Books That Matter
Citation
Stankosky, M. and Baldanza, C.R. (2018), "Books That Matter", 21 for 21, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-787-620181024
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited
A book is an effective way to communicate ideas, lessons, and experiences beyond their times. The following is a partial list that greatly impacted my thinking:
The General, C.S. Forester, 1978
Treats how senior leaders with unimaginative direction and total incompetence can lead to appalling slaughter and devastating national economic consequences.
The Systems Approach, C. West Churchman, 1968
One of the seminal books on the impact of systems thinking and the systems approach on addressing complexity.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge, 1990
Systems approaches that enhance learning in an organization.
Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, Thomas A. Stewart, 1997
Redefines the priorities of businesses demonstrating that the most important assets are the knowledge of workers and all the past experiences a company has in its institutional memory.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Edward O. Wilson, 1998
An original work of synthesis … to unify all major branches of knowledge under the banner of science.
The Story of Philosophy, Bryan Magee, 1998
The complete guide to 2,500 years of western philosophy, from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson, M.D., 1998
Deals with change and its effects on human and organizational behavior.
Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage, Bill Jensen, 2000
Treats how the ability to simplify complexity leads to competitive advantage.
Good to Great, Jim Collins, 2001
Research showing how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
The Wealth of Knowledge, Thomas A. Stewart, 2001
Reveals how companies are applying the concept of intellectual capital to the day-to-day operations to dramatically increase their success in the marketplace.
The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman, 2005
A definitive work on how globalization came about, and the technological advancements that spawned this revolution.
The Definitive Drucker, Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, 2007
A summary of the lifetime of insights by the Father of Management, narrated by Dr. Drucker himself (right before his passing) to Mrs. Edersheim.
Maestro, Roger Nierenberg, 2009
The incredible power of leading by listening.
The Corner Office, Adam Bryant, 2011
Indispensable and unexpected lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed.
- Prelims
- Introduction — Setting Expectations
- 1 — Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage
- 2 — If It Isn’t Broke, Break It!
- 3 — Leveraging Knowledge Is Power — Not Simply Sharing It
- 4 — Four Cs for the 21st Century: Codification + Collaboration + Convergence + Coherence = Success
- 5 — Codify — Codify — Codify!
- 6 — Connect the Dots; Connect the People
- 7 — The Gull Who Flies the Highest, Sees the Furthest — A Framework for Architecting
- 8 — Successful Engineering — Design It in
- 9 — Systems Engineering + Project Management = Success
- 10 — Successful Innovation Means Commercialization
- 11 — Search for Best-practices-to-be; Otherwise, Adopting Best Practices = Mediocrity
- 12 — Think Outside the Box — However, Remember You Need to Implement in It
- 13 — Secret of Successful Negotiations: Expand the Pie from the Outset
- 14 — It’s Not What You Know, but Who Knows You that Counts the Most
- 15 — Best Answers are Derived from the Right Questions
- 16 — Bring a Solution with Every Problem
- 17 — Successful Knowledge Management (KM) = Leadership + Organization + Technology + Learning
- 18 — Three Circles for Success: Objective + Resources + Legitimization
- 19 — Master Luck: Do Not Believe in Miracles; Rely on Them
- 20 — Avoid the Silver-bullet Approach
- 21 — Say What You Mean, and Mean What You Say
- CODAs
- Books That Matter
- References
- Endnotes
- Index