Recommended Books: What Steve's Reading

Good To Great, by Jim Collins: Do you realize that "good is the enemy of great?" Do you think that your current software development performance is good because you manage to ship product more or less on schedule? Could your performance be great? Your thinking may be in the way of your greatness!
The Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker: Do you know what makes you effective? Not yet? Would you like me to work with you? Not yet? Get a copy of this book. Read it and take it to heart.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein: Software project management is a great deal of risk management. To do it effectively, it helps to know how we got to our present thinking about risk. For a historical account of how humanity handled its love/hate relationship with risk, read this book.

March 29, 2005	Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen
January 4, 2004	The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker?s Essential Writings on Management, by Peter F. Drucker Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, by Peter F. Drucker
August 14, 2003	What (Really) Works, by William F. Joyce, Nitin Nohria, William F. Joyce
May 16, 2003	Good To Great, by Jim Collins Do you realize that "good is the enemy of great?" Do you think that your current software development performance is good because you manage to ship product more or less on schedule? Could your performance be great? Your thinking may be in the way of your greatness! The Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker Do you know what makes you effective? Not yet? Would you like me to work with you? Not yet? Get a copy of this book. Read it and take it to heart. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein Software project management is a great deal of risk management. To do it effectively, it helps to know how we got to our present thinking about risk. For a historical account of how humanity handled its love/hate relationship with risk, read this book.
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