The Bookworms
Bookworms is a group of Standish and non-Standish contributors that like to read books and who spends a lot of time reading and studying. Bookworms provide reviews with a rating from 5 (best) to 1 (worst) butterflies. The rating is based on the value of the information to project managers, sponsors, and the general success of projects. Bookworms include Jim Johnson, Mark Snow, Jennifer Lynch, and Jim Crear.
Advice Articles
Jim Johnson gives A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates A Whole New Mind 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Ronald Kerremans rates The Adventures of an IT Leader…
Jim Johnson gives Against the Gods four out of five butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Agile Coaching 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Henny Portman reviews Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick ‘Agile Conversations – Transform Your Conversations, Transform your Culture’.
Jim Johnson reads Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture by Douglas Squirrel , Jeffrey Fredrick after Henny Portman’s review.
Jim Johnson rates Agile Estimating and Planning 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Molly Baunach rates Agile Portfolio Management 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Henny Portman reviews Neil Perkin ‘Agile transformation – Structures, processes and mindsets for the digital age’.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is about surviving and even flourishing when things break.
Jennifer Lynch Rates At Home by Bill Bryson 4 out of 5.
Mark Snow rates “Beyond the Goal “ 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch quotes the first principle of economics is a scarcity of resources against unlimited wants.
Mark Snow rates “Blink” 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch suggests that Malcolm Gladwell book titled Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking confirms our...
Stijn Van Looy reviews The Good Sponsor and suggests…
Jim Johnson rates “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” with 5 out of 5 CHAOS Butterflies.
Mark Snow rates “Choke” 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
Jim Johnson rates Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur 3 out of 5 .
Jim Johnson rates “Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right ” 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Standish Team gives “Connections” a CHAOS Rating: 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives “Creating Effective Groups” a CHAOS Rating of 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Death by Meeting 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Decision Latency Theory: It is All About the Interval
Pascal de Haan reviews Decision Latency Theory.
Jim Johnson rates Difficult Conversations 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch rates “Do More Faster” 2 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 3 of 5 butterflies by Daniel Pink.
Jim Johnson gives Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Henny Portman reviews Elizabeth Harrin ‘Engaging stakeholders on projects – How to harness people power’.
Jennifer Lynch rates “Enterprise 2.0” 3 out 5 CHAOS Butterflies.
Hans Mulder reviews the book Enterprise Ontology of professor Dr.ir. Jan Dietz and...
Jim Johnson Rates “Execution” 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Executive Sponsor Research Report
Robert Dirks reviews Executive Sponsor Research Report.
Jim Johnson gives Failing Forward Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success five out of five butterflies.
Mark Snow rates “Finance Basics” 2 out of 5 CHAOS butterflies.
Hans Mulder reviews the books of professor Dr. Jan Hoogervorst, namely "Foundations of Enterprise Governance and Engineering"...
Jennifer Lynch gives “Focus” 2 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Freedom From Fear 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch rates “What Got You Here Won't Get You There” 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds
Jim Johnson gives How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less 4 out of 5.
Jim Johnson gives “Going Lean” 4 out of 5 CHAOS butterflies
Jim Johnson rates The Google Story 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson reviews Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey.
Jim Johnson rate Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, & Using Them to Ignite Your Organization by Jean Lipman-Blumen & Harold Leavitt 4 out 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch rates House of Lies 2 out of 5 butterflies.
How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less
Jim Johnson rates “How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less” by Milo O. Frank 4 out of 5 butterflies.
How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time
Mark Snow rates “How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time” by Milo O. Frank 4 out of 5 butterflies.
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Jim Johnson gives “How To Win Friends and Influence People” 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives “I Can See You Naked” 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives "In Search of the Obvious, The Antidote for Today's Marketing Mess" a rating 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch suggests that Search of the Obvious is a key practice of Infinite Flow.
Jim Johnson rates Influence The Power to Change Anything by authors: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Inspired “Take Your Product Dream from Concept to Shelf” by Vik Venkatraman 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Investment Philosophers and Financial Economists
Jim Johnson gives “Investment Philosophers and Financial Economists” CHAOS Rating: 2 out 5 butterflies.
It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For
Jim Johnson rates “It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For” 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim reviews “The Infinite Game”
Jim reviews “The Infinite Game”
Jim reviews “The Innovator's Dilemma”
Jim reviews “The Innovator's Dilemma”
Jim reviews “The Innovators”
Jim reviews “Think Like a Rocket Scientist”
Jim reviews “Think Like a Rocket Scientist”
Jim reviews “Upstream”
Jim Johnson rates “Laws of Success: In Sixteen Lessons” by Napoleon Hill 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Mohamed Bougharda suggests you read Leadership That Gets Results.
Jim Johnson rates “Lean Start-up” with 4 out of 5 CHAOS butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA four out of five butterflies.
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas
Jim Johnson reviews Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall.
Jim Johnson gives Made to Stick 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Sam Opdenakker rates Making the Difference…
Jim Johnson reviews 'Managing in the Next Society' is a book by Peter F. Drucker.
Jim Johnson rates “How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time” 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates “Microtrends” 3 out of 5 butterflies. Microtrends
Jim Johnson rates “Model Driven Architecture” 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch rates Moneyball 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Dave Bats reviews Our Iceberg is Melting.
Henny Portman reviews Michael K. Levine ‘People Over Process – Leadership for Agility’.
Practical Software Project Estimates
Jennifer Lynch rates Practical Software Project Estimates: A Toolkit for Estimating Software Development & by Peter Hill 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely 3 of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch gives Primal Leadership 4 out of 5 butterflies.
How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior – Anytime, Anyplace is a book written by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Wendy Patrick Mazzarella.
Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker and the Maelstrom of Markets is a book by Charles R. Morris.
Sapiens a brief History of Humankind Review
Tommy Van de Wouwer gives Sapiens, a brief history of humankind…
Servant Leadership: The Struggle for Character
Pieter Borrias rates Servant Leadership..
Jim Crear gives Situational Sponsorship of Projects and Programs 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives The Start-up You a rating of 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People...
Henny Portman reviews Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais ‘Team Topologies – Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow’.
Jim Johnson reads Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow By Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais after Henny Portman’s review.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Jim Crear gives “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 5 out of 5 butterflies.
The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Lieven Coelus rates The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland…
Jim Johnson rates The Canon 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam 3 out of 5 butterflies.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Jim Johnson rates The Five Dysfunctions of a Team 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Hans Mulder reviews the book ‘The Good Mate: How understanding team relationships can make you happier and more productive' by Evan Sorensen and Jim Johnson...
Koen Versavel reviews The Good Sponsor.
Hans Mulder reviews Jim Johnson ‘The good Sponsor’.
Jim Johnson rates The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 5 out or 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch rates The Match King 3 of 5 butterflies.
Joseph Puthenpurackal reviews The Phoenix Project…
Hans Dijckmans suggests that you read the book “The Phoenix Project”
Frederic Crabbé reviews The Phoenix Project…
Jim Johnson gives The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Kurt Tierens reviews The Power of Habit.
Tim Vermeulen rates The Project Saboteur 5 out of 5 butterflies.
The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet
Jim Crear reviews The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet.
The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet
Theo van Leest rates The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet…
Jim Johnson gives The Secret Life of Houdini 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch suggests that team persona diversity is a must as much as skills diversity.
The Ten Faces of Innovation Review
Jim Johnson gives The Ten Faces of Innovation three out of five butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives The Wisdom of Crowds 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson rates The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century written by Thomas L. Friedman five out of five butterflies.
Jim Johnson reviews The Worry-Free Mind, Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You by Carol Kershaw EdD, Bill Wade PhD.
Jim Johnson reviews Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making by Randall Bartlett.
Jennifer Lynch rates Tippecanoe and Tyler Too…
Jim Johnson rates “A Guide to Coping with Difficult People at Work”
Jim Johnson rates Toyota Way 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization...
Jim Johnson rates True Compass 4 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch suggests that focusing on user needs is really hard.
Jim Johnson rates Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business Breakthroughs Rates 5 out of 5 butterflies.
Turn Enemies into Allies: The Art of Peace in the Workplace is...
Jennifer Lynch gives Viral Loop by Adam Penenberg a rating: 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jennifer Lynch gives What Matter Now a rating of 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Jim Johnson gives Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea...
Jim Johnson gives Wired to Care 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives Work Like Da Vinci 3 out of 5 butterflies.
Jim Johnson gives “You Can Negotiate Anything” five out of five butterflies.
Abid Javaid gives “You Can Negotiate Anything” four out of five butterflies.
You can Negotiate Anything Review
Tommy Van de Wouwer gives You can negotiate anything…
Jim Johnson gives Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distractions, Regaining Focus, and Work Smarter All Day Long by David Rock a rating: 4 out of 5 butterflies.
