Scrum. The art of doing twice the work in half the time. Jeff Sutherland. 2014. ISBN 978038534645.  The author was the co creator of SCRUM.  He has had a fascinating career and a major impact on how software projects are managed today.  This book is one pat about SCRUM and another part about how it can be applied (and is applied) to any team based endeavor. It is clear, concise and fascinating.  I read it in one sitting, so it is a good four plane ride book.  A very good book for leaders who want to make productive changes in their organization.

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The trip of a life time, October in  Western Turkey ( Aegean yachting) and Rhodes ( the easy life)

Three posts by my wife. with all the pictures you need

at Anordman@blogspot.com, or click the links

Yachting the Aegean

All roads lead to Rhodes

Circle Island tour of Rhodes

Zero to One. Notes on startups, or now to build the future. Peter Thiel.2014. ISBN 9780804139298.  When a founder of Paypal and a core member of the Paypal mafia writes a book like this, you take note.   It was been touted in the much of the press, and it deserves to be.  I found myself agreeing with the author time after time.  His approaches to education,  investing, technology, and a myriad of other  interrelated topics  showed to be a very insightful mind and someone to learn from. This book is compiled from a series of lectures given on start ups  at Stanford, thus each chapter has been well thought through and distilled to an easy to assimilate essence. I especially enjoyed his power laws

A great book for every CEO to take note of

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Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration. Ed Catmull.2014. ISBN 9780307361172.  This book sat on my reading shelf  for quite sometime, and now I regret not reading it sooner.  It is a very good book on innovation and how to nurture it. I especially admire the lessons on candor and looking for the hidden forces that cause great companies to lose their way.   I read it in about three sittings as it was so compelling and clearly put.  A book not to be ignored and it deserves to be on every CEOs shelf, well thumbed, and re read often.

• Unleash Pixar-like Creativity in Your Supply Chain Management Organization (kinaxis.com)
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• Valorie Zimmerman: Candor and trust (linuxgrandma.blogspot.com)