- The HP way – Dave
Packard
Dave Packard who gives an insight of how he and his friend
Bill Hewlett built the Hewlett-Packard Company. Both of them started the
company in a garage, which was declared as the ‘Birthplace Of Silicon
Valley’. More than the company’s background the management
practices that was followed in the company became very famous and became
the popular ‘HP way’ of management. This books gives overview
of Management By Walking Around (MBWA), Management By Objectives (MBO),
Trust on individuals, which are building blocks of the HP way. This book
also explains how the inkjet printing technology was invented in HP, which
was an historic breakthrough in the area of digital printing.
- Six thinking hats –
Edward De Bono
Six thinking hats is a method, which can be applied to
any group, or individual thinking by which the thinking process can be made
in a parallel and more organized way of any given situation. The
‘Objective’ white hat thinking, ‘Negative’ black
hat thinking, ‘Innovative’ green hat thinking,
‘Positive’ yellow hat thinking, ‘Overall’ blue hat
thinking, ‘Emotional’ red hat thinking are the building block
of the six thinking hats. This book also gives an introduction about the
‘Lateral thinking’, which is more of innovative thinking and
suggests some methods for the lateral thinking.
- Men are from Mars women
are from Venus – John Gray
This book explains about the why men and women behave
the way they are. It starts with a small story what the men are from mars
planet and women are from Venus planet and the characteristics of the
people in that particular planet. Because of the very reason that the
people are from different planets they totally behave in a different way.
This book is a must read in order to understand the behavior of the
opposite sex.
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