Another year of professional growth and learning. A significant amount of my time went to my MBA (IT Mgmt Specialization) course work in 2015; I could not devote as many hours to reading about other topics I enjoy, such as higher education and student affairs. Nevertheless, I still managed to enjoy reading the books below. As it was with my professional reading lists for 2013 and 2014, most of the books below are kindle books I read through my iPhone and iPad. The beauty of mobile learning. Please feel free to ask me for any recommendations.
Business & Productivity
- Authority Positioning: How to Become the Leader In Your Niche by Leonardo Habegger
- Business Research Methods, 12th edition by Donald Cooper, Pamela Schindler
- Business Statistics in Practice, 7th edition (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Operations and Decision Sciences) by Bruce Bowerman, Richard O’Connell, Emilly Murphree
- Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est) by Ross
- Finance for IT Managers Simplified: Easy step-by-step examples to master essential finance by Sribatsa Das
- Financial Accounting – 8/e by Robert Libby and Patricia Libby
- Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They’ll Give You Even More, Second Edition by Mark Murphy
- Marketing Management by Marshall
- Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 9th Edition by Jack R. Meredith, Mantel Jr., Samuel J., Scott M. Shafer
- TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks by Akash Karia
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business (J-B Lencioni Series) by Patrick M. Lencioni
Change and Innovation
- Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work by Whitney Johnson
- Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy by R Ray Wang
- Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, van Ge
- How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton
- Leading
- Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly by Bernadette Jiwa
- Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett
- Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level by Engstrom, Catherine McHugh
- Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think by Mona Patel
- Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It by Dorie Clark
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
- The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation by Charlene Li
- They Laughed at Galileo: How the Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong by Albert Jack
Higher Education / Student Affairs
- A Guide to Becoming a Scholarly Practitioner in Student Affairs by Lisa J. Hatfield, Vicki L. Wise
- A Guide to College and University Budgeting: Foundations for Institutional Effectiveness by Larry Goldstein
- A University for the 21st Century by Duderstadt, James J.
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Building Better Universities: Strategies, Spaces, Technologies by Jos Boys
- Change Leadership in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Academic Transformation by Jeffrey L. Buller
- College Disrupted: The Unbundling of Higher Education by Ryan Craig
- Coordinating Student Affairs Divisional Assessment: A Practical Guide (An ACPA / NASPA Joint Publication) by Yousey-Elsener, Kimberly, Bentrim, Erin, Henning, Gavin W., R
- Critical Race Theory in Higher Education: 20 Years of Theoretical and Research Innovations: ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 41, Number 3 (J-B ASHE Higher Education Repor
- Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities by Boyte, Harry C.
- Designing for Learning: Creating Campus Environments for Student Success by C. Carney Strange, James H. Banning
- Designing the New American University by Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars
- From The Beginning: Perspectives From New & Emerging Student Affairs Professionals by Alex Fields
- Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders by Gary A. Olson, John W. Presley
- Introducing Change from the Top in Universities and Colleges: Ten Personal Accounts (Managing Innovation and Change in Universities and Colleges) by Weil, Susan,
- Learning with ‘e’s: Educational theory and practice in the digital age by Steve Wheeler, Richard Gerver
- Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Eugene M. Tobin
- Measuring Cocurricular Learning: The Role of the IR Office: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 164 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research) by Kennedy-
- New Directions for Student Services, 1997-2014: Glancing Back, Looking Forward: New Directions for Student Services, Number 151 (J-B SS Single Issue Student Services) by
- Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education by Stevens, Mitchell, Kirst, Michael
- Research-Driven Practice in Student Affairs: Implications from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education: New Directions for Student Services, … 147 (J-B SS Singl
- The Digital Revolution in HIgher Education by Alan Shark
- The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
- The Missing Voices in EdTech: Bringing Diversity Into EdTech (Corwin Connected Educators Series) by Rafranz Davis
- The University Next Door: What Is a Comprehensive University, Who Does it Educate, and Can It Survive? by Mark Schneider, KC Deane
- Using Emerging Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement: New Directions for Student Services, Number 124 by Junco, Reynol
- Why Does College Cost So Much? by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Information Technology
- 2015 Strategy Guide for the Top 10 IT Issues In Higher Education: Tools, Methodologies, and Frameworks by Shawn Davis
- Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery by Sriram Narayan
- Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy by Jeff Sussna
- Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation by Peter A. High
- IT Project Management Skill-sets (IT Project Management Series) by New Art Technologies
- IT Strategic Project Management SPOMP: Implementing Change Successfully: Five New Strategies to Influence Stakeholders, Sell Your Ideas, and Boost Your Career in the Informat
- IT Strategy: Issues and PracticesIssues and Practices by James D McKeen, Heather A Smith
- Leader Evolution:: From Technical Expertise to Strategic Leadership by Alan Patterson
- Practical Project EVM: The Application of Earned Value Management to Project Monitoring and Controlling by M. Jeffery Tyler
- Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel, Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton
- Six Protocols of IT Transformation: Managing the Transformation of IT Ecosystems with Value-Based IT by Patrick Lesandrini
- Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses by United States Government Accountability Office
- The Big Shift in IT Leadership: How Great CIOs Leverage the Power of Technology for Strategic Business Growth in the Customer-Centric Economy (Wiley CIO) by Hunter Muller
- The CIO’s Guide to Breakthrough Project Portfolio Performance: Applying the Best of Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean by Michael Hannan, Wolfram Müller, Hilbert RobinsonThe C-Suite CIO: Aligning Relationships with Senior Peers by Ashwin Rangan
- The Economics of Cloud Computing: An Overview For Decision Makers (Network Business) by Bill Williams
- The Essential CIO: Why The CIO Needs To Act Like The CEO by Matt Graham-Hyde
- The Levers of Embedded IT (CIO Series) by Gerry Robinson
- The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age by Jill Dyche
- The Wolf in CIO’s Clothing: A Machiavellian Strategy for Successful IT Leadership by Tina Nunno
- World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs by Peter A. High
Management/Leadership
- Who’s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success–and Won’t Let You Fail by Keith Ferrazzi
- Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging by Susan Fowler
Technology
- Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation by George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee
- Smart Learning: Teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets in post-compulsory education by Middleton, Andrew
- The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research (Sage Handbooks) by Sara Price, Carey Jewitt, Barry Brown
- Thingalytics: Smart Big Data Analytics for the Internet of Things by Dr. John Bates
- Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas by Dan Zarrella
