Edward Granger-Happ: Current Reading List

EDWARD GRANGER-HAPP
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CURRENT READING LIST

2008

My business reading list includes:

Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (latest book by the Nobel Laureate)
John Kotter, et al., Our Iceberg is Melting (a parable on change management)
Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos (a classic I am rereading)
Jim Collins, Built to Last, Good to Great, and Good to Great and Social Sectors (Classics I am rereading)
Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Forces for Good (a study of leading new nonprofits, modeled after Jim Collins' Good to Great work)
Stephen Bradley and Robert Austin, The Broadband Explosion (Robert spoke at the fall 2006 NetHope Summit)
Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman, The Corporate Mystic (I saw it on a bookshelf at Cap Gemini in DC and felt the title alone was worth the purchase)
John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (The new President of the Rhode Island School of Design)
Robert Austin and Lee Devin, Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
James A. Dator (Editor) Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education
James Canton, The Extreme Future (A futurist's view of the top trends to watch)
Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone (the consummate networker's tips)
Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind (Recommended to me by the chief innovation officer of a leading comminucations firm.)

My personal reading list includes:

Robert C. Solomon, "No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life" (a lecture series from The Teaching Company)
books of poetry by William Stafford, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, William Carlos Williams, Galway Kinnell and Donald Hall.
Dean Sluyter, The Zen Commandments
David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea (I'm parked in the middle of this and the Sluyter book and would like to finish them)
David Whyte "The Opening of Eyes; the poetry of intimacy and imagination."
Ranier Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
W. Sloane Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter, (Rilke and Coffin's books are models for one of my book projects)
Billy Collins, Ballistics, (the latest book from one of my favorite poets)

2007

My business reading list includes:

Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor
Ram Charan, Know How
Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Robert Austin and Lee Devin, Artful Making
C.K. Prahalad, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley, Broadband Explosion
Tom DeMarco, Why Does Software Cost So Much?
Sally McGhee, Take Back Your Life!
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics
Charles Handy, Gods of Management
David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Collaborating for Change: Appreciative Inquiry
Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
Chuck Martin, Coffee at Luna's
Jeanie Daniel Duck, The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin, Small Is The New Big
Mike Song, The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
Jerold Panas, The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards
Clayton M. Christensen and Don Leslie, The Innovator's Dilemma
Marcus Buckingham, Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Bob Lewis, Bare Bones Project Management: What you can't not do

My personal reading list includes:

David Wagoner, Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
Taha Muhammad Ali, So What: New & Selected Poems (With a Story) 1971-2005
John Wood, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Eugene C. Kennedy, 9-11: Meditations at the Center of the World
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

2006

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2005

My business reading list includes:

Marcus Buckingham, Now Discover Your Strengths
Stephen Covey, The Eighth Habit
Frances Hesselbein, Hesselbein on Leadership
Geoffrey A. Moore, Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition
John R. Patrick, Net Attitude
Rob Thomsett, Radical Project Management
David Whyte, The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

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2003

My business reading list includes:

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck – Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Melissa A. Cook – Building Enterprise Information Architecture: Reengineering Information Systems
Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explained

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For further information, please email Mr. Granger-Happ at ehapp at hpmd dot com (with the requisite anti-SPAM email address translation.)
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