business
Book review: The Vested Outsourcing Manual
Title: The Vested Outsourcing Manual: A Guide for Creating Successful Business and Outsourcing Agreements Author: Kate Vitasek, Jacqui Crawford, Jeanette Nyden, Katherine Kawamoto Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (June 21, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0230112684 ISBN-13: 978-0230112681 A disclaimer – the author sent me a free copy of this book. I had read and […]
September 12th, 2011 by alephnaught
Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing (review)
Title: Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing Author: Kate Vitasek (Author), Mike Ledyard (Author), Karl B. Manrodt (Author) Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1St Edition edition (February 2, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0230623174 ISBN-13: 978-0230623170 I’ve gotten myself into another outsourcing effort. On the plus side, the company selected a vendor that […]
November 15th, 2008 by alephnaught
September 28th, 2008 by alephnaught
There may be value in sleeping on it after all
I’ve been fighting back against making snap decisions at the office. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I’ve found that I rarely had to make a fast decision, that gathering a little information and, most importantly, sleeping on it, or taking time out where I’m not directly thinking about the problem, aid […]
September 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
Competitive Strategy
Title: Competitive Strategy Author: Michael E. Porter Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Free Press (January 19, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743260880 ISBN-13: 978-0743260886 I found this book used at Op Amp Bookstore in Los Angeles. I figured this would be a good one to read, as it should help connect some of my IT strategy thoughts […]
February 17th, 2008 by alephnaught
Office Warfare: Strategies for Getting Ahead in the Aggressive 80’s
Title: Office Warfare: Strategies for Getting Ahead in the Aggressive 80’s Author: Marilyn Moats Kennedy Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Fawcett (October 12, 1986) Language: English ISBN-10: 0449210162 ISBN-13: 978-0449210161 I wish I’d read this book years ago – it explains a lot about the changes I’ve seen in the workplace over the last 20-plus years. […]
December 30th, 2007 by alephnaught
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
Title: The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street Author: Jonathan A. Knee Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 31, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0812978048 ISBN-13: 978-0812978049 I bought this book at the Phoenix airport on the way home from an interview (I didn’t get the job, bummer). Â This […]
November 11th, 2007 by alephnaught
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Title:Â Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence Author: Tim Parks Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton; 1 edition (May 15, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393328457 ISBN-13: 978-0393328455 I read this book while traveling to and from San Diego for an interview. The book is very interesting – it weaves the historical events […]
June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught
Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture
Title: Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture Hardcover: 409 pages Publisher: Ravel Media, LLC (January 15, 2004) ISBN-10: 1932881018 ISBN-13: 978-1932881011 I got this book from inbubblewrap.com ; another really good business book from them. This is the story of Neoforma, a medical equipment and supply company that was part […]
March 30th, 2007 by alephnaught
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Title: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Author: Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (December 28, 2006) ISBN-10: 1591841380 ISBN-13: 978-1591841388 This was a good book and worth the cost and time to read. The book begins with seven aspects of what Tapscott and Williams call “the collaboration economy”: Peer […]
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October 30th, 2011 by alephnaught