Knowledge Sharing Resource Books
Sixteenth Masters Forum April 2008
Leading with Questions:
How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask
Author(s): Michael J. Marquardt
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published:
September 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7746-7
Book Description: In Leading with Questions, internationally acclaimed management consultant Michael Marquardt shows how you can learn to ask the powerful questions that will generate short-term results and long-term learning and success. Throughout the book, he demonstrates how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster outside-the-box thinking, empower others, build relationships with customers, solve problems, and much more.
Fifteenth Masters Forum October 2007
The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author(s): Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman
Publisher: Currency Books
Date Published:
October 2005
ISBN: 0385512077
Book Description: Filled with engaging stories of how companies such as Kraft, Samsung, and Procter & Gamble have incorporated IDEO's thinking to transform the customer experience, The Ten Faces of Innovation is an extraordinary guide to nurturing and sustaining a culture of continuous innovation and renewal.
Fourteenth Masters Forum April 2007
Know-How: The 8 Skills that Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't
Author(s): Ram Charan
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Date Published:
January 2007
ISBN: 0307341518
Book Description: How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Author(s): Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published:
December 2006
ISBN: 1591841380
Book Description: While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Author(s): Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published:
January 2007
ISBN: 1400064287
Book Description: Made to Stick is a book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures)–the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of “the Mother Teresa Effect”; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
Author(s): James J. Hartford
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published:
March 1999
ISBN: 0471327212
Book Description: A mysterious figure, virtually unknown even in his own country, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev masterminded not only the historic launch of Sputnik and the first intercontinental ballistic missile, but Yuri Gagarin's epochal space flight, and, ultimately, the Soviet attempt to beat America to the moon. Who was Korolev? Where did he come from? Why is so little known about him?
Eighth Masters Forum February 2004
Adaptive Software Development, A Collaborative Approach To Managing Complex Systems
Author(s): James A. Highsmith III, Ken Orr
Publisher: Dorset House
Date Published:
January 2002
ISBN: 0932633404
Book Description: To survive in today's turbulent e-business world, software project teams must exhibit adaptability, speed, and collaboration. Adaptive Software Development is targeted at software teams where competition creates extreme pressure on the delivery process.
What's The Big Idea?, Creating And Capitalizing On The Best Management Thinking
Author(s): Thomas H. Davenport, et al
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: April 2003
ISBN: 1578519314
Book Description: Change management. Reengineering. Knowledge management. Major new management ideas are thrown at today’s companies with increasing frequency-and each comes with evangelizing gurus and eager-to-assist implementation consultants. Only a handful of these ideas will be a good fit for your organization. Choose the right idea at the right time and your company can become more efficient, more effective, and more innovative. Choose the wrong one-or jump on the right bandwagon too late-and your company could fall hopelessly behind.
Seventh Masters Forum August 2003
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Author(s): Gary Klein
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: February 1999
ISBN:
0262611465
Book Description: Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Gary Klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced and documents human strengths and capabilities that so far have been downplayed or ignored.
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design
Author(s): Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg
Publisher: Dorset House
Date
Published: September 1989
ISBN: 0932633137
Book Description: Finally, here's an innovative book that gives you the understanding you need to give people the solutions they want. The collaborative team of Gause and Weinberg tells how you can assure the requirements are right — before the product is designed.
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
Author(s): Michael Useem, Warren G. Bennis (Introduction)
Publisher: Three
Rivers Press
Date Published: November 1999
ISBN: 0812932307
Book Description:
Unusual and inspiring, these nine dramatic stories about leaders who faced crises are intended for people not only in business but in all walks of life.
Sixth Masters Forum February 2003
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Author(s): Annette Simmons
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Date Published: June
2002
ISBN: 0738206717
Book Description: The next business revolution—using the power of stories as the ultimate source of influence and impact.
Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Author(s): Robert I. Sutton
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: October 2001
ISBN: 0743212126
Book Description: Creativity, new ideas, innovation — in any age they are keys to success, but in today's whirlwind economy they are essential for survival itself. Yet, as Robert Sutton explains, the standard rules of business behavior and management are precisely the opposite of what it takes to build an innovative company.
Unnatural Leadership
Author(s): David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published:
February 2002
ISBN: 078795618X
Book Description: Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The book describes the truth about being a real leader in a business environment turned upside down by e-commerce, diversity, security concerns, globalization, and matrix structures.
Fifth Masters Forum August 2002
The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
Author(s): Tom Demarco
Publisher: Dorset House
Date Published: July 1997
ISBN:
0932633390
Book Description: From prolific and influential consultant and author Tom DeMarco comes a project management novel that vividly illustrates the principles — and development team.
Work 2.0: Rewriting the Contract
Author(s): Bill Jensen
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Date Published: 2002
ISBN:
0738205699
Book Description: There is a coming war for talent -- no matter what the state of the economy or the job market may be -- and leaders who don't dedicate themselves to creating a people-oriented work environment, who don't understand the importance of intangible assets, may find themselves saddled with less productive employees, a less energetic corporate culture, and, ultimately, a less profitable business.
Competitive Leadership: Twelve Principles for Success
Author(s): Brian Billick, James A., Ph.D. Peterson, Andrea Kremer
Publisher:
Triumph Books
Date Published: June 2001
ISBN: 1892049503
Book Description: Brian Billick has shared his 12 personal principles for building effective leadership skills -- skills that took him to the top in football and that can lift you to the top in any situation. Billick will teach you how to use these principles in order to become an effective leader at all times, rather than a perfect leader in isolated situations.
Fourth Masters Forum February 2002
Essential Managers: Project Management
Author(s): A. Bruce, K. Langdon
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Date
Published: 2000
Book Description: From setting out objectives to compiling the close—down report, from choosing priorities to selecting the right team, Project Management shows you how to plan, run, and monitor a project, and explains what to do if things go wrong.
Six Thinking Hats
Author(s): Edward De Bono
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: August
1999
ISBN: 0316178314
Book Description: Using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing.
Managing the Dream: Reflections on Leadership and Change
Author(s): Warren G. Bennis
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Date Published: June
2000
ISBN: 0738203327
Book Description: A surprising, thought-provoking, powerful collection, the best essays from Warren Bennis, the world's preeminent writer on leadershipWarren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN: 0060521996
Book Description: In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.
The Art of Possibility
Author(s): Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
Publisher: Penguin USA
Date
Published: 2002
ISBN: 0142001104
Book Description: The Art of Possibility offers a set of breakthrough practices for creativity in all human enterprises. Infused with the energy of their dynamic partnership, the book joins together Ben's extraordinary talent as a mover and shaker, teacher, and communicator, with Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for creating innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
Third Masters Forum August 2001
All Hat And No Cattle : Tales of a Corporate Outlaw
Author(s): Chris Turner, Alan Webber
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Date Published:
October 2000
ISBN: 0738203661
Book Description: With a healthy dose of Texas humor, and with wisdom gained from experience on the front lines, she exposes much of what passes for management wisdom as baloney and offers fresh ways of thinking about organizations and the people who bring them to life.
The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism: A Quest For Purpose in the Modern World
Author(s): Charles Handy
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN:
0767901886
Book Description: In The Hungry Spirit, one of the most visionary business thinkers of our age offers a powerful argument for reexamining the role of work in our lives and discovering what we are truly meant to do and to be.
The Social Life of Information
Author(s): John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN: 1578517087
Book Description: In this paperback edition of The Social Life of Information, the authors dispel many of the futurists' sweeping predictions that information technology will obliterate the need for everything from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and burned by dot-com stocks, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published:
2000
ISBN: 1587243938
Book Description: According to Gladwell, the Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push start a fashion trend or cause the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnight or cause crime or drug use to taper off.
Knowledge Sharing East and West Meeting March 2001
Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives
Author(s): Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Hidden Spring
Date Published: 2000
ISBN:
1587680009
Book Description: Conversation explains what kind of talk charmed and excited people in the past and why we talk differently today. It explores the art and the history of conversation and how it can be the key to a happier, more interesting future. It shows how women have changed the ways lovers speak, how families avoid silence or boredom, how our work can damage or improve the way we converse and what role there is for the tongue-tied and shy.
Software Project Management: A Unified Framework (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Author(s): Walker Royce
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Date Published: 1998
ISBN: 0201309580
Book Description: Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from-the-trenches project management experience.
The Paradox Principles: How High-Performance Companies Manage Chaos, Complexity, and Contradiction to Achieve Superior Results
Author(s): Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Trade
Date Published: 1995
ISBN: 0786304995
Book Description: The high-performance organizations of tomorrow must learn how to deftly balance the tensions and conflicts that challenge the progress and effectiveness of any large enterprise. The Paradox Principles shows managers how to face those conflicts and use paradox as a dynamic tool to achieve balance, sharpen focus, and drive performance within the organization.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans, Planners
Author(s): Henry Mintzberg
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN:
0029216052
Book Description: In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. That is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and so dramatically.
Second Masters Forum 2000
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Author(s): Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN: 1578511240
Book Description: Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, well-known authors and teachers, identify the causes of the knowing-doing gap and explain how to close it. The message is clear-firms that turn knowledge into action avoid the "smart talk trap." Executives must use plans, analysis, meetings, and presentations to inspire deeds, not as substitutes for action. Companies that act on their knowledge also eliminate fear, abolish destructive internal competition, measure what matters, and promote leaders who understand the work people do in their firms.
Smart Business
Author(s): J. Botkin
Publisher: The Free Press
Date Published: 1999
Simultaneous Management: Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment
Author(s): Alexander Laufer
Publisher: AMACOM
Date Published: January 1997
ISBN: 0814403123
Book Description: Effective leadership
under simultaneous management requires flexibility and a manager open to all
channels of information, i.e., open to influence. Dr. Laufer has delineated
most of the characteristics needed for a manager to be a successful leader.
Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leadership
Author(s): Alexander Laufer, Edward J. Hoffman
Publisher: John Wiley &
Sons
Date Published: March 2000
ISBN: 0471360074
Book Description: Simultaneous Management blends classic project management theory with the experiences of successful practitioners in our real world. This revolutionary but highly practical book provides today's project managers with the tools and the confidence to deal with the conflicting demands and uncertainties that so often arise to undermine the most well thought-out plan.
First Masters Forum 1999
Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leadership
Author(s): Alexander Laufer, Edward J. Hoffman
Publisher: John Wiley &
Sons
Date Published: March 2000
ISBN: 0471360074
Book Description: Project Management Success Stories begins where most books on project management leave off-with the real-world experiences of professional project managers working without a net. From these stories and the lessons they teach, project managers emerge not as bureaucrats or technicians clinging to rules and formulas but as champions who challenge the status quo, set goals that extend the limits of their teams' capabilities, rely more on judgment and intuition than calculation, and are not afraid to take risks when necessary.
The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Author(s): Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hiro Takeuchi
Publisher: Oxford
Press
Date Published: May 1995
ISBN: 0195092694
Book Description: In The Knowledge-Creating Company, Nonaka and Takeuchi provide an inside look at how Japanese companies go about creating this new knowledge organizationally. The authors point out that there are two types of knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in manuals and procedures, and tacit knowledge, learned only by experience, and communicated only indirectly, through metaphor and analogy. U.S. managers focus on explicit knowledge; the Japanese, on the other hand, focus on tacit knowledge.
Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations
Author(s): Danah Zohar Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub
Date Published: November
1997
ISBN: 1576750221
Book Description: The healthiest organizations, like the healthiest minds, learn to respond and adapt to external stimuli through a well integrated union of all three structures rather than a single, rigid approach. Business models, however, primarily neglect emotional and spiritual components in their operations, placing emphasis instead on efficiency, results, and other qualities readily associated with the mental structure alone.
