Professors' Recommended Reading List 2

Prof. Lekacos



The Definitive Drucker

The Definitive Drucker is a fascinating look into the ideas of the man who helped to shape the practice of management as we know it today. A great read for business majors, and up and coming executives.




The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics



It offers a way to think about economic growth and business management. This book explores the roots of modern economic theory and ultimately declares it outmoded and wrong. It suggests that markets and growth can be explained by drawing on the field of complexity economics: the study of markets and social systems as complex adaptive systems.




Prof. Laskowski




The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century
The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, this book argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole age of globalization, a flattening' of the world. It attempts to demystify the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand.



Winning
Winning is destined to become the bible of business for generations to come. It clearly and succinctly lays out the answers to the most difficult, important questions people face both on and off the job. Welch's objective is to speak to people at every level of the organization, in companies large and small. His audience is everyone from line workers to college students and MBAs, from project managers to senior executives. He describes his core business principles and devotes most of Winning to the real "stuff" of work--how to lead, hire, get ahead, even write a budget. Welch's optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind set is riveting. His goal is to help anyone and everyone who has a passion for success.

The Age of Turbulence

Greenspan's political memoir, which occupies the first half of the book, is readable, lucid and sometimes a bit thin on the dilemmas of monetary policy. In the book's second half, Greenspan the charmer makes way for Greenspan the technician, and the result is a 250-page essay on globalization. His overviews of Russia, India and China say little that is not familiar to attentive readers of the news. But the last chapter makes a powerful and remarkably self-deprecating point. Readers who persevere will feel rewarded.