Fast Company Library

Books listed by issue:

July 2002

Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval
by Jonathan Cagan, Craig Vogel, and Bruce Nussbaum
(Prentice Hall, 2002)

A Gesture Life
by Chang-rae Lee
(Riverhead Books, 1999)

The Limits to Growth
by Donella H. Meadows
(Universe Pub, 1972)

The Art of the Long View
by Peter Schwartz
(Doubleday, 1991)

June 2002

The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
(Harvard Business School Press, 1997)

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
(Little Brown, November 2002)

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
(Vintage Books, 2000)

The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
by Grant Hammond
(Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)

May 2002

First Among Equals
by David Maister
(Free Press, 2002)

Managing the Professional Services Firm: How to Manage a Group of Professionals
by David Maister
(Free Press, 1993)

Practice What You Preach: What Managers Must Do to Create a High-Achievement Culture
by David Maister
(Free Press, 2001)

The Trusted Advisor
by David Maister
(Free Press, 2000)

Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity
by Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and Robert E. Quinn
(Jossey-Bass, 2001)

The Social Psychology of Organizing
by Karl E. Weick
(McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1979)

April 2002

Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy
by Ben Cheever
(Bloomsbury, 2001)

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
(Scribner, 2001)

Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
by Frank H. Knight
(University of Chicago Press, 1921)