Since I put this up over the break I received no comments. Given that in the Ethics class today virtually no one had heard of
Gladwell / Tipping Point
Taleb / Black Swan
Or other literature mentioned, perhaps this wold be a good time to begin a required reading list
Weekend Dec 28, 2014
Prof Paula Cohen contributed this article A Year of 15 Minute Daily Does from the Harvard Classics as a recent Wall Street Journal op ed In a nut shell this Distinguished English Professor relates that
she inherited a five foot shelf of 50 classics published as a set in 1910. An intro volume actually had daily suggestions for 15 minute reads, so as to take the novice reader through the various volumes, putting the proverbial toe in the water so to speak. She relates it was tough to keep on the time line but it was worth it.
Back in the day, universities used to have required if not suggested reading lists. And so I sent Prof Cohen an e mail suggesting we should at least have a 52 week list for business students. Most seem to arrive not having read anything quite frankly.
I am going to use this post as a repository for links that just might serve as starting points for such a business list. These links in and of themselves would not serve as the specific suggestions but certainly there is material available here that would serve as readings, or lead to such an article, much of which changes over time.
The Deming Institute Founded by the original quality guru
Drucker Institute dedicated to the guy who invented management
Tom Peters Website from the guy who gave us Management by Wandering Around
Thomas Sowell Home Page Prolific writer of 40 books, Milton Friedman Chair Stanford
Walter Willaims Home Page Fried of Tom Sowell, teaches at George Mason
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society The original Transcendentalist
The Thoreau Institute A Tribute to the original Counter Culture Guru, one hundred years before his time
Richard Branson's blog Successful and original at the same time, founder Virgin Atlantic
24 Must Read Blogs for Entrepreneurs A few of these might serve as a read
The Big Picture – Barry Ritholtz lots of links here, again these are all general leads to find specific articles worth readingsocionomi
Socionomics the New Predictive Social Science of How Mood Influences what happens
Malcolm Gladwell page. Author of Outliers, Tipping Point
The Pitchman This would be an example of a specific link to an article that could be read in fifteen minutes, Gladwell's award winningprofile of tv pitchman Ron Popeii
Nassim Taleb on Fooled By Randomness; The Black Swan - Taleb has sold over two million books on the idea that random events occur with surprising regularity
Tom Peters In Search of Excellence ONe of the original gurus of improvement, still going strong
Eric Hoffer Quotes, Author of The True Believer The Philisophical Longshoreman
Dale Carnegie Page Author of the original self help book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, this is a summary of his prnciples
The Art of the Essay E B White, the master, on good writing
The ultimate quote on quality
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
Quotes on Cheapness, i.e. the lack of quality
Will Rogers The Transcendentalist of the Last Century
Professor Elam 
Leave a comment