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Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Robert I. Sutton
Free Press, 2001
Productive New Concepts
+ Weird and Wonderful
+ Routine right and wrong
+ Not so weird ideas for innovation labeled weirdly
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
Management Take Notice
+ The Discipline - Not the Art
+ Outstanding
+ Thought provoking if nothing else.
+ Execute, Execute, Execute
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Another thought provoking work from Pfeffer
+ Great scientific evaluation of many management beliefs
+ Rigorous Research Put Into Practice
+ Better than the usual stuff
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins, 2001
A Book That Gets Down To Business
+ Who is on your Bus?
+ Excellent
+ The Bus, the BHAG and the Hedgehog!
+ GREAT!!!
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2000
Overcoming Inertia - Uniting New Knowledge with Action
+ Still the Best Book on Execution and Implementation
+ This book Is The Best of The Best!
+ Effectiveness, honesty, simplicity
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
North River Press, 2004
Goal Achieved!
+ College Student
+ The Goal review for Lean and Sigma
+ must read for manufacturing engineering student
+ Remember the Goal
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A Bias for Action
Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Penguin Books, 2006
An Executive Coach and Leadership Primer
+ One of best five books on effective self-management
+ Not Just a Collection of Cliches
+ Helpful advice without too much Harvard clutter!
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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
Robert I. Sutton
Business Plus, 2007
Great advice for dealing with jerks in the workplace
+ Right On The Money!
+ Merry Christmas to the CEO!
+ Should be mandatory for employee Orientation
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Good For All
+ Excellent tool set for people who need help getting organized
+ Easy to learn, difficult to master
+ Best of the best in time management
+ Sounds Good on Paper
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Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Gower Pub Co, 1997
Starting Point for TOC Applied to Projects
+ Goldratt Weaves Another Great Story!
+ Critical chain in the series.
+ Just as good if not better than "The Goal"
+ Enjoyable and useful
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2004
Excellent Business Book!
+ Play Where the Puck Is Going to Be
+ Strategic solutions for a familiar problem
+ Confronting Reality : Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
+ Look! A FOREST!!!
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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Unconventional Common Sense
+ Easier Said than Done
+ Maybe not as unconventional, but good
+ Awesome and True Business Management Book!!!
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A Bias for Action
Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
Penguin Books, 2006
An Executive Coach and Leadership Primer
+ One of best five books on effective self-management
+ Not Just a Collection of Cliches
+ Helpful advice without too much Harvard clutter!
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
North River Press, 2004
Goal Achieved!
+ College Student
+ The Goal review for Lean and Sigma
+ must read for manufacturing engineering student
+ Remember the Goal
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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Unconventional Common Sense
+ Easier Said than Done
+ Maybe not as unconventional, but good
+ Awesome and True Business Management Book!!!
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