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	Thinking for a Living by Thomas H. DavenportAs the world moved from the industrial age to the information age, how people work, learn and interact has changed as well. You can’t write a simple procedure or script to get the work products needed to succeed. It doesn’t work for the individual or the leader. Successful management of information and collaboration have become survival imperatives for today’s companies. In this book Mr. Davenport creates a simplistic taxonomy of knowledge workers based on the complexity of the work and the level of collaboration needed to get a job done and uses that as a framework to present ideas about how to interact and intervene with the folks that get it done: the knowledge worker. A couple of key take aways: 1) Leaders most think about and coach both individuals and teams about how to manage information and use it effectively in their day to day operations. 2) Knowledge networks are important. The most effective individuals were often the ones that had great working relations with people both within and outside their immediate organizational and company structure. 3) The web and applications such as wiki’s and RSS readers are great tools for integration learning and collaboration into busines process. We have to keep looking for ways to organize information and making it readily available to the knowledge workers. There’s good information in here you can use to help you look for and nurture great people, and understand some of the environmental issues surrounding creating an effective knowledge management culture.
	Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer with Juan J. PerezComing soon.

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