets provide.

Jason Alba has taken a very conversational style with "I'm on LinkedIn - Now What?" He talks about his experiences using this tool, making the book read like he is sitting there with you, explaining the point of various features of LinkedIn.

Patrick Lambe sent me a copy of his new book, "Organising Knowledge -- Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness," after I mentioned that I would love a chance to dive into the book. Given the title, how could I not be curious.

The book for which my wife has written a chapter, A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science , is now available. And her chapter is excerpted on the information page online.

I picked up the audiobook version of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It's interesting to "read" this book after seeing all the buzz about the book when it first came out.

John Baldoni has a review of Frank Luntz' new book "Words that Work." I couldn't help thinking of The Leader with Seven Faces, as "what you say" is the first of these.

A review of The Leader with Seven Faces by Leandro Herrero.

I read Bruce MacEwen fairly regularly for pieces like this one, "Do the Management Gurus Have Clothes?" I see a link to Theory of Constraints in his discussion.

Sarah Elkins has posted her review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. The book looks like it needs to be on my list.