Thursday, January 22, 2009

CIO Top Ten Business and Tech Books


Walk into a Borders bookstore and wonder what -- if any --new business books you should buy? CIO magazine has issued its take on the top 10 "must-read" business and technology books published in the past year.
Of particular note for yours truly was John Kotter's new book A Sense of Urgency. Kotter outlines specific tactics in how businesses can overcome complacency. Complacency in the middle of a recession is (of course) a potential business-killer, and given Kotter's outstanding work on change management, this would be a definite "must-have."
CIO also picks a range of tech-associated tomes, many focusing on what Social Media really means and how your company can integrate this established trend without losing your corporate shirt. One I plan to pick up is Billion Dollar Lessons -What You can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years. We've all seen the fall of MCI/Worldcom, Enron and now Lehman Brothers, so this should be a good, albeit not very happy, read.
For more information, go to: http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Books/Top-10-BusinessTech-Books-of-2008/?kc=CIOMINUTE01212009CIO1

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