Reading List

Each issue, Management for Design selects reading material that may be of interest to design businesses. Our spring issue selection follows:

The E myth Architect - Michael Gerber / Norbert C. Lemermeyer

Liberate yourself from the predictable and often overwhelming tyranny of unprofitable, unproductive, and time-consuming routines. Transform yourself from a successful architectural technician into a successful architect-manager-entrepreneur and rethink your practice, shifting from tactical to strategic thinking.

How to work a room - Susan Roane

How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, or even communicating online. Roane shows how to overcome the five roadblocks that keep most people from making new contacts.

The ABC of XYZ - Mark McCrindle

Understanding the Global Generations is designed for educators, business managers and parents who want a short and lively introduction to Australia’s living generations. The book explores what a generation is, how its definition has changed over the years, and the trends that are emerging for the future.

Into thin air - Jon Krakouer

This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy.

Drive Daniel - H. Pink

In this provocative and persuasive new book, Pink asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.