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This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here .
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Best Sellers Q403 -- The following is a list of Amazon items purchased by the community of my weblog and site readers during the last quarter of 2003. While most have been discussed in these pages or listed in my "bookshelf ," there are a few new ones as well that might be of interest (which I've noted). Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed - 6 The Project Management Scorecard: Measuring the Success of Project Management Solutions - 2 (new to me) Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results - 2 Critical Chain Project Management - 1 Deming and Goldratt - 2 Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition - 1 (new to me) For People-And for Profit: A Business Philosophy for the 21st Century - 1 (new to me) It's Not Luck - 1 Managing the Design Factory - 1 Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology - 1 (new to me) Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self - 1 (new to me) Product Design and Development - 1 (new to me) Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs - 1 (new to me) The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 1 The Innovation Paradox : The Success of Failure, the Failure of Success - 1 (new to me) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series) - 1 The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth - 1 The Memory Jogger II - 1 The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters! - 1 (new to me) Thinking Beyond Lean: How Multi-Project Management Is Transforming Product Development at Toyota and Other Companies - 1 (new to me)
And to show that we're not about "all work and no play..."
The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) - 2 Harrison: Piano Concerto/Suite For Violin, Piano And Small Orchestra - 1 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould - 1 Babylon 5 - The Complete Fourth Season - 1 Funny Bones - 1 Thanks for supporting my blogging efforts through the use of my Amazon links for your purchases. I'm using the minimal "kickbacks" to add to my reading...which should, in time, add to yours.
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