Recommended Readings for SELP Participants
Below you will find suggested readings in systems engineering, systems thinking, leadership, project management, and related disciplines.
Author(s)
Title
| Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) | Center for Systems Engineering (CSE) Case Studies |
| Chris Argyris | Knowledge for Action |
| Peter L. Bernstein | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk |
| Susan Blackmore | The Meme Machine |
| Glenn E. Bugos | Engineering the F-4 Phantom II: Parts into Systems |
| Eric J. Chaisson | The Hubble Wars |
| James R. Chiles | Inviting Disaster |
| Jim Collins | Good to Great |
| Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Finding Flow |
| Dietrich Doerner | The Logic of Failure |
| Eugene S. Ferguson | Engineering and the Mind’s Eye |
| David Hackett Fisher | Washington’s Crossing |
| Malcolm Gladwell | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | Team of Rivals |
| J. E. Gordon | Structures: or, Why Things Dont Fall Down |
| Michael D. Griffin, James R. French | Space Vehicle Design |
| Michael D. Griffin | Speech: Two cultures of engineering, Purdue University, March 28, 2007 |
| Harvard Business School Press | Leading People |
| Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges | |
| Ivy Hooks, Kristin Farry | Customer-Centered Products |
| Stephen B. Johnson | The Secret of Apollo |
| Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine |
| Jeffrey Kluger | Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex |
| James Kouzes, Barry Posner | The Leadership Challenge |
| Gene Kranz | Failure is Not an Option |
| Mike Krzyzewski, Donald Phillips | Leading with the Heart |
| George Lakoff, Mark Johnson | Philosophy in the Flesh |
| AlexLaufer, Todd Post, Ed Hoffman | Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects |
| James R. Lucas | Fatal Illusions |
| Norman Maclean | Young Men and Fire |
| John C. Maxwell | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership |
| David McCullough | The Path Between the Seas |
| Howard McCurdy | Inside NASA |
| Faster, Better, Cheaper | |
| Brian Muirhead, William Simon | High Velocity Leadership |
| Charles Murray | Apollo: The Race to the Moon |
| Tor Nrretranders | The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size |
| Frederick Ordwary, Mitchell Sharpe | The Rocket Team |
| R. Pascale, M. Milleman, L. Gioja | Surfing the Edge of Chaos |
| Donald T. Phillips | Lincoln on Leadership |
| Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini | Inevitable Illusions |
| Charles Perrow | Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies |
| Tom Peters | Re-Imagine |
| Henry Petroski | The Toothpick: Technology and Culture |
| Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design | |
| Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering | |
| Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design | |
| Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer | |
| The Book on the Bookshelf | |
| Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering | |
| Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing | |
| Engineers of Dreams | |
| Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering | |
| The Evolution of Useful Things | |
| The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance | |
| Beyond Engineering | |
| To Engineer Is Human | |
| Arnold M. Ruskin, W. Eugene Estes | What Every Engineer Should Know about Project Management |
| Edgar H. Schein | Organizational and Managerial Culture |
| Organizational Learning in the 21st Century | |
| Organizational Learning as Cognitive Re-definition | |
| Three Cultures of Management | |
| Harrison Schmitt | Return to the Moon |
| Charles Percy Snow | The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
| The Two Cultures and a Second Look | |
| M. Mitchell Waldrop | Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos |
| Gerald M. Weinberg | An Introduction to General Systems Thinking |
| X-43A Mishap Investigation Board | Report of Findings: X-43A Mishap |