2008 Reading List

I started the current reading list back in December 22nd of 2007, and it’s getting a bit unweildy.  It’s time to move the finished items off the page and start new for 2009.  I’m pretty impressed with how much is there although I imagine the pace will remain slowed due to other priorities (errr..Remy).  It would be a shame to just erase all that evidence of edification, so here’s the books and articles of fair length that I’ve read over the past 369 days.   

Finished Books and Papers: 

• Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations. by Robert K. Cooper and Ayman Sawaf. *
• Can Leadership Be Taught?  Perspectives From Management Educators.  by Jonathan Doh.
• Executive Selection:  A Research Report on What Works and What Doesn’t.  by Valerie Sessa, Robert Kaiser, Jodi Taylor and Richard Campbell.  
• Everyday Leadership:  A CCL White Paper.  by Andre Martin. 
• The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing. by Dan Holtzclaw.
• Exercising Through Your Pregnancy. by James Clapp III, MD *
• The Kite Runner. by Khaled Hosseini. *
• The Black Swan. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. *
• The Last Empress. by Anchee Min. *
• HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method. by Marie Mongan.
• Your Money & Your Brain: How the New Science of NeuroEconomics Can Help Make You Rich. by Jason Zweig. *
• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. by K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer. *
• The Overlooked Managerial Competency: Observing Complexity of Information Processing (CIP) to Match People to Job and Determine Future Potential. by Glenn Mehltredder and Michelle Malay Carter. *
• Elliott Jaques Levels With You. by Art Kleiner. *
• The Leadership Practices Inventory: Theory and Evidence Behind the Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders. by Posner and Kouzes.
• Intentions and Systems Intelligence: Prospects For Complexity Research. by Ilkka Leppanen, Raimo Hamalaanen and Esa Saarinen.
• Natural-Born Intuition: How to Awaken and Develop Your Inner Wisdom. by Lauren Thibodeau, Ph.D
• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. by Ian Ayres. *
• The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition and Other Holistic Choices. by Aviva Jill Romm.
• The Natural Guide to Pregnancy and Postpartum Health. by Dean Raffelock and Robert Rountree.
• Birthing From Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation. by Pam England and Rob Horowitz.
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. by Ina May Gaskin. *
• Emotional Intelligence: Issues in Paradigm Building. From the book The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace by Daniel Goleman.
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. *
• Organization Design, Levels of Work & Human Capability: Executive Guide. edited by Ken Shepard, Jerry Gray, Jerry Hunt, and Sarah McArthur.
• Methodology, Metrics and Measures for Testing and Evaluation of Intelligence Analysis Tools. by Frank L. Greitzer.
• Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk. by Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn.
• Methodology, Metrics and Measures for Testing and Evaluation of Intelligence Analysis Tools. by Frank Greitzer.
• Bright From The Start. by Jill Stamm.
• Carolyn 101: Business Lessons From The Apprentice’s Straight Shooter. by Carolyn Kepcher and Stephen Fenichell.
• The Happiest Baby On The Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer. by Harvey Carp.
• House Of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time. by Martin Kihn. *
• Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth. by Jeannine Parvati Baker.
• The 8 Colors Of Fitness. by Katharine D. Myers.
• Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value. by Bill George.
• Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel. by Candace Pert. *
• The Genius of Flexibililty: The Smart Way To Stretch And Strengthen Your Body. by Bob Cooley.
• Finding The Perfect Bicycle Seat, 2nd Edition.  by Joshua Cohen.
• Leaders At All Levels:  Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis.  by Ram Charan.
• Facilitated Stretching, 3rd edition. by Robert McAtee and Jeff Charland.

Started & Discarded:

• Chaos: Making a New Science. by James Gleick. (too dense for me right now, maybe I’ll revisit some day when I’m feeling particularly brilliant)
• The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion and Spirituality with the Natural World. edited by Stephen Kellert and Timothy Farnham.  (not in the mood for that stuff)
• The Abilene Paradox: And Other Meditations On Management. by Jerry B. Harvey. (didn’t like it, repetitive and preachy)
• On Truth. by Harry Frankfurt.  (big words don’t make a person smart)
• The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit. by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham. (loopy)
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization. by Peter Senge. (good, but I had to get the book back to the library and I had a pending birth to contend with)

* Recommended Readings.  These are those items that I really enjoyed and would recommend to others.  Not that other items on the list are bad (some are OK and some are quite good), it’s just that they aren’t as memorable.

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