ESD
Faculty Summer Reading List
Summer
2006
Joseph
M. Sussman
JR East Professor
Professor of Civil & Environmental
Engineering
and Engineering Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 5, 2006
Building
on our three-year tradition of an
ESD faculty summer reading list, here
we go for a fourth year. This year
we highlight three books by ESD faculty,
published during the past 12 months.
They represent the broad sweep of
intellectual activity in ESD, ranging
from two different takes on enterprises—Joel
Cutcher-Gershenfeld’s commentary
on the McGregor classic on enterprises
from the human perspective and Yossi
Sheffi’s view of the “resilient”
enterprise that can operate effectively
in the complex environment of natural
and man-made disasters—and Tom
Kochan’s book on the need for
effectively coupling the worlds of
work and family, in a sense considering
that as a broad integrated enterprise.
Take
a look at these insightful views of
contemporary society from your ESD
colleagues!
 Joel
Cutcher-Gershenfeld—The
Human Side of Enterprise,
Dr. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
has updated and provided new
commentary for this annotated
edition of The Human Side
of Enterprise by Douglas
McGregor, McGraw-Hill, 2006.In
the book, Dr. Cutcher-Gershenfeld
illustrates how today’s
leaders have successfully incorporated
McGregor’s methods into
modern management styles and
practices. He also identifies
the management challenges –
illuminated by McGregor –
that remain central to managerial
and societal success.
Dr. Cutcher-Gershenfeld is Executive
Director, MIT Engineering Systems
Learning Center and Senior Research
Scientist, MIT Sloan School
of Management, and Co-director
of the Center for Technology,
Policy, and Industrial Development
(CTPID) project on Labor Aerospace
Research and of CTPID’s
Working Group on Lateral Alignment
in Complex Systems. |
 Yossi
Sheffi—The
Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming
Vulnerability for Competitive
Advantage. A business book
best-seller, The Resilient
Enterprise received rave
reviews from the Wall
Street Journal,
New York Times
and The Economist,
as well as dozens of trade journals.
It was also recognized by the
Financial Times as one of the
best business books of 2005.
The Resilient Enterprise
provides a clear plan for managing
corporate disaster and disruption.
From fires and earthquakes to
labor strikes and terror attacks,
Dr. Sheffi provides a rich set
of lessons on how to prepare
for and manage the many business
shocks of today's global market.
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is Professor
of Engineering Systems and Civil
and Environmental Engineering,
Director of the Center for Transportation
and Logistics, and Director
of the Master of Engineering
in Logistics (MLOG) Program |
 Tom
Kochan—Restoring
the American Dream: A Working
Families' Agenda for America.
Publisher's Weekly called this
an "earnest and meticulous
volume...in which...(Dr. Thomas)
Kochan argues that Americans
need to view work and family
as 'tightly coupled issues'
so that the former can be managed
to complement the latter...(Its
ideas) await a candidate and
movement ready to translate
Kochan's 'vision for the longer
term' into a workable plan."
Dr. Thomas Kochan is George
Maverick Bunker Professor of
Management and Professor of
Engineering Systems. He is also
Co-director of the Institute
for Work and Employment Research
at MIT Sloan School of Management
and Co-director of the MIT Workplace
Center. |
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