"The Fifth discipline" by Dr. Peter Senge.Not a recipe-book, but a Thinking book. Why most people find it difficult to read? "The Fifth discipline": After struggling years with TQM, quality practitioners face more frustration than joy in their endeavour. Why? "The Fifth discipline": What is the relationship between System Thinking and ISO 9000 Quality System?
"Four Days with Dr. Deming" by William J. Latzko and David M. Saunders.Why most MBA courses do not teach Dr. Deming's management theories? What are the relevancies of Dr. Deming's teaching in today multitudes of management fads?
"Four Days with Dr. Deming" What are the similarities between Dr. Deming's teaching and Dr. Peter Senge's System Thinking.
"Towards the Learning Company" by John Burgoyne, Mike Pedler, Tom Boydell. What other authors say about LEARNING in a group : company, organisation or community
"Serious Creativity : Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas" and "Letters to Thinkers" by Edward De Bono.What about thinking about thinking about thinking? Isn't Creativity the missing piece in the frustrating journey of the Change Agents, Quality Practitioners?
"The Third Wave" and "Powershift" by Alvin Toffler
How Alvin Toffler, the greatest social thinker, gives us many useful concept / thinking model
for our direct application in our daily life, personal or organisational? Are you still going through the motion of life in a fragmented and snap-shot manner, reacting and fire-fighting, while obviously there is a pattern of order evolving that you are un-aware of? Is it possible that your understanding of "power" enslaves you, blinds your vision and makes you an unhappy person?
"Rethinking the Future : Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World"
by Rowan Gibson
What happens when you have several great thinkers giving their thoughts about the future, each from their own perspertive? Shake and Blend their thinkings as contained in the book, and take them as ingradients for your own Re-Thinking, What do you get?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stpehen Covey
When is a source of heat and warmth representing hope in an icy environment? Or do we still continue to believe that sunshine and summer never come in North or South poles?
Why and How 7-Habits hit hard wall? Most people get knocked
off before they hardly started practising the "habits"!
What Thinking Model for own practices can be derived from
Dr. Stephen Covey's books. When Reading becomes Thinking,
something good may happen to you!
Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny! by Anthony Robbins
"Power" : What POWER are you thinking? Unlimited Power?
The Age of Heretics by Art Kleiner What is the
difference between "Change Agent" and "Heretic"? Was Galileo the
Change Agent? But he was banished by the Church as Heretic!
Are you a Heretic or a Change Agent?
The Midas touch : money, people, and power from West to East by Anthony Sampson What will happen to this planet earth with millions of organisations, like the King who wanted everything he touched turned to gold, rushing towards Midas touch as the only mission in life (personal and organisational)?
The Borderless Society - Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy
By Kenichi Ohmae
The concept of "The Borderless World" contains how many dimensions? It is really up to your (our) imagination ....
Knowledge Organisations
KNOWLEDGE emphasis : To you as individual, what is Knowledge? What is Knowledge for? What is the relationship between Knowledge and your own personal goals / vision in life? What is your understanding of Knowledge in the context of what is happening around you, in your organisation, in the market, in the world and in this universe? .... With these Misteries in Knowedge, you explore other ideas of Knowledge of various authors.
Mastering Change : The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Business and Society
by Ichak Adizes
Highly recommended by a Cyberspace friend. Will do an in-dept review later
The Pursuit of Prime : Maximize Your Company's Success With the Adizes Program
by Ichak Adizes
Currently reading and reviewing the book
Corporate Lifecycles : How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It by Ichak Adizes
Lifecycles theory - organisation Vs human being!?
Discipline, Practice and Profound Understanding
A Collection of books / audio & video for making things happen by yourself,
not indulgence in mere ideas / concepts and expectation of others to do things.
The Disciplined Trader : Developing Winning Attitudes, by
Mark Douglas
How do you operate (survive) in an environment where you have no control whatsoever? An environment that can make you feel totally satisfied (e.g. very rich) or rack you life completely?
Corporate Tides:
The Inescapable Laws of Organisational Structure & The Path of Least Resistance
By Robert Fritz
What is the difference between System Thinking and Structural Thinking?
They have cousin-relationship : In what ways?
Visions - How science will revoluitonise the 21st century
by Michio Kaku
While we focus on management theories and practices, silently Science may be developing a highly sophisticated Frankenstein, to outsmart whatever new theories on management that we can possibly conceive of.
The Art of Systems Thinking : Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving by Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott
When "System Thinking" is no more mere theories or surface understanding, but an ART, something in your "hand", in your mind, in your own creation, .. that is the power you feel.
Net Gain : Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
by John Hagel, Arthur G. Armstrong
Is there a possibility of power shift from large organisation, or multi-national corporation, or political party or government to Virtual Community Organiser as an entity?
Synchronicity : The Inner Path of Leadership
by Joseph Jaworski, Betty S. Flowers (Editor), Peter Senge (Introduction), Sue Flowers (Editor)
"When things come together in an almost unbelievable way, when events that could never have been predicted seem remarkably to guide us along our path."
Learning Organizations : Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace
by Sarita Chawla (Editor), John Renesch (Editor)
"Fragmentation, competition, and reactiveness are not problems to be solved - they are frozen patterns of thought to be dissolved."
The Dance of Change by Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner (Editor), Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, George Roth, Bryan Smith Are we living in an era of chaos, constant change, uncertainty, not knowing the direction of our world? We certainly feel it in our organizational life!
Books on Stock Market Technical Analysis"Earth is Flat" and "Earth is Round" are two opposing theories. Believing in the former theory led to certain type of behavior (not daring to venture further into the horizon) and the later results in many adventures and discoveries.
Leading Beyond the Walls
by Frances Hesselbein (Introduction), Marshall Goldsmith (Preface), Iain Somerville (Editor) "Leadership within a cocoon" or "Leadership in & out of a cocoon"?
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
by Kees Van Der Heijden Trying to predict in this unpredictable world? Trying to make a long term plan in this world of uncertainty? When the efforts, with great sincerity and commitment, sees so futile, can organizations see some light in "Scenarios - The Art of Strategic Conversation?
Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
One of the readers of this homepage bought this book in this bookstore. I get attracted by the title and brief summary. Will purchase this book myself for further reading and LEARNING.
Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Learning to build a virtual community on internet ..... somehow leads to better understanding of how a real community is built, which we take for granted.
