Re-discovering Parts of My Path to the Concept of Wirearchy
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 3:23PM I spent the bulk of the day yesterday doing something I have been meaning to do for at least 4 years now. I went looking for something in my storage space at the condominium where I live and, as always, I realized that at least half of my very full storage space consists of boxes of books that I have accumulated over the years( the ones I have decided to keep after weeding out (yes, honestly) those I would never look at again).
My storage space is a reasonably organized mess. However, I decided to sort it out at a fundamental level for once and for all .. or at least until the next time things accumulate to the point where it's not orderly. How anal of me. Oh, well ... most of the next two weeks are being spent getting ready to turn 55, and it feels like a reckoning of sorts, so it was as good an activity to dive into as any other. You have to start somewhere.
One of the first things I did was go through the boxes of books and sort them (and then either throw out or re-box) according to categories. The large majority of them are about organisations, organisational effectiveness, the sociology of organisations, HR practices and methodologies, new directions in management, the development of leadership, organisational and community development, work design, learning, and so on. You get the picture.
As I was doing this, I realised that at least I came by the concept of "wirearchy" honestly. In other words, I was primed to connect the dots when it began to be apparent (earlier in my case than in most peoples') that a massive shift was well and truly underway and would continue on.
I also decided to share my reading list from the last 15 years (not all of it but a decent portion) with my readers, mainly in order to make public the path of reading and thinking I took to arrive at where I am today.
Heh .. I also ran across acetates - acetates !!! - of a presentation I did to the National Grid Company (UK), titled "General Manager Competency Model", in October 1992. This was obviously before PowerPoint or other such programs were in widespread use. Acetates !!!
Further digging revealed all my old Hay Management Consultant manuals, with various titles such as:
- HRPD Competency Assessment Methods and Applications
- HRPD Marketing Materials Handbook
- British Petroleum Recruitment Focussed Interview Training Agenda - Instructor's Guide
- Managing Motivation For Performance Improvement - Instructor's Manual
Goodbye to all that stuff ! My, how things have changed .. for me, at least.
I'll appreciate any feedback anyone cares to offer, or suggestions of other books or articles I might find interesting.
Yes .. I did read them all.
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Powershift - Knowledge, Wealth and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century, by Alvin & Heidi Toffler
Receptors - New Knowledge About the Brain, by Richard Restak
The Plateauing Trap - How to Avoid It in Your Career and Your Life, by Judith Bardwick
Management Consultancy - The Inside Story, by Clive Rassam & David Oates
The Tao of Negotiation, by Edelman and Crain
Seizing the Future - the Coming Revolution in Science, Technology and Industry and How It Will Expand the Frontiers of Human Potential
Guide to the Management Gurus
Open Space Technology - A User's Guide, by Harrison Owen
Future Search - An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities, by Weisbord & Janoff
Productive Workplaces - Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning and Community, by Marvin Weisbord
Goal Analysis, by Robert F. Mager
Improving Performance, by Rummler and Brache
Working Harder Isn't Working - A Guide to the Four-Day Work Week, by Bruce O'Hara
Self-Directed Work Teams - The New American Challenge, by Orsburn, Moran, Musselwhite and zenger
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
1001 Ways to Reward Employees
Competence At Work - Models for Superior Performance, by Lyle and Signe Spenxcer
Reward Management - A Handbook of Remuneration Strategy and Practice, by Armstrong & Murlis
People, Pay and Performance, by Flannery, Hofrichter and Platten
Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Fisher and Ury
The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
In the Age of the Smart Machine, by Shoshana Zuboff
The Support Economy - Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism, by Zuboff and Maxmin
The Power of Passion, by Hobson & Clarke
The Future Consumer, by Frank Feather
The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack
Corporate Renaissance - The Art of Reengineering, by Cross, Feather and Lynch
Corporate Loyalty - A Trust Betrayed, by Grosman
Thought Leaders - Insights on the Future of Business, by Joel Kurtzman
The Age of the Heretic, by Art Kleiner
The 500 Year Delta - What Happens After What Comes Next, by Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor
The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business, by Wacker, Means and Taylor
The Deviant's Advantage - How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, by Wacker and Matthews
Built To Last - Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by Jim Collins & Gerry Porras
The Unfinished Revolution - Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us, by Michael Dertouzos
Rethinking the Future, by Rowan Gibson
Learning As A Way of Being - Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water, by Peter Vaill
The World According to Peter Drucker, by Beatty
The Collected Papers of Roger Harrison, foreword by Edgar Schein
Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization, by Johansen & swigart
The Empty Raincoat - Making Sense of the Future, by Charles Handy
The Stakeholder Strategy - Profiting From Collaborative Business Relationships, by Anne Svendsen
Leadership Jazz, by Max Depree
When Giants Learn To Dance - Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management and Careers in the 1990's, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
The Twenty-year Century - Essays on Economics and Public Finance, by Felix Rohatyn
Discovering Common Ground - Future Search Conferences, by Marvin Weisbord et al
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - A Field Guide, by Peter Senge et al
The Organization of the Future, by Hesselbein, Goldsmith & Beckhard
Working Wisdom - Skills and Strategies for Learning Organizations, by Aubry & Cohen
The Fifth Discipline - The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Ssenge
Complexity - the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by M. Waldrop
The Quark and The Jaguar - Adventures in the Simple and the Complex, by Murray Gell-Mann
The Anatomy of Buzz - How to Create Word of Mouth Marketing, by Rosen
Crossing the Chasm - Marketing and Selling High-tech Products to Mainstream Customers, by Geoffrey Moore
The New Deal at Work - Managing the Market-Driven Workforce, by Peter Cappelli
Harnessing Complexity - Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier, by Axelrod & Cohen
Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Bossidy & Charan
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, by Alan Cooper
Organization 2000 - The Essential Guide for Companies and Teams in the New Economy, by Leslie Bendaly
When Things Start to Think, by Neil Gershenfeld
The Monster Under The Bed, by Stan Davis and Jim Botkin
Future Perfect, by Stan Davis
It's Alive - The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business, by Stan Davis & Chris Meyer
Blur, by Stan Davis & Chris Meyer
Net Attitude, by John Patrick
Leadership From Within, by Peter Urs-Bender
Leading the Revolution, by Gary Hamel
The Future of Management, by Gary Hamel
Trends 2000 - How to Prepare for and Profit From the Changes of the 21st Century, by Gerald Celente
The Age of Participation - New Governance for the Workplace and the World, by Patricia McLagan and Christo Nel
Intelligence Reframed - Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century, by Howard Gardiner
Managing for the Future, by Peter Drucker
The Age of Unreason, by Charles Handy
The Empty Raincoat, by Charles Handy
Reclaiming Higher Ground, by Lance Secretan
Knowledge For Action, by Chris Argyris
The Competent Manager, by Richard Boyatzis
Principles of Systems, by Jay Forrester
Urban Dynamics, by Jay Forrester
World Dynamics, by Jay Forrester
High Tech, High Touch - Technology and our Accelerated Search for Meaning, by John Naisbitt
The Empowered Manager - Positive Political Skills at Work, by Peter Block
Toppling the Pyramids - Re-defining the Way Companies Are Run, Gerald Ross & Michael Kay
Learning Organizations - Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace, by Sarit Chawla and John Renesch
Post-Capitalist Society, by Peter Drucker
Fad Surfing in the Boardroom - Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers, by Eileen Shapiro
The Turning Point, by Fritjof Capra
Synchronicity - the Inner Path of Leadership, by Joe Jjaworski
The Collaborative Enterprise - Why Links Between Business Units Often Fail and How to Make Them Work, by Andrew Campbell and Michael Goold
Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture, by David Maister
The Trusted Advisor, by David Maister
Stewardship - Choosing Service Over Self-Interest, by Peter Block
The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus - 10 Thinkers Who Really Made a Difference, by S. Crainer
Orbiting the Giant Hairball - A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace, by Ian Mackenzie
Crisis & Renewal - Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change, by Hurst
Digital Game-based Learning, by Marc Prensky
Thinking In The Future Tense - A Workout for the Mind, by Jennifer James
Survival Is Not Enough - Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change, by Seth Godin
Rekindling Commitment - How To Revitalize Yourself, Your Work and Your Organization, by Jaffe, Scott and Tobe
The Ingenuity Gap - How Can We Solve The Problems of the Future ?, by Thomas Homer-Dixon
de Bono's Thinking Course, by Edward de Bono
Digital Aboriginal - The Direction of Business Now - Instinctive, Nomadic and Ever-changing, by Tarlow & Tarlow
The Art of the Long View, by Peter Schwartz
Here Comes Everybody - the Power of Organizing Without Organizations, by Clay Shirky
The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benchler
The Starfish and the Spider - The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Brafman and Beckstrom
Emergence - The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, by Steven Johnson
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, by Eric Raymond
McLuhan for Managers - New Tools for New Thinking, by de Kerckhove and Federman
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire
Education for Critical Consciousness, by Paolo Freire
Presencing, by Otto Scharmer
The Living Organization, by Arie de Geus
Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott
The Cluetrain Manifesto, by Doc Searls, Chris Locke, David Weinberger and Rick Levine
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined - A Unified Theory of the Web, by David Weinberger
Everything Is Miscellaneous - The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger
Intellectual Capital, by Thomas Stewart
Human Capital - What It is and Why People Invest In It, by Tom Davenport
Information Ecology - Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment, by Davenport and Prusak
Competing On Analytics - the New Science of Winning, by Davenport and Harris
Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers, by Tom Davenport
The Attention Economy, by Davenport and Beck
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What they Know, by Davenport and Prusak
The Balanced Scorecard, by Kaplan & Norton
Gainsharing and Productivity - A guide to Planning, Implementation and Development, by Doyle
Managing Customer Value - Creating Quality & Service That Customers Can See, by Brian Gale
Future Work - Where To Find Tomorrow's High-tech Jobs Today, by Diane Butler
The Dilbert Principle - A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions, by Scott Adams
Age Wave - the Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging North America, by Ken Dychtwald
Jobs, Roles and People - The New World of Job Evaluation, by Hay Management Consultants
Punished By Rewards - The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn
The Great Reckoning - How the World Will Change in the Great Depression of the 1990's, by Lord Rees-Mogg
The Organization Game, by Craig Hickman
Love Is Letting Go of Fear, by Gerald Jampolsky
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Yes, it's heavy on the non-fiction .. and yes, for the last year or so I have been reading many more novels ;-)
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