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A reading list for aspiring knowledge workers

February 02, 2006
http://futuretense.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/a_reading_list_for_aspiring_knowledge_workers.php
Jim McGee chose some of the key books that he thought were important if you were interested in becoming a better knowledge worker

Please note: some books may be missing from this list, as they may not be available.Our list may include different editions than originally listed


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Mindfulness
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 Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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 Personal Success
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Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
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 Problem Solving
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The Design of Everyday Things
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With the many recent advances in technology, it seems, there has followed a diminution of quality. Electronic books have several advantages over their print counterparts, for instance. But for the...

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 Basic Books
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 Innovation & Creativity
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The Creative Habit : Learn It and Use It for Life
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All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter,...

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 Innovation & Creativity
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should...

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 Time Management
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The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion : A Guide Understanding Your Expertise
Buy The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion : A Guide Understanding Your Expertise from Amazon  By Block, Peter Amazon's customers rating

Don't venture into the consulting field without this essential Fieldbook & Companion! Following on the heels of the best-selling Flawless Consulting, Second Edition comes The

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 Consulting
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The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
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People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and...

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 Berrett-Koehler Pub
 December - Paperback
 Management Skills
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Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
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Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers
Buy Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers from Amazon  By Davenport, Thomas Amazon's customers rating

Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 December - Hardcover
 Knowledge Management
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
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Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers,...

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 O'Reilly & Associates
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 Internet
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product (programs) that will operate in some environment...

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 Information Systems
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words,...

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 Innovation & Creativity
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Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
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The best-selling guide to overcoming creative blocks and unleashing a torrent of great ideas-updated for a new generation of problem solvers.

James Adams's unique approach to generating ideas and...

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 Innovation & Creativity
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
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A leading MIT social scientist and consultant examines five professions--engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning--to show how professionals really go about solving...

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 Basic Books
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 Problem Solving
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Teaching As a Subversive Activity
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 Delta Group
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 Learning, Education & Knowledge Management
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Learning as a Way of Being : Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water
Buy Learning as a Way of Being : Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water from Amazon  By Vaill, Peter B. Amazon's customers rating

Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very

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 Jossey-Bass
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 Learning, Education & Knowledge Management
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Filters against Folly
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 Penguin Books
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 Miscellaneous
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Improv Wisdom : Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
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In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of...

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 Harmony Books
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 Innovation & Creativity
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How to Read a Book
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How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general...

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 Touchstone Books
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 Business Reference
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Writing without Teachers
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If Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers seems to have come into being at the same time as '70s encounter groups, that's because it did. First published in 1976, Writing Without...

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 Business Writing
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