Category Archives: Reading List

December 2008

Understanding New Media and Social Media

A Quick Guide for the Bewildered

Dan Wooldridge recommends a quick guide to new media and social media for InsideWork readers.

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September 2008

The History and Meaning of Debt

Understanding Debt as a Story

Dan Wooldridge recommends reading this article by Margaret Atwood on the history and meaning of debt.

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Six Frames | Signal-to-Noise

So maybe we can’t really — it seems impossible that I’m about to write this — maybe we can’t just take everything we read at face value…
I mean, who sends you those crazy internet gossip emails? I’ll tell who thinks of me when they read something no reasonable person would take seriously: It’s Christian friends [...]

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July 2008

Does Africa Matter?

InsideWork’s Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton’s, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.

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June 2007

Keith Yamashita & Sandra Spataro: Unstuck

A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World

You and your team are stuck. It happens as you pursue and tackle ambitious, challenging, and world changing ideas and projects. This book is a practical and fearless way to regain the momentum…and the fun!

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May 2007

Chip Ingram: Effective Parenting in a Defective World

How to raise kids who stand out from the crowd

How do you raise effective kids who become effective adults? Ingram presents principles and exercises to develop your child’s potential, values, and character while drawing closer to your child.

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Coach Don Nava: Fit After 40

Keys to Looking Good & Feeling Great

Achieving fitness after age 40 is tough. Nava outlines a total program — physical, directional, nutritional, emotional, mental, and spiritual. His success? People who follow his program stay with it 10 times longer than traditional programs.

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April 2007

Fred Kofman, MIT Teacher of the Year: Conscious Business

How to Build Value Through Values

Five breakthrough techniques: unconditional responsibility, unflinching integrity, authentic communication, impeccable commitments, right leadership

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Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future

Gardner outlines five premium thinking abilities: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.

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March 2007

W. Steven Brown: 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make

And How You Can Avoid Them

This is a book that has been in my personal library for twenty years. And though the advice given seems so basic in a universe of over-hyped business books, I am amazed that the same errors are still being made. I guess Coach John Wooden was right when he said that “excellence is the superlative [...]

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October 2006

David Warsh: Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations

A Story of Economic Discovery

David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith’s great work by a similar name down to the present day.

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David Batstone: Saving the Corporate Soul — and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own

Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out

Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.

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Pip Coburn: The Change Function

Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn

People will only change when the pain of their current situation outweighs the perceived pain of trying something new. Coburn uses this logic to explain the successes and failures of new technologies.

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September 2006

Barbara Stanny: Prince Charming Isn’t Coming

How Women Get Smart About Money

Barbara Stany grew up never worrying about money. As daughter to one of the founders of H&R Block, first her father, and then later her husband managed her money and cared for her…

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Jeffrey D. Sachs: The End of Poverty

Economic Possibilities for Our Time

A challenging vision for how world poverty can be ended in the next twenty years.

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Andy Kessler: The End Of Medicine

How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor

“Your doctor can’t be certain what’s going on inside your body, but technology will. Embedding the knowledge of doctors in silicon will bring a breakout technology to healthcare, and we will soon see an end of medicine as we know it.”

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