My books – always in draft, always available
 | Manage Without Them by Matthew De George Read the book Buy on LeanPub |
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Books I Recommend
These are some books I recommend – mainly related to my work. I didn’t write any of them, obviously:
  | The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 – The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9) | |
  | Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution | Shows that EA is about organisational design and strategy and can be more than its IT-centric foundations. |
  | Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning |
Contains a reference to my favourite quote re: strategic planning: “A good deal of corporate planning … is like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. … Moreover, much of the advice related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.” – Brian Quinn
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  | Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World | Great bit of history of the origins of the “strategy industry”. Shows how strategy consulting evolved with the management of conglomerates. Interesting to see how various 2x2s we all know became “products”. |