The
Engineering
Manager's
Book Shelf

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The following books are recommended reading for engineers and engineering managers.  These books have been nominated by experienced engineering professionals, and is maintained by Mark Polczynski, Engineering Director of Marquette University's Master of Science in Engineering Management Program.

If you would like to nominate a book, please contact the webmaster.  The only criteria for your nomination are:

1. You are or have been an engineering professional,
2. The book significantly changed the way you work,
3. You have actually read the book from cover to cover!

Thank you for your interest, looking forward to your nominations.  (Please note the category of your nomination).

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Contemporary
Books that are changing the way we work:

• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, Clayton M. Christensen (1997)

• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Clayton M. Christensen (2003)

• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World's Greatest Manufacturer, Jeffrey Liker (2003)

• Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones ( 2003)

• Managing the Design Factory, Donald G. Reinertsen (1997)
  

• Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, Preston, G. Smith, Donald G. Reinertsen (1997)

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman (2006)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Jim Collins (2001)
  
  
• China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, Ted C. Fishman (2006)
  

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck (2002)

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Classic
Books that have significantly impacted the way we view the world:

• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Peter M, Senge (1994)

• The Goal, Eliahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (1992)

• Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, John Naisbitt (1988)

• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies , Thomas J. Peters, Robert H Waterman (1988)

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Quick Read
Interesting and entertaining books with an important message:

• Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard (1998)

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