The Overlap Blog

A bit of a hodge-podge list, but here we go (and I’m sorry about the way some of the lists run together but this f’ng WordPress editor keeps taking out my BR tags and doesn’t recognize carriage returns in the semi-WYSIWYG (well not all of them) and really I can’t spend any more time on perfecting the visual appearance of a list)
Orbiting the Giant Hairball but more important is Shaping Things

politics lost: how american democracy was trvialized by people who think you are stupid by joe klein (About the rise of pollsters and political consultants since the late 60’s

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes

Artful Making
Hard Industries
The Argumentative Indian
Territorial Imperative
Cliche to Archetype
Innovator’s Solution
Blue Ocean Strategy
Strategic Innovation and Management of Technology
Less Than Zero
Descartes’ Error
Actor Network Theory (wikipedia - Bruno Latour)
Don’t Think of an Elephant
Intro to NLP, by O’Connor (NeuroLinguistic Programming)
Difficult Conversations
Words That Change Minds
Bowling Alone
Smart Mobs
Diffusion of Innovations

Christo and Jeanne-Claude : An Authorized Biography by Bert Chernow & Wolfgang Volz

Team of Rivals - the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Mr. China: A Memoir
Tom Clissold
One Billion Customers : Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
James McGregor
Chinese Negotiating Style
Lucian W. Pye
Tribes : How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy
Joel Kotkin

can’t wait to read:
American Pharaoh : Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor

magazines:

The New Republic

Make

The New Yorker

TV (all on Comedy Central, go figure):

The Mind of Mencia

South Park

The Colbert Report

The Brand Gap

Marty Neumeier

Manging the Professional Service Firm

David Maister

Strategy Safari

Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, Bruce Ahlstrand

Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking by Devyani Saltzman

99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style by Matt Madden (also see exercisesinstyle.com)

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