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New Book Review: "Employees First, Customers Second"

New book review for Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, by Vineet Nayar, Harvard Business Press, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. Putting employees first is an idea with which most are probably already familiar, the idea that putting employees first will bring benefits to customers. Putting customers

New Book Review: "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?"

New book review for Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?: An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions, by Patrick Leach, Probabilistic Publishing, 2010: If all executives and managers had backgrounds in statistics, this book would not

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition)"

New book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models for all Enterprises, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001: It is worth repeating what this reviewer indicated in his review of the second volume in this series of

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition)"

New book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models by Industry Types, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001: Although there are quite a few positive reviews for this series of three texts by Silverston, there are also

New Book Review: "Coders at Work"

New book review for Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, by Peter Seibel, Apress, 2009: Despite the title, which uses the term "coder" to describe the software developer, this 600-page series of 15 interviews by Seibel is actually quite fascinating. In the words of the

New Book Review: "Pragmatic Thinking & Learning"

New book review for Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, by Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008: Hunt states in the introduction that the goal of his text is to "help guide you through accelerated and enhanced learning and more pragmatic thinking", and that he is "

New Book Review: "Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships"

New book review for Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: Leadership in Professional Services, by Ross Dawson, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005: Well written and organized text on client relationships and the issues of dealing effectively with knowledge sharing and transfer in business. This book is a practitioner's manual that discusses key

New Book Review: "Under Control"

New book review for Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise (CA Press), by Jacob Lamm, Sumner Blount, Steve Boston, Marc Camm, Robert Cirabisi, Nancy E. Cooper, Galina Datskovsky, Christopher Fox, Kenneth V. Handal, William E. McCracken, John Meyer, Helge Scheil, Alan Srulowitz, and Robert Zanella, Apress, 2010: Copy provided by

New Book Review: "Life Balance"

New book review for Life Balance: How to Convert Professional Success into Personal Happiness - Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner (The Ultimate Consultant Series), by Alan Weiss, Jossey-Bass / Pfeiffer - A Wiley Imprint, 2009: This text is part of a 7-part series by the author called "The Ultimate

New Book Review: "Manage Your Project Portfolio"

New book review for Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, by Johanna Rothman, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009: Rothman's latest effort is all about how to create and use a project portfolio effectively. Note that while the author discusses how a collection of projects