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Review – One-Page Management
One Page Management, Riaz Khadem and Robert Lorber, Quill, 1998. This is clearly in the One Minute Manager family of books, and shares their style of having a good nugget of information wrapped in a...
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Review – Marketing High Technology
Marketing High Technology: An Insider’s View, William H. Davidow. Free Press, 1986.The examples are dated, but the message is not: this book is about the importance of market segments and selling a...
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Review – The Seven-Day Weekend
The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler. Portfolio, 2004.“Empowerment” has been a buzzword, but Semler makes it happen in his organization. He encourages people to make their own decisions and take the...
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Review – Designing Organizations for High Performance
Designing Organizations for High Performance, David P. Hanna. Addison-Wesley, 1988. A basic book in the area of Organization Development. Its theories operate at a cultural level as much as a process...
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Review – Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark. MIT Press, 2000.Modularity creates value both at the level of systems and at the level of organizations. Baldwin...
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Review – Revolutionizing Product Development
Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark. Free Press, 1992.Product management can work better by tailoring its approach to the reality of the project. Building a new...
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Review – Systemantics
Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, John Gall. Pocket Books, 1978. Peter Coffee recommended this in his keynote at Agile ’06, and I can see why. It’s a humorous look at how...
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Review – Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review. (Magazine).This almost-monthly magazine features interesting articles on the challenges of business. I particularly enjoy the case studies, where different experts comment on...
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Review – Micro-ISV
Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, Bob Walsh. Apress, 2008.Walsh defines a Micro-ISV as a small, self-funded internet business. This book touches on a number of topics, including programming, choosing...
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Radical Focus: OKRs (Review)
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, by Christine Wodtke. ISBN 978-0996006026. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a tool to help teams focus on what...
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