The Effective Executive in Action: A Journal for Getting the Right Things Done (Journal)4 reviews Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello Collins Business, 2005 The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker et. + Drucker lives on + The Effective Executive In Action + For the Reflective Practicioner             Extreme Programming Pocket Guide6 reviews chromatic O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003 Concise Intro to XP + XP Programming Starts Here! + Quick and dirty review + great summary, ties together complex topics from best sources + Very good concise guide...             The Geek Gap: Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each ...11 reviews Bill Pfleging, Minda Zetlin Prometheus Books, 2006 Insightful, timely, important in other contexts too + Great book, good read! + A good Read + This Book Promotes Understanding and Improved Communication + Suits and Geeks should read             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't701 reviews Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 Worth for its price + Good to Great review I don't need much to write here as hundreds of people has written review for this book. In simple terms the book is easy to read & understand. Analyze how best companies manage to retain their position by innovative & intelligent leadership. Research is sound & findings are really interesting. ...             Designing Interactions14 reviews Bill Moggridge The MIT Press, 2007 Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional + Great overview of interactions + Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción. Outstanding read about the history of how some of the things we use daily were conceptualized and designed. Moggridge interviews some of the coolest and relevant inventors of the modern (technology) era. The book hit a dry spell toward the end but finished strong. As a usability and design ...             The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)53 reviews Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2006 The Effective Executive Book Review + This is the best book on "Leadership" even after 40 years + If you have one shelf for books, this should be on it. + Excellent book on management skills + Long lasting advice for novice managers             PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites (Hacks)11 reviews Jack Herrington O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Solid, Quality Reference For Many Possible Uses + Nice broad book + quick "How to's ..." + Great resource             The Timeless Way of Building26 reviews Christopher Alexander Oxford University Press, 1979 Tao Te Ching of Architecture + Great review here! + Great information + The Mystical Architect             Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology23 reviews Paul Glen, David H. Maister, ... Jossey-Bass, 2002 Great for helping non-technical managers understand technical teams + Great addition for your inbox. + A New IT Workforce? If you're an IT manager, you should definitely have (and read!) a copy of the excellent book "Leading Geeks" by Paul Glen. It talks a lot about "common traits" of folks who are drawn to technology work, and what they mean from a management point of view, including how to leverage those traits to ...             Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies148 reviews Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras Collins Business, 2004 The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today + Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant + Built to Last + A Must Read Together With Good To Great + Stick to your core values!             Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture9 reviews David C. Hay Prentice Hall PTR, 2002 aggreed there is no OOA + Excellent textbook + It will broaden your horizons, but it is not a cookbook. OOA is some "super magic" that uml people found it for commercial reasons.As Mr.Hay mentions there is no OOA.there is only "analysis" of the bussiness. I am a bussiness owner and a coder for a long long time.The concept that david hay is talking about will take developers life time period to ...             SQL Pocket Guide (Pocket References)17 reviews Jonathan Gennick O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Great reference + SQL + sq reference + Great for quick answers to common questions + Very nice for remember details             Managing in the Next Society16 reviews Peter F. Drucker St. Martin's Griffin, 2003 The book is about our future, as it is clearly seen by a brilliant visionary + The grimm perspectives for Latin America In this book, Peter F. Drucker provided his assessment of social, economic, and organizational developments of the near future. It might be tempting to discount this important work as just another set of predictions. Yet, coming from Drucker, the insights contained in this book are realities rather ...             Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)16 reviews Edgar H. Schein Jossey-Bass, 2004 How to get leadership in proper alignment with organizational development + Schein does a fabuolous job on this topic! + Organizational Culture and Leadership + Great Service + Really a lesson about organization culture             TRUE PROFESSIONALISM : The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career15 reviews David H. Maister Free Press, 2000 Essentials Needed To Become a Successful Leader + True Professionalism + Maister Raises The Bar....Again! David Maister does a great job of explaining the fundamentals essential to anyone that has a job or is looking for a job in consulting. Splitting the book into three sections made it flow well and easy to follow and comprehend. Furthermore, Maister really focuses on the things that you should ...             A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)78 reviews Christopher Alexander Oxford University Press, USA, 1977 Wonderful! + This is not an end all to architectural problems. + no problems + Healing Our Industrial Age             The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions101 reviews Scott Adams Collins Business, 1997 The Best Collection of Newspaper Strips that I Have Seen! + How to survive in corporate industry + I almost died laughing whilst reading this book + Hysterically Funny             The Soul Of A New Machine56 reviews Tracy Kidder Back Bay Books, 2000 Start-up culture + Engineers are people, too! + Excellent View on an Old Topic + Good read + Tremendous piece of writing.             Images of Organization16 reviews Gareth Morgan Sage Publications, Inc, 2006 This book can profoundly change your thinking about orgs + Single Best MPA Book + Morgan Images of Organization + Most valuable read of my MBA             PHP in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))20 reviews Paul Hudson O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 excellent writing I bought this book after studying PHP with the author's online tutorials. They covered quite a bit of what was in the book but I enjoyed the online version so much, I decided to thank him for putting a free online version out on the net by buying his book. In addition, I like to have the hard ...