Previous Book Banter Selections

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Date

Book

Author

Recap of discussion

November 2008

Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry

Sue Annis Hammond

November 2008

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

David L Cooperrider, Diana Whitney

September, October 2008

Wikinomics:How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Don Tapscott , Anthony D. Williams

August 2008

A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance

Roger Chevalier

May, June, July 2008

Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath,Dan Heath

December 2007, January, February, March, April 2008

Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change

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

The World Is Flat: A Brief history Of The 21st Century

Thomas L. Friedman

September,October,November 2006

The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

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

Leadership From The Inside Out

Kevin Cashman

April 2006

Confronting Reality:Doing What Matters to Get Things Right

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan

February, March 2006

The Oz Principle

Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig R. Hickman

October,November,December 2005, January 2006

The Ethical Brain

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 Differently

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

June, 2005

Blink:
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

April, May, 2005

Good to Great:
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Jim Collins

Jan. - March, 2005

Massive Change

Bruce Mau

July-Dec., 2004

Serious Performance Consulting According to Rummler

Geary A. Rummler

June 2004

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

Edward R. Tofte

May 2004

The Brand You 50:
Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!

Tom Peters

Dec. 2003 - April 2004

Performance-Based Management:
What Every Manager Should Do to Get Results

Judith Hale

Sept., Oct., Nov., 2003

The Answer To How Is Yes:
Acting On What Matters

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.,
2003

High Impact Learning: Strategies for leveraging business results from training

Robert Brinkerhoff

Oct., Nov., Dec., 2002

E-Learning and the Science of Instruction

Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer

August, Sept., 2002

First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis

Allison Rosett

May, June, July 2002

Flawless Consulting
A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

Peter Block

April 2002

Human Resource Development and Information Technology

Catherine Sleezer, Tim Wentling, and Roger Cude

Feb. 2002 - March 2002

Strategic Thinking: A guide to Identifying and Solving Problems

Roger Kaufman

Jan. 2002

The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action

Kaplan and Norton

Dec 2001

Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

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Nov 2001

The Art of Framing, Managing the Language of Leadership

Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr

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Oct 2001

Sizzle and Substance, Presenting with the Brain in Mind *Recommended by Gil Kinnunen

Eric Jensen

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Sept 2001

Sizzle and Substance, Presenting with the Brain in Mind *Recommended by Gil Kinnunen

Eric Jensen

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April - June, 2001

Human Competence, Engineering Worthy Performance

Thomas F. Gilbert

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Feb. - March, 2001

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

Michael Gelb

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Oct 2000-Jan 2001

Designing Web-Based Training

William Horton

 

July - September, 2000

The Eden Conspiracy: Educating for Accomplished Citizenship

Joe Harless

 

May, 2000

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Thomas Friedman

 

February, 2000

How to Read a Book

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

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

 

June 98  

Performance Improvement Pathfinders: Models for Organizational Learning Systems

Edited by Peter Deane & David Ripley

 

May 98

Understanding Comics

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 

The Conditions of Learning, Training Applications                

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

 


Reference Books: Desktop Publishing

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)