management

I’m Working While They’re Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions (review)

April 1st, 2012 by alephnaught

I’m Working While They’re Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions (review)

Title: I’m Working While They’re Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions Author: Erran Carmel, J. Alberto Espinosa Paperback: 186 pages Publisher: Nedder Stream Press (January 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983992509 ISBN-13: 978-0983992509 I’m involved in my fourth outsourcing effort, and this book is a must-read if you plan to off-shore. There are so […]

Book review: The Vested Outsourcing Manual

October 30th, 2011 by alephnaught

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 […]

Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing (review)

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 […]

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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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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April 8th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Wisdom of Crowds

Title: The Wisdom of Crowds Author: James Surowiecki Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (August 16, 2005) ISBN: 0385721706 In my quest to learn more about business (never ending it seems), I found this book referenced in one of the business-related RSS feeds I read daily. This is a really good book, I almost […]

September 11th, 2005 by alephnaught

Aligning the Stars

Title: Aligning the Stars Author: Jay W. Lorsch, Thomas J. Tierney Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; 1st edition (April 26, 2002) ISBN: 1578515130 This book is about how to align top performers in a professional services company. The PSF (Professional Services Firm) business model is based on helping the client make money, […]

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