Futurize Your Enterprise
by David Siegel
ISBN 0-471-35763-4 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Key concept:
Let the e-customer lead your e-business.
For the Love of the Game
by Michael Jordan
ISBN 0-609-60206-3 Crown Publishers, Inc.
Key concept:
"An incredible person, an incredible book."
Unleasing the Killer App
by Larry Downes and Chunka Mui.
ISBN 0-87584-801-X Harvard Business School Press
Key concept:
"Treat your assets as liabilities."
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates
by Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller.
ISBN 0-8050-5754-4 Henry Holt and Company
Key concept:
"Microsoft succeeds, despite itself."
The Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology
by Geoffrey A. Moore, et. al.
ISBN 0-88730-887-2 Harper Business
Key concept:
"Buy a basket of stocks that represent all companies that have a clear shot at being the gorilla. As the gorilla emerges, sell off the rest of the basket and consolidate your holdings in the gorilla."
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
by Harry Beckwith.
ISBN 0-446-52094-2 Warner Books
Key concept:
"People do not look to make the superior choice; they want to avoid making a bad choice."
Crossing the Chasm
by Geoffrey A. Moore.
ISBN 0-887-30-717-5 Harper Business
Key concept:
Need to successfully cross the chasms of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle.
Inside the Tornado
by Geoffrey A. Moore.
ISBN 0-88730-765-5 Harper Business
Key concept:
Read Crossing the Chasm and The Gorilla Game.
The Digital Economy:Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence
by Don Tapscott.
ISBN 0-07-062200-0 McGraw-Hill
Key concept:
"The economy for the Age of Networked Intelligence is a digital economy."
Manufacturing 2000
by William L. Duncan.
ISBN 0-8144-0235-6 Amacom
Key concept:
The materials used in production over the next two decades will consist of three major types:
- Physical raw materials
- Data
- Software
Total Improvement Management
by H. James Harrington.
ISBN 0-07-026770-7 McGraw-Hill
Key concept:
One chapter provides an excellent overview of ISO 9000.
Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition by Adrian J. Slywotzky
ISBN 0875846327 Harvard Business School Press
Key concept:
If you don't out-think your competition, you'll lose marketshare, or worse...
Who Owns Information?
by Anne Wells Branscomb
ISBN 0-465-09144-X BasicBooks
Key concept:
The title says it all.
Dave Barry in Cyberspace
by Dave Barry
ISBN 0-517-59575-3 Crown Publishers, Inc.
Key concept:
The DOS-based operating system is a challenge, rather than a pleasure. And Macintosh users are "wusses." See that icon in the lower right hand corner? Click it to see why Dave Barry could have more time for writing comedy...
You can order these books on the Web at Barnes and Noble. I had Amazon listed, but their patent suits are not good for Internet users. See: No More Pesos for Senor Bezos. Not an "affiliate."