JOHN'S GOOD BOOKS Organizations, Management and Leadership DeMarco, Tom, & Lister, Timothy. Peopleware : Productive projects and teams. New York, Dorset House, 1987. Two gurus of software management share their insights about how to unleash the potential of technical teams. Blanchard, Kenneth H. Leadership and the one minute manager: increasing effectiveness through situational leadership. New York, Morrow, 1985. (Also other books by same author). Orr, Kenneth T. The One Minute Methodology. Topeka, Kan.: Ken Orr & Associates, 1984. Heider, John. The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching adapted for a new age. Atlanta, Humanics New Age, 1985. The classic book of eastern philosophy is the inspiration for these wise prescriptions for effective leadership. Cleary, Thomas. The Human Element: A course in resourceful thinking. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1994. Applying eastern philosophy and pragmatism to modern business managment. Smith, Tony. Parzival's briefcase : six practices and a new philosophy for healthy organizational change. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. How the individual can be a catalyst for organizational change. Jones, Capers, Programming Productivity. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. The definitive work on measuring programmer productivity. Weinberg, Gerald M. Quality software management. New York: Dorset House, 1991. (Other books also). Quality Dyer, Michael. The Cleanroom Approach to Quality Software Development. New York: Wiley, 1992. The first book devoted entirely to this provocative new method. Schulmyer, G., & McManus, J. (eds). Total Quality Management for Software. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. An anthology of articles showing how quality control methods can be applied to software development. Walton, Mary. The Deming Management Method. New York, Putnam, 1988. Crosby, Philip B. Quality is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. (Also Quality without Tears). Thomas, Peter. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's best-run companies. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. New York: Morrow, 1974. A deeply personal, haunting, and enduring novel that inquires into the dichotomy between science and art, it is still required reading for anyone concerned about values and technology. Meaningful Work Lerner, Michael. Surplus powerlessness : the psychodynamics of everyday life and the psychology of individual and social transformation. Oakland, CA : Institute for Labor & Mental Health, 1986. (Also Tikkun) Lerner's "politics of meaning" has been embraced by the Clinton administration as a framework for social reform. Whitmyer, Claude (ed). Mindfulness and meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994. Tulku, Tarthang. Skillful Means. Oakland: Dharma Publishing, 1978. An uplifting, easy, warm book by a Buddhist master about how to find joy in everyday tasks. Florman, Samuel. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1976. If engineers were poets, this is what they would write about. Design Theory Norman, Donald. The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Jones, J. Christopher. Design Methods. (2nd ed). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. Design is a discipline that long predates software, and this book is a classic collection of design wisdom. Lawson, Bryan. How designers think. 2nd ed. Boston: Butterworth Architecture, 1990. Alexander, Christopher. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964. Futurists Pressman, Roger S., and Herron, S. Russell. Software Shock: the danger & the opportunity. New York: Dorset House, 1991. Written for nontechnical managers who need to understand software and software professionals. Toffler, A. Powershift: Knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century. New York : Bantam Books, 1990. Zuboff, S. In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power. Basic Books, 1988. Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology. New York: Knopf, 1992. Miscellaneous Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper Collins, 1990. This researcher reports on extensive studies of the "grooving-it" phenomenon. Galwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Tennis. New York: Bantam Books, 1979. A sport psychologist shows how to overcome the mental obstacles that interfere with effective performance. James, G. The Tao of Programming. Santa Monica, CA: Info Books, 1987. A short collection of humorous "parables" about programming. Herrigel, Eugen. Zen in the Art of Archery. Vintage Books, New York, 1989. A classic account of a european who studies archery with a zen master and experiences the trials and rewards of spiritual practice. Siu, R.G.H. The Tao of Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1957. Martin, Robert J., A Skills and Strategies Handbook for Working with People. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1983. A simple, practical guide to interpersonal communications. Bolton, Robert. Social style/management style: developing productive work relationships. New York: American Management Associations, 1984. A lay persons guide to personality theory and its applications to understanding people in business settings.