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.