In Nothing to Fear: Lessons in Leadership from FDR, Alan Axelrod presents us with the intersection of modern day business leadership and the historical evidence of this great leader. I am certainly not in line with many of the political stances of President Roosevelt, nor do I agree with some of my more liberal friends who believe he was the greatest President in history. I do however believe that he may qualify as one of, if not the greatest leader to hold the position. Axelrod's book is in
This is the third "edition" of Cooper's excellent book on human computer interaction design. Cooper's primary tenet in these books is that software is poorly designed, primarily because programmers don't understand what users need and users don't know how to articulate those needs. He argues that designers are needed as intermediates to translate what users really need into terms that programmers can program to.