A review of The Leader with Seven Faces by Leandro Herrero.
All in book review
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.
My wife contributed a segment to "A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science" to be published on 30 April 2007. Yipee!
I like coffee, so "Coffee: A Dark History" by Anthony Wild was a pretty sure bet as a gift. This book gave me lots of information to impress the people at my local coffee roaster as well as make sad about the "dark history" of the coffee trade that survives to this day.
A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.
I know I am a little late to the game, but I just finished the very enjoyable The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. I particularly liked the no-nonsense tone of the book. And I see some connection to theory of constraints, once again.
"They Just Don't Get It! (Changing resistance into understanding)" by Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin is a quick and entertaining read. It is written as a how-to manual, not unlike the top-seller "Who Moved My Cheese?"
A partial review of "Great Information Disasters'' from 1991. The book is a collection of "Twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune and business failure."
A review of Andrew Hargadon's "How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate." I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in the general topic of innovation as well as for Hargadon's insights on how people interact and even a few comments about knowledge management.
In my challenge to read anything this year, my Father's Day gift of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was so good I could barely put it down. For someone who enjoys numbers and math, I couldn't help wanting more: data, questions answered, and toys to do the analyses myself.
After hearing David Ticoll talk in November, I went out and picked up his book. Transparency in business is clearly an important topic, but it wasn't until the end of the book that I got the big picture via their examples.
People have changed the world ever since they figured out how to bash on things with sharpened rocks. This book covers the evolution of our tools over the eons, from the simple tools of our ancient ancestors to the sophistication of our scientific technique today. The bulk of the book is a fascinating tour of surprising revelations and connections between technological, political and sociological changes.
I am in the middle of reading The Axemaker's Gift: A Doubled-Edged History of Human Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein. I find it an interesting dovetail into my thinking about knowledge mangaement and the concerns we frequently hear about the over-selling of technical solutions to the general issues of...