Just found? Well, not really. Two months ago - pls. read Mark Hurst's "Bit Literacy". Essential reading indeed...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
'Core Memory' and 'An Illustrated History'
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Guy Kawasaki recommends the computer vintage photography book by Mark Richards, Core Memory. So do we.
And we add: 5 years ago Taschen came out with a nice hardcover: "Computer: An Illustrated History" which has been one of our bedtime favorites since then.
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Tom Peters
25 years ago Tom Peters (#8) and Bob Waterman co-authored the classic "In Search of Excellence". The book resulted from an internal McKinsey assignment and the wish of the two consultants to present the findings in a structured manner to PepsiCo after a 700-slide presentation in front of Siemens management in 1979.
"You could boil all of Search down to three words: People. Customers. Action. That was about as far as you could get from the prevailing wisdom of the time, which you could also boil down to three words: Numbers. Bureaucracy. Control."
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"You could boil all of Search down to three words: People. Customers. Action. That was about as far as you could get from the prevailing wisdom of the time, which you could also boil down to three words: Numbers. Bureaucracy. Control."
View Tom's Confessions on FastCompany. And buy his books...
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Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter fits into the strategy content discipline of strategic management:
His main publications are "Competitive Strategy" (1980) and "Competitive Advantage" (1985) and he developed or applied the following concepts:
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- Strategy content: What? - Porter
- Strategy context: Where? - Andrew Pettigrew
- Strategy process: How, who, and when? - Henry Mintzberg
His main publications are "Competitive Strategy" (1980) and "Competitive Advantage" (1985) and he developed or applied the following concepts:
- 5 forces analysis: Threat of substitute products, threat of the entry of new competitors, intensity of competitive rivalry, bargaining power of customers, bargaining power of suppliers
- Strategic groups
- Value chain
- Generic strategies: Cost leadership, differentiation, and segmentation
- Positioning: Variety based, needs based, and access based market positions
- Business clusters: Geographical cluster, sectoral cluster, horizontal cluster, and vertical cluster
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Marty Neumeier
"When everybody zigs, zag." The Brand Gap. How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design.
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Don Norman
There is an interesting interview with Don Norman on c|net Newsmaker. Make sure to have a look and consider his books, a new one is available right now: The Design of Future Things.
Brilliant. Question c|net: "Younger people aren't getting it quicker? They just take the time to learn it?" Answer Norman: "That's what I think."
It's evident, you just never think about it ...
"Don Norman lives two lives: theory and applications. As a cognitive scientist, he studies, teaches, and writes about the relationship between technology and people. In his applied life, he helps companies make products that appeal to the emotions as well as to reason.
Business Week calls him a 'cantankerous visionary” - cantankerous in his quest for excellence. Upside Magazine named him one of the 'Elite 100' for 1999. Dr. Norman brings a unique mix of the social sciences and engineering to bear on everyday products. Although is a strong advocate of human-centered design and simplicity and perhaps best known for his book, The Design of Everyday Things, he now wants to ensure that products appeal to the emotions as well as to reason.
Dr. Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services."
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Brilliant. Question c|net: "Younger people aren't getting it quicker? They just take the time to learn it?" Answer Norman: "That's what I think."
It's evident, you just never think about it ...
"Don Norman lives two lives: theory and applications. As a cognitive scientist, he studies, teaches, and writes about the relationship between technology and people. In his applied life, he helps companies make products that appeal to the emotions as well as to reason.
Business Week calls him a 'cantankerous visionary” - cantankerous in his quest for excellence. Upside Magazine named him one of the 'Elite 100' for 1999. Dr. Norman brings a unique mix of the social sciences and engineering to bear on everyday products. Although is a strong advocate of human-centered design and simplicity and perhaps best known for his book, The Design of Everyday Things, he now wants to ensure that products appeal to the emotions as well as to reason.
Dr. Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services."
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Nick Carr
I just finished Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" last night. This is definitely essential reading for 2008! I have to admit that Nick Carr was one of the names in the Gillmor Gang 3 years ago I had never heard of ;) Waiting for a copy of "Does IT matter?" now.
Excerpt from the official book site: "A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off a chain reaction of economic and social transformations that brought the modern world into existence. Today, a similar revolution is under way. Hooked up to the Internet’s global computing grid, massive information-processing plants have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it’s computing that’s turning into a utility."
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Excerpt from the official book site: "A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off a chain reaction of economic and social transformations that brought the modern world into existence. Today, a similar revolution is under way. Hooked up to the Internet’s global computing grid, massive information-processing plants have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it’s computing that’s turning into a utility."
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Seth Godin
Two weeks ago Seth Godin's "Meatball Sundae" and Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" arrived as an international shipping here in Switzerland from amazon.com. I decided to go for IT versus business first and jumped into Nick Carr's vision of the Internet's global computing grid.
It's time for business now.
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Guy Kawasaki
I was reading "Selling the Dream" and "The Macinosh Way" in late 1995 - switching my interest from biophysics to all things Apple, marketing and the uprising internet. Searching for Guy Kawasaki at amazon.com does not lead to many results today, so please enjoy our collection ...
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Want a fresh perspective on UI design?
Stephen P. Anderson again.
Stephen's description: "Want a fresh perspective on UI design?
Look around. Not at other web sites or desktop applications but at other interactive media. Tivo, the iPhone, the Wii software interface, the ‘Sugar’ OS for the XO Laptop… there’s a world of new UI inspiration that is already being proven out in other devices— yet much of what we see in application design is more of the same.
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Star Wars Anyone?
Until now we have omitted 1 Stephen P. Anderson slideshow as there was Star Wars in the title - and I was not quite sure.
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Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions
As you might have noticed, I am sorting my bookshelf today. And I came across another must-order, must-have, must-browse, and must-read: Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions.
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Weird Ideas That Work
FastCompany: "Do you need a fresh start on creativity? Stanford professor Robert Sutton is a unique voice with an urgent message about how to generate and capitalize on new ideas."
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Michael Pollan
Following up on yesterday's presentation by Michael Pollan, Steve Yastrow pointed us to three books that everyone should read. Here they are. Thanks, Steve!
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Richard Dawkins
Let's stick with biology/ evolution for a moment and feature 4 Richard Dawkins books from the 70's to 90's.
From Wikipedia: "He first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme, helping found the field of memetics. In 1982, he made a widely-cited contribution to the science of evolution with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion."
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From Wikipedia: "He first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme, helping found the field of memetics. In 1982, he made a widely-cited contribution to the science of evolution with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion."
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The Fabric of Reality
From Wikipedia: "David Deutsch pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics."
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An Entrepreneur's Education
I devoured the first 120 pages of David Silverman's Typo last night. Be aware: This is not about typography or fonts. It's about a young business owner, mistakes to be made, and the school of experience!
Cited from the first page: We’ve all been in debt from time to time. Maybe you borrowed five dollars from a friend, or maybe you ran up something on your credit card you shouldn’t have, like a bread machine. Who needs a bread machine? If Armageddon comes, you won’t need a loaf of homemade rye. Or maybe you borrowed a couple million dollars to buy a typesetting company in the Midwest with your best friend and mentor and then watched it all go horribly wrong. Oh right, that was me… New York City, 2004
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Cited from the first page: We’ve all been in debt from time to time. Maybe you borrowed five dollars from a friend, or maybe you ran up something on your credit card you shouldn’t have, like a bread machine. Who needs a bread machine? If Armageddon comes, you won’t need a loaf of homemade rye. Or maybe you borrowed a couple million dollars to buy a typesetting company in the Midwest with your best friend and mentor and then watched it all go horribly wrong. Oh right, that was me… New York City, 2004
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Presentation Zen
You may have watched Garr Reynold's Talk@Google on Sunday. In case you want to get a grip on his excellent recommendations yourself, support this blog and order one of the books below:
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