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Looking for a "CIO edge”? How about tips to tune up your team management skills? Add these popular titles to your summer reading list, and get ready for a noteworthy collection of new releases on the way this fall. You'll gain management secrets and IT insight about a wide range of timely topics.
The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results
By Graham Waller, George Hallenbeck and Karen Rubenstrunk
Harvard Business Review Press/Available in November
Explore the people-to-people leadership competencies of high-performing CIOs.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Broadway Business/Available now
The Heath brothers demonstrate how mindsets can be transformed to embrace change instead of fearing it.
Smart Data: Enterprise Performance
Optimization Strategy
By James A. George and James A. Rodger
Wiley/Available now
What happens when you combine interoperable characteristics in a system of data exchange agreed upon by your user community? You'll get timely, responsive decision making plus reduced IT costs, say the authors.
Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth
By Inder Sidhu
FT Press/Available now
Find out how an unstable economy hasn't stopped Cisco from doubling revenue, tripling profits and quadrupling earnings per share.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton & Company/Available now
An examination of how the Web is essentially reprogramming the way we think — for better and worse.
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
By Clay Shirky
Penguin Press HC/Available now
Shirky conveys how technology is turning consumers into collaborators, elevating creativity to new and transformative levels.
Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, Transform Your Business
By Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler
Harvard Business Review Press/Available in September
A guide to understanding how the iPhone and mobile tools are changing the playing field when it comes to consumer information about products.
The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Harvard Business Review Press/Available in September
Learn how to build the optimum team – determining who'd fit in best and how they'd work with managers – and develop project plans for your initiatives.
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
By Lyssa Adkins
Addison-Wesley Professional/Available now
Create an environment that fosters self-organized, high-performance teams and learn how to stay actively engaged without dominating them or stunting their growth.
The One-Page Project Manager for Execution: Drive Strategy and Solve Problems with a Single Sheet of Paper
By Clark A. Campbell and Mike Collins
Wiley/Available now
The authors present real-world case studies on how to summarize complex projects on a single, information-rich page so you can communicate to get things done.
The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win
By Dave Ulrich, Wendy Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith
McGraw-Hill/Available now
Motivate your IT staff by helping them find more meaning and value in their work by turning projects into personalized experiences.
101 Things I Learned in Business School
By Michael W. Preis with Matthew Frederick
Grand Central Publishing/Available now
Pick up useful tips from Preis and Frederick on leadership, management and other skills.
Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization's Energy and Ignite High Performance
By Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel
Harvard Business Review Press/Available in December
Tools and strategies to avoid workplace complacency and cynicism.
The Frontiers of Management: Where Tomorrow's Decisions Are Being Shaped Today
By Peter Drucker
Harvard Business Review Press/Available in July
Management guru Drucker presents 35 essays to advise CIOs and other senior execs on how to look beyond day-to-day tasks to realize the long-term implications of their decisions.
IT Workers More Confident in Jobs, Economy
The Secret of Apple's Success
Money Woes Take a Toll on Worker Performance
10 Ways to Build Lean, Agile Teams
Tech Salaries Rising After Two-Year Stagnation: Dice Survey
The State of Security: Malware Rises as the Era of Spam Ends
