Resources

A few tools, books, articles and links are listed below.  

Some favorite quotations:

"All is flux."  - Heraclitus

"Not to decide is to decide." - Sartre

Tools

Pareto Analysis is useful for determining where you are currently spending your efforts.

Paired Comparison Analysis is useful for ranking options.

Risk Identification Matrix is useful for identifying and ranking your project's risks.

Innovations

Richard Leifer, Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice, Robert W. Veryzer, Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts, Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Debora L. Spar, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Harcourt, Inc., 2001.

Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson, Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Leslie Martinich, "Commercializing and Managing Innovations." Southwest Business Symposium, 2002.

Leslie Martinich, "Future Trends in eLearning: Lessons from History," Proceedings of the Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks, 2002.

Leslie Martinich, "Strategy, Electronic Commerce and Partners," 2002.

Leadership and Ethics

Joseph L. Badaracco, Richard R. Ellsworth, Leadership and the Quest for Integrity, Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, HarperCollins, 2001.

Coaching

Bridgeway Career Development Career Coaching

NLP training course, hypnotherapy training, NLP coaching course

Presentations and Handouts

Leading an Effective Engineering Organization (Handouts)

Being Open

 

 


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