I am wrapping up work on Windows Vista and soon I will be working on the next release! But right now, I have been reading up some books which have been bestsellers for too long to ignore. So I finished Blink and Freakonomics and liked them both. Currently I am reading Survival of the Savvy, Never Eat Alone and The Marketing Plan (almost finished). The last book is a comic book that I highly recommend if you want to know what marketing is all about. Its available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Colour-Chartered-Institute-Paperback/dp/0750647590. I have also lined up a bunch of business/management books that I hope to cover in the coming months.
Speaking of which, does anyone know any must-read business/management books?
Books I am planning to read:
1. The Ten Day MBA
2. Winning
3. Good to Great
4. Getting things done (David Allen)
5. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
6. Emotional Intelligence
7. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Ram Charan et al)
8. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
9. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
10. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
11. The Essential Drucker
12. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
13. Crossing the Chasm
14. Competing for the Future
15. The Innovator’s Dilemma
16. Japan Inc
17. Crucial Conversations
18. The 48 Laws of Power
19. Getting To Say Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
20. The Long Tail
After this I have a second tier list of books as well:
1. Blue Ocean Strategy
2. Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
3. Startup
4. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
5. Jack: Straight from the Gut
6. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
7. The House of Morgan
8. The Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor
9. Den of Thieves
10. Liar’s Poker
11. Corporate Confidential
12. Guns, Germs, and Steel (not business related)
13. A Short history of Nearly Everything (not business related)
14. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (not business related)
Which means that by the time I am done reading, I will probably have grandkids…
November 8, 2006 at 9:08 am
Wow ! that is really long list. Must update my reading list now, presently reading two travelogues – “Chasing the Monk’s Shadow – mishi saran”, “Footloose in himalayas – Bill Aitken”. Latter was very inviting but turning out to be more of walking guide. Former has large # of pages dedicated to the confusion and wondering about what Xuanzeng would have done. Wee little bit too much of imagination required
. I guess I have read many of them….(short history – fast read focused on europe & new world), Guns – valiant explanation of effects of colonization and advent of technology.
Grandkids ? -
December 30, 2006 at 5:31 am
If you can’t get through that ambitious list, WikiSummaries can come to the rescue. http://wikisummaries.org/Main_Page
February 26, 2007 at 6:16 am
Hey What’s with the break? You have been off for quite some time now
May 14, 2007 at 5:29 am
when are you back?