Sunday, July 7, 2013

Technical Books


The Books I wanted to read but could manage some and couldn't the other :)

1. The C Programming Language - K & R
2. The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustrup
3. The Design of UNIX Operating System - Maurice J Bach
4. UNIX Network Programming - W Richard Stevens
5. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - W Richard Stevens
6. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1 - W Richard Stevens
7. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 2 - W Richard Stevens, Gary R Wright
8. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 3 - W Richard Stevens
9. UNIX Network Programming, Vol 1 - W Richard Stevens
10. UNIX Network Programming, Vol 2 - W Richard Stevens
11. Unix Internals: The New Frontiers - Uresh Vahalia
12. The Art of UNIX Programming - Eric S Raymond
13. Operating Systems Concepts - Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
14. Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Andrew S Tanenbaum
15. The Art of Computer Programming, 1 - D E Knuth
16. The Art of Computer Programming, 2 - D E Knuth
17. The Art of Computer Programming, 3 - D E Knuth
18. The Art of Computer Programming, 4a - D E Knuth

Rest follows after I take some rest for now :-)

~సూర్యుడు :-)



Business Books

Books I have seen or want to read (if time permits :))


HBR Guide To:
  1. Project Management
  2. Better Business Writing
  3. Finance Basics for Managers
  4. Getting The Right Work Done
  5. Managing Up and Across
  6. Persuasive Presentations

HBR On:

  1. Advancing Your Career
  2. Smart Decisions
  3. Communicating Effectively
  4. Finding and Keeping Best People
  5. Winning Negotiations
  6. Managing People
  7. Developing High-Potential Leaders
  8. Managing Your Career in Tough Times
  9. Motivating People
  10. Talent Management
  11. Managing Difficult People
  12. What Makes A Leader
  13. Managing Through a Downturn
  14. Effective Communication

HBR's 10 Must Reads:

  1. Managing Yourself
  2. Managing People
  3. Leadership
  4. Strategy
  5. Change

Harvard Business Essential:

  1. Manager's Toolkit
  2. Negotiation
  3. Coaching and Mentoring
  4. Creating Teams with an Edge
  5. Performance Management

Harvard Press:

  1. First 90 Days - Michael Watkins 
  2. Becoming A Manager - Linda A Hill
  3. Being The Boss - Linda A Hill
  4. What To Ask The Person In The Mirror - Kaplan

Peter Drucker:

  1. Managing For Results
  2. The Effective Exective
  3. The Practice of Management
  4. Technology, Management and Society
  5. The Essential Drucker
  6. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
  7. Managing in Turbulent Times
  8. Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Michael E Porter:

  1. Competitive Strategy
  2. Competitive Advantage
  3. On Competition

Ram Charan & Co

  1. The Talent Masters - Bill Conaty, Ram Charan
  2. Global Tilt - Ram Charan
  3. Execution - Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy
  4. Leadership Pipeline - Ram Charan
  5. Know-How - Ram Charan

  1. The Leadership Engine - Noel M Tichy, Eli Cohen

  1. The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen
  2. The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid -  C.K.Prahalad
  3. Systems Thinking - Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Daniel Goleman

  1. Emotional Intelligence
  2. Working with Emotional Intelligence
  3. Ecological Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
  4. Destructive Emotions - Daniel Goleman

Coveys

  1. The 7 Habits of highly Effective People - Stephen R Covey
  2. The 8th Habit - Stephen R Covey
  3. The Speed of Trust - Stephen M R Covey


Marcus Buckingham & Co
  1. The One Thing you need to Know - Marcus Buckingham
  2. First Break All the Rules - Marcus Buckingham
  3. Strengths Finder - Tom Rath
  4. Go Put Your Strengths to Work - Marcus Buckingham

  1. What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmit
  2. Managing Difficult Conversations at Work - Sue Clark, Mel Myers
  3. Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen


Bios & Case Studies
  1. The HP Way - Dave Packard, Bill Hewlett
  2. Build to Last - Jim Collins, Jerry I Porras
  3. Good to Great - Jim Collins
  4. The Google Story - David A Vise
  5. Business @ The Speed of Thought - Bill Gates
  6. Direct From Dell - Michael Dell
  7. Only The Paranoid Survive - Andrew S Grove
  8. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? - Louis V Gerstner, Jr.
  9. The Toyota Way - Jeffrey K Liker
  10. Toyota Talent - Jeffrey K Liker, David P Meier
  11. Freedom Inc. - Brian M Carney, Isaac Getz
  12. iCon Steve Jobs - Jeffrey S Young, William L Simon
  13. Maverick - Ricardo Semler
  14. Employees First, Customers Second - Vineet Nayar
  15. Winning - Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Economics Related
  1. Economics
  2. False Economy - Alan Beatite
  3. When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
  4. Capitalism At Risk - Joseph L Bower, Herman B Leonard, Lynn S Paine
  5. The New Digital Age- Eric Shmidt, Jared Cohen
  6. Animal Spirits - George A Akerlof, Robert J Shiller
  7. Crisis Economics - Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm
  8. Extreme Money - Satyajit Das 
  9. Breakout Nations - Ruchir Sharma
  10. An Age of New Possibilities - Reinhard Mohn
  11. Empires of Mind - Denis Waitley
  12. Games People Play - Eric Berne
  13. Five Roads to The Future - Paul Starobin
  14. Small is Beautiful - E F Schumacher

  1. The Habit of Winning - Prakash Iyer
  2. Excellence - J Pincott
  3. In Search Of Excellence - Thomas J Peters, Robert H Waterman Jr.
  4. Be Excellent at Anything - Tony Schwartz
  5. The Leader's Guide to Storytelling - Stephen Denning
  6. Think Better - Tim Hurson
  7. Mobilizing Minds - Lowell L Bryan, Claudia I Joyce
  8. Getting More - Stuart Diamond
  9. What Works - Hamish McRae

  1. Crossing The Chasm - Geoffrey A Moore
  2. Talent is never enough - John c maxwell
  3. Hacking Work - Bill Jensen, Josh Klein
  4. The Fifth  Discipline - Peter M Senge
  5. The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande


~సూర్యుడు :-)