What We're Reading from the May 1 issue of CIO magazine
Suggested reading from the staff of CIO magazine
The Power of Many
Values for Success in Business and in Life
By Meg Whitman with Joan O’C. Hamilton
The former president and CEO of eBay (and current candidate for governor of California) has a simple thesis: Doing what’s right and running a business well aren’t mutually exclusive. She says the online auction giant thrived on the belief that most people are basically good. The book features a plethora of anecdotes, including an inside look at what happened during the 22-hour period in June of 1999 when eBay essentially “vaporized.” Crown Publishing Group, $26.00
By Jonathan Schwartz
Blog Now that Sun Microsystems is just another Oracle subsidiary, its former president and CEO is promising to dish stories he never could have shared when he was leading the company. There’s only one so far, but it’s a biggie—staring down both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates over threatened intellectual property lawsuits. Schwartz pulls no punches, calling Microsoft’s licensing proposal “the digital version of a protection racket.” If you read this one and can’t wait for his next post, you can always occupy yourself with his massive archive from the years before the sale.
Making Ideas Happen
Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
By Scott Belsky
Book “Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen,” declares the book’s inner flap. Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, studied how companies from Apple to Zappos make inspiration reality. He pinpointed the biggest stumbling blocks and created a system for bypassing them. Tips big—“kill ideas liberally”—and small—“conduct standing meetings”—come with bite-sized explanations and implementation tips, making it easy
to read the book in spare moments or pick out just
the information that’s most relevant to you.
Portfolio, $25.95
By IT Experts
Blog even writers with varied IT backgrounds contribute to this frequently updated blog covering everything from why it’s critical to know where your SaaS apps are hosted to why CEOs need to take more responsibility for IT problems. Here’s a tidbit from the latter: “For most CIOs, this isn’t news; you’re the ones that have been rolling your eyes in meetings and watching the CEO take a nap as you raised issue after issue, only to find him breathing down your neck the instant something you predicted actually goes wrong.”
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