What’s on Your Nightstand?
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009FuquaNet, a newsletter for Fuqua alumni, has a column called “What’s on Your Nightstand?” It lists books that Fuqua faculty and staff members have read. Perhaps you might enjoy one or more of these during the upcoming holiday breaks. Below are some of the titles mentioned, with the reviewers comments, that we have here at Ford Library (click on the link to place a hold or check availability):
Leadership & Management
- The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action through Narrative by Stephen Denning (Jossey Bass). Given our role in the Career Management Center to deliver presentations on a regular basis, I am always looking for resources to improve the narrative process, and this looks to offer some great lessons and perspective.
- From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton)
Globalization
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin). Mountain climbing “bum” Mortenson is saved by poor Pakistani villagers and promises to return to build a school for girls. He succeeds and eventually builds more than fifty throughout Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s poorest regions.
- The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (W.W. Norton) deals with a very timely topic, providing a compelling overview of the growth of “the rest of the world” and the diminished influence of the United States in shaping world events. As Zakaria puts it at the beginning of the book, “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” (more…)