http://media-proinc.com/ribs-recommended-reading-business-literature-for-students-and-grads/ The art of business and communication Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://media-proinc.com/ribs-recommended-reading-business-literature-for-students-and-grads/comment-page-1/#comment-3754 Tom Groenfeldt Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:10:00 +0000 http://media-proinc.com/ribblog/?p=1067#comment-3754 Peter Drucker's memoir, Adventures of a Bystander. The inventor of management explains how it happened, going back to pre-Nazi life in Vienna and meeting lots of interesting people along the way, including the man who invented Kissinger. Peter Drucker’s memoir, Adventures of a Bystander. The inventor of management explains how it happened, going back to pre-Nazi life in Vienna and meeting lots of interesting people along the way, including the man who invented Kissinger.

]]> http://media-proinc.com/ribs-recommended-reading-business-literature-for-students-and-grads/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Carroll Lachnit Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:36:20 +0000 http://media-proinc.com/ribblog/?p=1067#comment-1746 Great list! Since I'm a recovering mystery writer, in addition to being an editor at a site & magazine aimed at HR people, my choices are eclectic, not essential, and have a workforce bent: "Moneyball," by Michael Lewis (about talent development), "And Then We Came to the End," the best sad/funny novel about layoffs I've ever read, and "The Ax," by Donald Westlake, the best dark-satiric thriller about a laid-off worker who will stop at nothing to get a coveted job, and "Company," by Max Barry, about a big consulting firm that is not exactly what it seems and where HR knows EVERYTHING! Great list! Since I’m a recovering mystery writer, in addition to being an editor at a site & magazine aimed at HR people, my choices are eclectic, not essential, and have a workforce bent: “Moneyball,” by Michael Lewis (about talent development), “And Then We Came to the End,” the best sad/funny novel about layoffs I’ve ever read, and “The Ax,” by Donald Westlake, the best dark-satiric thriller about a laid-off worker who will stop at nothing to get a coveted job, and “Company,” by Max Barry, about a big consulting firm that is not exactly what it seems and where HR knows EVERYTHING!

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