Endurance: Shackleton''s Incredible Voyage

Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to lead the first group of men to cross Antarctica is today one of the greatest adventure stories of the twentieth century. The year was 1915 and Ernest Shackleton, an experienced adventurer, assembled a team of 27 men and 69 sled dogs that set sail from England to the southern hemisphere...

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The Wealthy Barber Returns

Why did we review this book about personal money management on the Ambidexter website? The answer is that the spirit behind each of these principles can also be applied to managing project spending, as shown with the bolded word changes below.

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Good to Great

This book starts with a simple statement - “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.” In essence what Collins means by this statement is that becoming ‘good’ is too often ‘good enough’. He explores this concept through a systematic study of a handful of publicly traded companies considering the question, “Can a good company become a great company and, if so, how?” .

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. This is very sobering book for all of us so called experts. A truly remarkable eye-opener...

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The Checklist Manifesto

A New York Times Bestseller. For project managers just as for airline pilots and surgeons, we are big proponents of checklists. In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with ...

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This Will Make You Smarter

As Jason Zweig puts it, "we should each invest a few hours a week in reading research that ostensibly has nothing to do with our day jobs, in a setting that has nothing in common with our regular workspaces." That is the reason why we wholeheartedly recommend this book. Although the complete contents of this book is available on the web at the website of EDGE.org we still bought it as this is one of those books you keep picking up every now and then to browse through.

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