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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael Watkins
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Good for CEO or first time supervisor
Clear and concise action plan. Helps you think before just jumping in and running in circles.
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Amazing view of the human condition, really amazing!
If you have an interest in why we do the things we do that show little to no logic over and over again, this book will provide superior insight.
It tells us how and why choices (and too many of them) skews our vision and leads us to irrational behavior from lovers ...
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
Great Book
I thought this book was great although I didn't read the whole thing. It appears to confuse people because it attacks statistics while spending so much time examining them, but the title makes it clear that this is the intention of the book. This is an important point ...
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The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child (Sears Parenting Library)
Robert Sears
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
The Vaccine Book
Excellent book. Goes over all the vaccines, and what they are made of. I feel it was an unbiased book. It gives information so you can make an educated choice about vaccines. Worth reading and if you are a parent that has concerns, this book will help you. It will ...
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
You can tell your story more compellingly using simple drawings
Most business books fall into a few broad categories, and though this one might be lumped in the category of how to do presentations, it is really much cooler than that. I guess I find it so cool because I can't really draw a straight line with a ruler. My kids are ...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2007
In the Blink of an Eye
This book is a really quick read and easy to read. I enjoyed the anecdotes that pulled Gladwell's premise together. The ten million dollar Kouros fraud and the serial dating actually have something in common. Both use split second analysis to decide if the statue or ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2007
Interesting book to read...difficult to apply
I thought this book was a really interesting read, but it wasn't one where you can easily see how to apply what you read.
For instance, the author does a great job of demonstrating how random life can be...for example, the stories about the true risks of a Las Vegas ...
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, 2008
Something new under the sun...
Thaler and Sunstein pulled off something fairly rare and valuable in this book; they offered up a social/political idea that isn't currently being offered up by either the Republicans or the Democrats, but is still politically viable for either party. That's a good ...
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2002
Great resource
This book was an excellent reasource for team building. We used it on a couple off site meetings and it really helped get us moving towards working out our issues. It helps put everyone on the same page and eliminates finger pointing. I've loved all of his books so ...
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War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Douglas J. Feith
Harper, 2008
A Quartet; Terrorist, CIA, Dept State & Media
Wow this is an important definiton of managed major media news -- as well ad the agenda driven, risk adverse CIA and Department of State -- "Let's go along and get along, we will pay the consequences some other time" and "My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the ...
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Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002
Incredible, Insightful, Engaging
This book was an incredibly engaging book that required the reader to consider their current conduct in light of the realities of the material presented! Must Read.
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
eye opener
Some good information from a Republican, like Iraq war was about oil. Like the Bush administration spent more money on earmarks in 6 years that we have spent in at least 20. So much for fiscal conservatives.
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How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman
Mariner Books, 2008
Great shape, great service!
The book I ordered came promptly, was packaged well, and was in pristine condition. I was very pleased.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
Anchor, 2005
Smart, Interesting and Easy to Read
This book was a surprise hit for me. I didn't expect to like it, but ended up loving it so much I just had to have a copy on my shelf. Surowieki is very convincing, in part because he takes such care to bring up alternative arguments and respond to each. He also ...
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Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 1996
A MUST HAVE for your leadership library
Very well written book and easy to read and follow. Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.
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