Marc's Musings

December 2000
Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace by Ron Zemke, Claire Raines, Bob Filipczak
Great insights on how to work with various age groups. Very valuable in alumni relations!

Credibility : How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It by James S. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
Kouzes and Posner have done it again. This is an easy read and very practical. Credibility is where it’s at!

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
Senge’s book is very popular and extremely thought provoking. I’m not quite sure how to apply this to alumni relations but I know my business-type alum are reading this!

Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
This is my fifth or sixth time through this book. You have to read it!

The Way They Should Go by D. Bruce Lockerbie
This is my second time through this history of The Stony Brook School’s first 50 years. It’s a great resource for my work and contains a lot of the stories of the early days. Too bad it’s out-of-print!

Generating Hope: A Strategy for Reaching the Postmodern Generation
by Jimmy Long
Long doesn’t say much that I haven’t heard before but it’s nice to hear an interested boomer’s perspective on busters. Helpful in gathering language to talk about my generation to other generations.

The Age of Paradox, Charles Handy

Organization Theory And Design, Richard L. Daft (Vanderbilt)

When Men Think Private Thoughts: Exploring the Issues that Captivate the Minds of Men, Gordon MacDonald

Chang and Eng, Darin Strauss

Loving Our Differences: Building Successful Family Relationships, George Selig, Ed.D. & Alan Arroyo, Ed.D.

A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders, Reggie McNeal

The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How To Be One, Peter B. Kyne

Letters to the Great Old Man: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza, Jennifer Lee Hevelone-Harper

Imaginization: New Mindsets for Seeing, Organizing, and Managing, Gareth Morgan

End Time Warriors, John Kelly w/Paul Costa

Permission Marketing, Seth Godin

A Question of Character, Thad Gaebelein & Ron Simmons

Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus

The Professional Service Firm50: Reinventing Work, Tom Peters

Unleashing the Ideavirus, Seth Godin

Questions are the Answers, Allan Pease

Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman F. Cantor

Freedom of Simplicity, Richard J. Foster

The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year, Armin A. Brott

The Joy of Fatherhood: The First Twelve Months, Marcus Jacob Goldman

The Brand You50, Tom Peters

Reckless Hope, Todd Hahn & David Verhaagen

The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis

A Horse & His Boy, C.S. Lewis

The Leadership Challenge, James Kouses & Barry Posner

Managing with a Conscience, Frank K. Sonnenberg

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

Parenting Today’s Adolescent, Dennis & Barbara Rainey

Truly the Community, Marva Dawn

Stone Soup, Marcia Brown

Different Children, Different Needs, Charles F. Boyd

How Now Shall We Live?, Charles Colson & Nancy Percey

The Rule of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Real Time, Regis McKenna

Pour Your Heart Into It, Howard Schultz

The Sacred & the Profane, Mircea Eliade

A Primer on Postmodernism, Stanley J. Grenz

How to be Rich, J. Paul Getty