Category: Management-Business

Management-Business

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Gerald WeinbergCopyright (c) 2011 Weinberg is a master of extracting the human personality required to run modern business. He describes one of his art-forms in this introduction to consulting practice. This book does not focus merely on short heuristics on how to consult. It instead goes in-depth into the psyche required to succeed as a consultant. He defines consulting as the art of influencing people at their request. He then describes a rational framework…

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Management-Business

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Tom DeMarco and Tim ListerCopyright (c) 2013 This book is one of the few focused specifically on how to manage projects and teams of knowledge-workers. It teaches the reader how management might retain workers and their essential skills instead of treating them like cattle. It treats the central problem of management is sociology and not technology. Keeping knowledge-workers happy and productive requires humanity and not scorched-earth policies. The book, in its third edition, is organized…

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Management-Business Software-Technology

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Camille FournierCopyright (c) 2017 My path to software was not traditional. I always did well at mathematics in school, but I liked many things that weren’t technical – journalism, religion, poetry, and medicine all pulled my strings at some time. I have ended up producing software used in medical research. As such, I figured that I needed to study the traditional career path in software/technology to try to meld my diverse skill-set with more…

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Management-Business

The First-Time Manager

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Loren B. Belker, Jim McCorkmick, and Gary S. TopchikCopyright (c) 2012Audiobook I am not a first-time manager. I am not even a manager. Nonetheless, studying the field of management can give me insight into my work. It can help me work better with the managers around me, and it can help me carry my load as a manage my projects in tandem with the people around me. This book consists of tips and insights…

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Management-Business Software-Technology

The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Gerald M. WeinbergCopyright (c) 1998, 1971 This book is misnamed, as the author admits. It should be named “The Anthropology of Computer Programming.” It studies the culture of computer programming rather than the psychology of the practice. Fortunately, despite being written over forty years ago, it succeeds at its task for the reader today as well as for the original reader. If you can move past the references to dated languages and programming practices,…

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Leadership Management-Business

Doing the Right Things Right

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by Laura Slack AudiobookThis book’s title borrows from Peter Drucker’s famous distinction that management is doing things right and leadership is doing the right things. In the introduction, Slack says that she aspires to update Drucker’s work on the executive worker for the Internet age. She does just that, incorporating advice for new situations throughout her work while remaining true to Drucker’s principles. That being said, she is no Drucker. Drucker’s strength is focusing on…

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Leadership Management-Business

Out of the Crisis

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

by W. Edwards DemingCopyright 1982. Deming’s Fourteen Points Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis…

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