Crohn's & Colitis

Fiscal Stimulus - Hall

Five Minds for the Future - Gardner

The Crucible - Miller

The Warping of Government Work - Donahue

The Seven Sins of Memory - Schacter

Because It Is Wrong - Fried & Fried

Justice What's the Right Thing to Do - Sandel

Conditions Under Which Employees Respond Positively to Enriched Work - Hackman

Psychological Contributions to Organizational Productivity - Hackman

The Winner's Brain - Brown & Fenske

Driven To Lead - Lawrence

Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees - Warneken and Tomasello

Using brain - based measures to compose teams - Hackman

The Nurture Assumption - Harris

Who Killed Change - Blanchard

the facebook effect - Kirkpatrick

Changing Minds - Howard Gardner

Senior Leadership Teams - Hackman, et al

Private Clubs in America

The Lost Symbol - Brown

The Grand Design - Hawking

The Innovator's Dilemma - Christensen

Sway - Brafman

the invisible gorilla - Chabris amd Simons

The Upside of Irrationality - Ariely

Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders - Shane

Strangers to Ourselves - Wilson

Discovering the adaptive unconscious.

Psychology - Gray

Sh*t My Dad Says

Pretty close to my upbringing. Very funny.

Atlas Shrugged

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice - HBS

What's Next - Brockman

This is a compilation of cutting edge interdisciplinary research. Josh Greene has an essay in this, which is why it was bought and read it.

Power - Robert Greene

Interesting take on the sources of power; a bit harsh and certainly specific to power.

Mindset The New Psychology of Success - Dweck

Fixed or Growth are the two mindsets. Fixed is simply that you feel predisposed to be how you are. Growth means that you learn from experiences and do not fear new experiences or possible failure.

The Moral Animal - Wright

Sources of Power How People Make Decisions - Klein

Ah, not enough real research and a whole bunch of conjecture. Some good ideas though. The guy was married to firefighters and pilots - couldn't he find somebody else to track.

Changing Minds - Howard Gardner

This professor teaches Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The book was very informative and I've already begun to implement many of the theories - one of which is a winner and I'm sending it to you separately.

Leading Teams

Wow, I love real researchers.

His research tells us simply that teams work - or not - well, it depends. Of course it depends. A poorly structured team will suck regardless of the dynamics of the leader and a well defined and structured team will be successful without a great leader; however, a great leader will make a difference at the margin.

Fruit Flies of the Moral Mind: Greene

He does a lot with the fMRI and I'm interested in where he's heading with this.

Influence

The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande - I'm looking forward to his lecture.

The book tells stories of his quest to insert a checklist into surgery and many stories of its success.

Deepening Democracy

This was referred to me by your Law School, the author is a Harvard professor. At any rate, the book outlines deliberative democracy. Unfortunately, success requires that the deliberators are somewhat selfless and willing to do what's the greater good. Oh, well.

Greene: The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul

Seems to differentiate deontological and consequentialist moral judgement. Just when I thought I had a label it escaped me.

I guess I need to read Kant. I need to figure out what determines morality; 'cause it appears I ain't gettin' it.

The critiques were interesting.

Switch - How to Change Things When Change is Hard

The Heath brothers.

Unfortunately, it hinted at a self help book; however, many of the concepts have good research behind them. Basically, it's about the three components of making change: logic, emotion and direction. No one component will allow a change to continue - all three need to be addressed.

The book was a valuable read and one that I am actually using.

The Quants

This book is about the mathematical geniuses that made billions investing. It's very interesting; however, the author is rather immature and the timelines are confusing. But, the point is made. I thought the best part was the fact that two firms were successful and the statement was made "They were just smarter than the rest." I liked that.

Made to Stick

Written by brothers, and, yes they mention that one is a Stanford professor of behavioral science and the other did research at Harvard.

Kinda like Gladwell, only they did some of their own research. Good insights into communication mechanisms that allow you to get folks to remember what you said.

The most important parts seem to be that we must keep in mind the core message, sometimes we confuse ourselves and secondly, make it specifically simple.

Anyway, a good read.

On the Brink

The days of decision making for Treasury Secretary Paulson were very well written. Assuming that his portrayal is accurate it was very interesting to read about the stress of the situation and the way the group worked together to solve the puzzles.

Dirty work, clean hands: The moral psychology of indirect agency: Greene, et al

Yeah, interesting stuff; however, I don't see the questions as being quite so black and white. Although, my answers would have been in line with the normal folk.

Did you get a candy bar or $3 for taking your retard quiz?

Cognition: Greene, et al

Interesting point of the experiment:
The instructions acknowledged that the dilemmas were not necessarily realistic and requested that subjects "suspend disbelief." Data from 31 (of 664) subjects who reported being unable/unwilling to suspend disbelief ("conscious realists") were excluded form the analysis, as were data from 10 subjects reporting confusion.
First of all "form" should have been from - that's just to clarify the next point, being that there are more of us out there than just you and me who take these test and are confused.

So, this pertains to the trolley deal where you have the choice of pitching somebody in front of the trolley killing one to save five. I feel very good about my situation because being confused by the time I made a decision it would have been over.

Also interesting is that the test subjects were 271 females, 337 males and 12 genders unknown. Does that have something to do with the retardation issue. How is a gender unknown, and if they can't discern their gender how valid is their response - or were ten of those the confused folk?

Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions

Greene and Paxton

Yep, this was new territory for me - honest moral decisions - I can do honest and I can do moral, but the combination is a stretch.

Attitude by Banaji and Heiphetz

Interesting for certain.

I need to get used to how papers are written in order to get more from the content. A great deal of effort was spent in how the work was created. I'll catch on.

The Hidden Brain

Book was suggested by Dr. Banaji.

Look at the Birdie

I really enjoy the depth of the short stories.

At first I thought the endings were blunt and short; however, I found them thought provoking and really enjoyable.

Here, the People Rule

Fundamentals of the Constitution.

Richard D. Parker

Democracy and disagreement

Text on the basics of democracy.

Gutmann and Dennis Thompson

The Big Breakfast Diet

This caught my interest because it is written by an MD who appears to have some sound research behind her assertions; also, I've had an inkling that timing of meals makes a difference.

We'll see.