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Built
On Trust
By
Arky Ciancutti, Thomas Steding
McGraw Hill, 2000 - 256 pages
The
key principles of the book are closure, commitment, respect,
responsibility, communication and speedy resolution.
I won’t go into depth about the principles but most
people don’t understand, including myself before I read
this, how each contributes to an organizations overall success
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Management
Challenges for the 21st Century
By
Peter Drucker
HarperBusiness, 2001 - 224 pages
Drucker
gets the "big picture" better than 99.9% of the
writers/people out there and his 60 years of writing/teaching
show how brilliant the man was, and still is at the age of
93. In this book Drucker asserts that the most important
contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is
similarly to increase the productivity of 'knowledge work' and
the 'knowledge worker. More
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One
Minute Manager
By
Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Berkley Pub Group, 1993 -
111 pages
Strangely the simplicity of the book is
deceiving. This book is good for those that are looking for a
quick read and who are either currently managing people or
wanting to manage people.
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As
The Future Catches You
By
Juan Enriquez
Crown Pub, 2001 - 256 pages
Mr.
Enriquez does an excellent job in talking about the importance
of education and how the large differences among certain
geographic regions may lead to a larger divergence of wealth
in the next century. The book is primarily about
genomics and its impact but 2-3 chapters discuss key issues
managers need to be fully aware of in the next century. More
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Good
to Great
By
Jim Collins
HarperCollins, 2001 - 320 pages
This
book is a study of companies that exceed their industry, the
overall stock market and produce PHENOMENAL returns over a
15-year period (15 of them are very “normal” years and the
next 15 years are full of explosive growth.) More
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The
Business of America
By
John Steele Gordon
Walker & Co., 2001-6th 285 pages
Managers can learn from the past because
human behavior clearly shows that man repeats past
errors. Those interested in American history or
economic history should enjoy this book.
I loved reading the book because Mr. Gordon’s work
clearly shows his in-depth knowledge of American history and
his excellent storytelling capabilities.
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Managing
in the Next Society
By
Peter Drucker
St. Martin's Press, 2002 - 352 pages
Managers can learn from the past because
human behavior clearly shows that man repeats past
errors. Those interested in American history or
economic history should enjoy this book.
I loved reading the book because Mr. Gordon’s work
clearly shows his in-depth knowledge of American history and
his excellent storytelling capabilities.
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Survival
is Not Enough
By
Seth Godin
Free Press, 2002 - 263 pages
The
entire book can be summed up in a very simple manner.
Evolve (change) or die.
The fittest company will win at the end of the day such
as the fiercest Lion will end up passing on his genes to other
lions. This is Darwinism applied to business and, while
the pace and buzzwords drove me nuts the first four chapters,
the book rapidly picked up significance/relevance in the
latter chapters. More
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The
Maslow Business Reader
By
Deborah Stephens
John Wiley & Sons, 2000 - 304 pages
If
you know about Abraham Maslow's heirchy of needs there isn't
much more of significant value in this book. I found
myself thoroughly yawning reading the book but, if you haven't
ever read about the topic buy this book and learn about
it. Maslow's heirchy of needs is standard MBA teaching
and important to understand human behavior. More
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