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12 Books for the CIO's Winter Reading List

By Dennis McCafferty on 2012-01-17


If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to sharpen your business and leadership skills or to read more books, CIO Insight’s winter book guide can help you on both fronts. This collection of titles explores a broad range of key issues facing CIOs today, examining leadership trends, business agility, corporate and executive transparency and the ever-present mandate to innovate. If you add these to your “must read” list, you can find out why C-Suite executives have less influence than they like to think they have, or how you can use smarter social-media strategies to elevate your “e-profile”. Others discuss ways to maximize the effectiveness of today’s business tools and how to manage projects from an enterprise perspective. Each offers insights and information that can be of value to the ambitious technology leader. For more information about each book included here, click on the link above the slide. And please note, all publication dates are subject to change.

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Who’s in the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them


It’s a myth that senior management teams make all of the decisions. Discover how the boss and a select group of confidants – the “team with no name” ‑ get things done.
By Bob Frisch
Jossey-Bass
Available: January

CTOs at Work


For insightful forecasts into the future of IT, get “into the heads” of top CTOs through these probing interviews.
By Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel, Gary Donaldson
Apress
Available: January

Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t -- And What That Means For Your Business


Find out not only how innovation works – but why it fails: The latter would include a closed-minded corporate culture and a general unwillingness to go out on a limb and make mistakes.
By Jeffrey Philips
McGraw-Hill Professional
Available: January

The Virtual Manager: Cutting Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees


The mere suggestion of employees working from home is enough to make many managers sweat. (“How can I manage what I can’t see?”) Instead, explore how to adapt an entirely new “virtual manager” style.
By Kevin Sheridan
Career Press
Available: January 2012

Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence


In this social-media age of transparency and self-expression, CIOs and others can emerge as heroes or goats within moments. Which is why it’s critical to exert control over your communications stamp.
By Erik Qualman
McGraw-Hill Professional
Available: January

Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive—Company Really Works


Fortune’s Lashinsky reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that fueled the steady success of Steve Jobs and his company.
By Adam Lashinsky
Business Plus
Available: January

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How it Works, How to Do It


Anthony demystifies innovation by simply defining it, then breaking it down into distinguished categories that match a range of organizational needs.
By Scott Anthony
Harvard Business Review Press
Available: January

Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance


Only 30% of management tools deliver as needed because they’re misused by organizations. Beyond Performance Management sheds insight on selecting the right ones and maximizing value from them.
By Jeremy Hope and Steve Player
Harvard Business Review Press
Available: February

The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation


Excel by getting the most from an “innovation ecosystem,” one that includes suppliers, distributors, retailers and others.
By Ron Adner
Portfolio
Available: March

Enterprise Project Governance: A Guide to the Successful Management of Projects Across the Organization


A guide for CIOs who must oversee simultaneous initiatives while ensuring they align with organizational strategies and create value.
By Paul C. Dinsmore and Luiz Rocha
Amacom
Available: March

Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change


Radical reinvention is overrated. It’s better to maintain simplicity and establish repeatable business models that still adapt to change.
By Chris Zook and James Allen
Harvard Business Review Press
Available: March

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