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March 21st, 2007 by alephnaught

American Commercial Banking: A History

Title: American Commercial Banking: A History Author: Benjamin J.Klebaner Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. (September 1990) ISBN-10: 0805798153 ISBN-13: 978-0805798159 This was a good introduction to American commercial banking; as a history it connects well with other books I’ve read about the history of American currency (which had a major impact on banking […]

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March 7th, 2007 by alephnaught

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Title: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Author: Chip Heath Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Random House (January 2, 2007) ISBN-10: 1400064287 ISBN-13: 978-1400064281 This is a really really good book – I’ve been using ideas from Made to Stick during my work day while I was reading it! It should come […]

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February 15th, 2007 by alephnaught

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder – How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

Title: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder – How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place Author: Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 3, 2007) ISBN-10: 0316114758 ISBN-13: 978-0316114752 I don’t remember how I found out about this book, […]

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January 14th, 2007 by alephnaught

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

Title: Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Author: Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson Hardcover: 234 pages Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (August 8, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1591398398 ISBN-13: 978-159139839 This is a great book once you have some knowledge of what architecture and strategy are. I think a […]

December 31st, 2006 by alephnaught

How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework

Title: How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework Author: Jaap Schekkermann Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Trafford (July 6, 2006) ISBN-10: 141201607X ISBN-13: 978-1412016070 This book disappointed me. There are some good recommendations, but there’s little empirical material to lend credence to the claims. And, over […]

December 15th, 2006 by alephnaught

Management of the Absurd

Title: Management of the Absurd Authors: Richard Farson and Micheal Crichton Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Free Press; Reprint edition (March 13, 1997) ISBN: 0684830442 I didn’t like this book at all. It contains a number of paradoxes related to management, but there are precious few ideas about what to do about them. The book brings […]

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November 29th, 2006 by alephnaught

More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business

Title: More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business Edited by: Todd Sattersten Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Astronaut Projects (October 25, 2005) ISBN: 097700483X This book was another free one from inBubbleWrap.com . This is a collection of nine stories by different authors having to do with complacency. I found the book somewhat lacking – […]

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October 25th, 2006 by alephnaught

Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO

Title: Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO Author: Gregory S. Smith Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Wiley (April 12, 2006) ISBN: 0471744786 I bought this book based on a short review in, I think, Fast Company magazine (which I recommend highly). I kind of wish I hadn’t…. The book is full of good career […]

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October 21st, 2006 by alephnaught

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Title: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization Author: Peter M. Senge Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Currency (March 21, 2006) ISBN: 0385517254 To set some perspective…. I’ve asked my team to read a book about either banking or business about every two months. We started with Execution; one team member told […]

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June 14th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law

Title: The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law Author: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 31, 2006) Language: English ISBN: 078798255 I won this book on http://inbubblewrap.com/ , which is a great web site (its a give-away site for 800ceoread.com, which is a great on-line […]

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