
Yah books…one rung up the endangered species list from newspapers (sob!), but we still love them on a Kindel, eBook or old school. Here’s our pick of page-turners related to our biz. Also check out our Reads & Follow page… Ok onto the tombs:
- Birth of the Chaordic Age – Dee W. Hock [Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2000]
- Crowdsourcing – Jeff Howe [New York: RandomHouse, 2008]
- Democratizing Innovation – Eric von Hippel [Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005]
- e-Preneur: From Wall Street to Wiki: Succeeding as a Crowdpreneur in the New Virtual Marketplace – Richard J. Goossen [Career Press, Incorporated, 2008]
- Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky [New York: Penguin, 2008]
- Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge – Cass R. Sunstein [New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006]
- Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology – Henry W Chesbrough [McGraw-Hill, 2003]
- The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture – Andrew Keen [New York: Doubleday Business, 2007]
- The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies – Scott E. Page [Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 2007]
- The Future of Work – Thomas Malone [Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004]
- The Game Changer: How You Can Drive Profit Growth with Innovation – A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan [New York: Crown Business, 2008]
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More – Chris Anderson [New York, Hyperion, 2005]
- The Pro-Am Revolution: How Enthusiasts Are Changing Our Economy and Society – Charles Leadbeater and Paul Miller [London: Demos, 2004]
- The Success of Open Source – Steven Weber [Cambridge Mass. And London; Harvard University Press, 2004]
- The Third Wave – Alvin Toffler [New York: Random House Value Publishing, 1987]
- Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom : How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World – Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta [Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2008]
- The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier – Howard Rheingold [New York: HarperCollins, 1993]
- We Are Smarter than Me : How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business – Barry Libert, Jon Spector, Don Tapscott [Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 2007]
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets & Freedom – Yochai Benkler [New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006]
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations – James Surowiecki [New York: Doubleday, 2004]
- Word of Mouse: The Marketing Power of Collaborative Filtering – John Riedl, Joseph Konstan and Eric Vrooman [New York: Warner Books, 2002]
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – Don Tapscott [Tantor Media, Inc., 2007]
What’s your pick? We welcome your comments.