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Date
Book
Author
Recap of discussion
November 2008
Sue Annis Hammond
November 2008
David L Cooperrider, Diana Whitney
September, October 2008
Don Tapscott , Anthony D. Williams
August 2008
Roger Chevalier
May, June, July 2008
Chip Heath,Dan Heath
December 2007, January, February, March, April 2008
Don Edward Beck & Christopher C. Cowan
September, October, November 2007
A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Ken Wilber
July, August 2007
Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load
Ruth Clark, Frank Nguyen, John Sweller
June 2007
Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method For Getting Out Of Your Own Way
Rick Carson
April, May 2007
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
December 2006, January,February,March 2007
Thomas L. Friedman
September,October,November 2006
Stephen Covey
July, August 2006
Freakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
May, June 2006
Kevin Cashman
April 2006
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
February, March 2006
Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig R. Hickman
October,November,December 2005, January 2006
Michael Gazzaniga
August, September, 2005
Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them
Max Bazerman and Michael Watkins
July, 2005
First, Break All the Rules:
What the World's Greatest Managers Do DifferentlyMarcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
June, 2005
Malcolm Gladwell
April, May, 2005
Good to Great:
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tJim Collins
Jan. - March, 2005
Bruce Mau
July-Dec., 2004
Geary A. Rummler
June 2004
Edward R. Tofte
May 2004
Tom Peters
Dec. 2003 - April 2004
Performance-Based Management:
What Every Manager Should Do to Get ResultsJudith Hale
Sept., Oct., Nov., 2003
Peter Block
June, July, August, 2003
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie
March, April, May, 2003
What Management Is: How it works and why it's everyone's business
Joan Magretta
Jan., Feb.,
2003High Impact Learning: Strategies for leveraging business results from training
Robert Brinkerhoff
Oct., Nov., Dec., 2002
Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer
August, Sept., 2002
Allison Rosett
May, June, July 2002
Peter Block
April 2002
Catherine Sleezer, Tim Wentling, and Roger Cude
Feb. 2002 - March 2002
Strategic Thinking: A guide to Identifying and Solving Problems
Roger Kaufman
Jan. 2002
Kaplan and Norton
Dec 2001
Jared Diamond
Nov 2001
Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr
Oct 2001
Sizzle and Substance, Presenting with the Brain in Mind *Recommended by Gil Kinnunen
Eric Jensen
Sept 2001
Sizzle and Substance, Presenting with the Brain in Mind *Recommended by Gil Kinnunen
Eric Jensen
April - June, 2001
Thomas F. Gilbert
Feb. - March, 2001
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael Gelb
Oct 2000-Jan 2001
William Horton
July - September, 2000
Joe Harless
May, 2000
Thomas Friedman
February, 2000
Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
October, 1999
The Clock of the Long Now:Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
Stewart Brand
August - September, 1999
The Dance of Change: The Challenge to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
Peter Senge
Feb., April, 1999
Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement
Ruth Clark
January 99
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
June 98
Performance Improvement Pathfinders: Models for Organizational Learning Systems
Edited by Peter Deane & David Ripley
May 98
Scott McCloud
March 98
Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce
Roger C. Schank
January 98
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Harry Beckwith
May - November, 97
Robert M. Gagne and Karen L. Medsker
March, April 97
Performance Consulting: Moving Beyond Training
Dana Gaines Robinson and James C. Robinson
January 97
Improving Performance: How to manage the White Space on the Organization Chart
Geary Rummler and Alan Brache
The
September 98 Book Banter we reviewed several books on the effective design,
layout, and desktop publishing of instructional material. Below are our recommended
readings.
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Elizabeth
W. Adler, Everyone's
Guide to Successful Publications
Darlene Frank, Terrific
Training Materials
Roger C. Parker, Looking
Good in Print
Roger C. Parker, One
Minute Designer
Robin Williams, The
Non-Designer's Design Book
James Hartley, Designing
Instructional Text (2nd Edition)