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Scott Brenner's "Jim McGee's reading list for aspiring knowledge workers"

From McGee’s post…
"...If you want to improve your skills as a knowledge worker, you are pretty much confined to some form of self-directed learning strategy… I suspect that you could complete this reading in less than a year if you chose to."

http://futuretense.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/a_reading_list_for_aspiring_knowledge_workers.php

1. Mindfulness
by Ellen J. Langer
 
2. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
by Donald A. Schon
 
3. Teaching as a Subversive Activity
by Neil Postman
 
4. Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
by Peter B. Vaill
 
5.
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Filters against Folly
by Garrett Hardin
 
6. Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
by Patricia Ryan Madson
 
7. How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)
by Mortimer J. Adler
 
8. Writing without Teachers
by Peter Elbow
 
9. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
 
10. Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
by Gerald M. Weinberg
 
11. The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential
by Tony Buzan
 
12. Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
by James L. Adams
 
13. Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)
by Christopher Alexander
 
14. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
by Donald C. Gause
 
15. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
 
16. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
by Twyla Tharp
 
17. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
 
18. Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
by Peter Block
 
19. The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
by Peter Block
 
20. Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers
by Thomas H. Davenport
 
21. Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by Gerald M. Weinberg
 
22. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
by Louis Rosenfeld
 
23. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt
 
24.
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Information Anxiety  
25. Information Anxiety 2
by Richard Saul Wurman
 
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Created by Scott Brenner on Jun 09, 2006.