That's right, it's that time again...yep, when I post my currently reading list so you can get a closer look at my thought process. Here are the books in no particular order:
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C. Maxwell
One of my friends from work let me borrow this book from him so I get more acquinted with the qualities of a leader. I'm at chapter 8 and it's pretty good...it takes me a while to go through the book since I have to pause and re-think of the different times when I had such "leader" experience...whether if it was me or my manager at the time. It's a nice break from the technical books.
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
I was first told about this book from Nick to help me deal with some of the non-techinal problems I had at work (getting my ideas through with some members of the team). I'm in chapter 6 right now and I must say, that the book takes "common sense" and puts nice examples around it. In particular I find it interesting the prose for the book ... the language and style used is reminescent of its time (the book was first published in 1936). I find this a great companion for Maxwell's reading.
Winning - Jack Welch
Well, I'm not reading this book per-se but I'm actually listening to it ... yes, I bought the audio book. I must say this is my first audio book and I'm pretty happy with it. The only thing that sucked is that when I ripped the CD into MP3s (it was cheaper than buying the whole MP3 from iTunes) some of the files didn't have the ID3 tag information. So I had to use ID3-TagIT to update the information so it can be pulled correctly on my Zune. Pretty good stuff!