Euan Semple’s first book(of many I hope) has just hit the net in e-book format. It’s already on my iPad awaiting my next flight. I’ve known Euan long enough to know that it will be excellent even before I read it so I am recommending it now. I’ll follow up with a review later. – [...]
Tagged Euan SempleThe New Edge in Knowledge: How knowledge management is changing the way we do business, O’Dell, Carla and Cindy Hubert Carla O’Dell and her co-author, Cindy Hubert, have been tilling the fields of knowledge management since the earliest days of the notion. In their latest effort, The New Edge in Knowledge, they take stock of [...]
Tagged Knowledge ManagementMorry Fiddler is a friend and one of my personal trusted advisors. During one of our recent breakfasts, he recommended the following TED talk by Simon Sinek on how leaders inspire action. Since then, I’ve found myself weaving Sinek’s thinking into my own work and recommending it to others. I also made a point [...]
Tagged Organization, StrategySeveral years ago I became aware of the 50 books challenge. The notion is to set a goal of completing a book a week. I find it a good discipline and track my efforts internally using a program called Readerware. I write detailed reviews of a portion of those books here. I thought it might [...]
Tagged 50 booksGood Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst, Sutton, Robert I. I’m becoming a fanboy of Bob Sutton, an engineering professor at Stanford who co-founded the d.school there. It started when i read The Knowing-Doing Gap : How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, which he co-authored with organizational [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, management8 Things We Hate About IT: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to Form a New Partnership with IT, Cramm, Susan The tensions between business leaders and their IT counterparts remains an evergreen topic. Susan Cramm, a former CIO herself, weighs in on the topic in a way that’s revealing and productive in two ways. [...]
Tagged IT organizationCognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Shirky, Clay Anyone who can use lolcats to make a relevant and provocative intellectual point is worth paying attention to. Clay Shirky pulls it off in his latest book. Here’s his point: Let’s nominate the process of making a lolcat as the stupidest possible creative act…. [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, Social mediaThe Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, Brooks, Frederick P. Currently a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina, Fred Brooks led the development of IBM’s System/360 and its operating system. He’s the author of The Mythical Man-Month : Essays on Software Engineering, which remains one of the best books [...]
Tagged Design, Knowledge work, project managementThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Carr, Nicholas Nicholas Carr has a knack for framing provocative questions. In his latest book, he expands on an article he wrote for the Atlantic in 2008, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Provocative but unanswerable. When I was a young consultant, I would frequently get [...]
Tagged Carr[cross posted at FASTforward blog] Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal, Johnson, Mark W. What is a "business model" and can you create a new one in a systematic and disciplined way? That’s the question that Mark Johnson, chairman of the consulting firm Innosight, sets for himself in Seizing the [...]
Tagged Christensen, Design, Innovation
