Books

September 12th, 2004

The Maverick & The Elegant Universe

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The Maverick and His Machine by Kevin Maney

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

Bought these two books before dinner just after golf (Gosh, I havent play Golf for 7 months now..I am surprise I can still hit the ball! :-)

The Maverick is a book about Thomas Waston (Sr) and how he remake IBM. Thomas is well-known for not just encouraging mavericks (aka “birds who refuse to fly in line”) but also promote and use them well during his time. Those days (not-so-co-incidently) also happened to be the brightest days of IBM.

The Elegant Universe is a layman book on T.O.E (The Theory of Everything) aka Superstring Theory. I would have become a Physicist if computer hasn’t been invented.

August 25th, 2004

Teams That Succeed

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Teams That Succeed by Harvard Business Review

August 15th, 2004

Innovator’s Dilemma

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The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen.

Actually, not a new book but I digged out from my closet and re-read it last week for some internal presentations. Highly recommended for someone who is interested in technology trends.

Incidently, in the course of doing research for my presentation, I also come across this article The Myth of Disruptive Technology by John Dvorak (via Orkut’s Disruptive Technologies Community).
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June 25th, 2004

The Future of Work

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The Future of Work by Thomas W. Malone

Thomas distributed some of his book after his keynote speech at Supernova 2004. I like his speech and I am sure I will enjoy his book too.

June 21st, 2004

Uncommon Sense

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Uncommon Sense by Peter Cochrane (former CTO of BT)

Pick this up in the Singapore Airport on my way to SFO. I flip through it briefly and really like what I saw!

May 7th, 2004

Nemesis

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Nemesis by Issac Asimov

Yep, not a book on technology, business or management!

And not bought recently either…Lets see, the receipt shows I bought this on 26th July 1999 from Kepler’s Book @ 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Wow, thats a book I bought in two previous life ago.

Anyway, Issac Asimov is my fav author ever since I was a kid. I read almost all his Foundation and Robot stories and could describe his Three Laws of Robotics and its philisophy to anyone anytime.

With thousands of short stories credited to his name, I remember driving around El Camino Real, looking for those really old second bookstores and stay there for hours, hunting for his short stories and sometimes buying the whole book for the sake of one of his story. It become some sort of pasttime when I was there.

April 5th, 2004

The Effective Executive, etc

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The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

Business @ the Speed of Thought by Bill Gate

March 18th, 2004

The Road Ahead

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The Road Ahead by Bill Gate

March 8th, 2004

Book of Five Rings

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Musashi’s Book of Five Rings by Steve Kaufman

February 12th, 2004

Naked Corporation

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Naked Corporation by Don Tapscott and David Ticoll