谢谢Jennifer和她的朋友，不然我也就现在看不到这本书。（PS,如果你对这本书感兴趣，请访问这里）。

为什么早上写日记？写日记是为了什么？

早上写日记的好处在于，你写完了，马上就采取行动去实现，而不是等到第二天再去做。当你在热情最高的时候去做你要做的事情，而不是什么都不做。

早上写日记，更能敦促我们要注意控制做事情的时间。晚上写日记，养成的结果就是，我们习惯在没有压力的情况下做事，因为我们可以将晚上的入睡时间不断往后推。

不要仅仅是记录下事情或当时的情绪，而要都记录下来。仅仅记录情绪，之后你就忘记的当时发生的什么，对你以后没有作用。我们记日记不仅是为了记录发生了什么，而是希望能够对以后有所帮助。

当然，这本书不仅在说要早上写日记，作者还提出了一种写日记的方法。但方法的实践，倒还是有待摸索。尚不是特别清楚。

Thanks to 乱翻书, who translated it into Chinese and posted it on Yeeyan.com. Without his work, I think many people in China, like me, will be unable to read this book.

This books does teach me something. Well, I don’t want to talk about much on blog.

If you’re interested in this book, why not go to www.yeeyan.com and read it? Yeeyan is a good website, I like it. and I believe you will like it as well.

Well, I have to get ready for my graduate thesis now.

At first, I would take some time to read books written by Peter Weill and some other authors about the relation between business and IT. I’d like to take the relation between business and IT as my graduate thesis. I hope in this area, I can find something interesting.

overview of the book

l chapter 2: introduce the first discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the operating model and its two key dimensions—business process standardization and integration. Four different types of operating models are described: Unification, Coordination, Replication, and Diversification.

l Chapter 3: introduce the second discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the enterprise architecture. The key elements—digitized business processes, IT infrastructure, shard data, and customer interfaces—are indentified and linked in the enterprise architecture. The one-page core diagram is introduced, and comparative diagrams are developed for each of the four operating models.

l Chapter 4: the four stages of enterprise architecture maturity: business silos, standardized technology, optimized core, and business modularity.

l Chapter 5: how companies get unique business benefits at each of the four stage s of maturity by using various management practices and roles. We explain how achieving these benefits require implementing different management mechanisms at each stage to formalize organizational learning.

l Chapter 6: The third discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the IT engagement model. The IT engagement model has three ingredients; IT governance, project management, and linkages connecting the two. A good engagement model enables a company to build its foundation one project at a time.

l How outsourcing can contribute to enterprise architecture maturity but warn that outsourcing success is far from guaranteed. To improve the likelihood of success, we show how to use the operating model and enterprise architecture to determine what and when to outsource. We distinguish between three different types of outsourcing—strategic partnerships, co-sourcing alliances, and transaction relationships.

l Chapter 8: make the urgent case for increased agility in companies that must compete in a global economy.

l Chapter 9: summarizes the key ideas in the book with a review of the symptoms of an ineffective foundation for execution. We follow with a set of six steps for rethinking your foundation for execution. Then we provide ten leadership principles for building and leveraging a foundation for execution.

七个天才团队的故事

作者: （美）本尼斯 / （美）比德尔曼
译者: 张慧倩

ISBN: 9787300087023
页数: 210
定价: 39.8
出版社: 中国人民大学出版社
装帧: 平装
出版年: 2008-1-1

附：一个阅读评论。

第8个天才团队的故事

摘录：http://www.douban.com/review/1468520/

独特并不是一件坏事。因为我们大多数人都无法独特。要考虑别人的想法，大家的想法，唯独不考虑自己的想法。没有人能讨好所有人，最好的办法，就是做一个有特色的自己。

要先尊重别人，先要尊重自己，站稳自己的立场。用成果说话，你要是一边做事，一边听周围的人唠叨。多半把自己的心情给败坏了。

有句很俗的话，就是：做回你自己。你是头儿，你就该站稳自己的立场。没有威信和强势，谁也不会把你的话当真。

Asking the Right Questions

作者: Neil Browne / Stuart M. Keeley

副标题: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)
ISBN: 9780132203043
页数: 212
定价: USD 41.20
出版社: Prentice Hall
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 2006-02-10

This is a wonderful book!

Everyday, we talk with others about one thing or another. Someone proposes their opinions and used evidences to support their standing point.

You might not quite agree with them, but you don’t know how to criticise their idea, or even, what they are talking about? You are lost. This book, will teach you how to think of thing and ask the right questions to make you know think better.

The book provides 11 questions for you, which help you have a

1. What are the issues and the conclusions?

2. What are the reasons?

3. Which words or phrases are ambiguous?

4. What are the value conflicts and assumptions?

5. What are the descriptive assumptions?

6. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?

7. How good is the evidence?

8. Are there rival causes?

9. Are the statistics deceptive?

10. What significant information is omitted?

11. What reasonable conclusions are possible?