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September 2010 S M T W T F S 1 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 3 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 4 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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Suggested Reading

Health Research Strategic Documents

 

"Vision 20/20: The Future of Health Care in Alberta" by Alberta Health and Wellness.

 

"AAET's Alberta Action Plan" by Alberta's Advanced Education and Technology.

AAET has an excellent newsletter that discusses important topics relevant to our group

 

To learn more about the future of research in Alberta, view the Alberta Health and Wellness Research Forum Report.

 

The April 19th Edition of the Economist has a special report on health care and technology.

 

 

Health Care Innovation

 

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals. 2010. Peter Pronovost.

 

Corporate Communications

 

Corporate Conversations: A guide to crafting effective and appropriate internal communications. 2004. Shel Holtz.

 

The New Rules of Marketing and PR. 2010. David Meerman Scott.

 

 

Web Usability and Social Networking Resources

 

Emotional Design. 2004. Donald. A. Norman.

Design of Everyday Things. 2002. Donald. A. Norman.

Don't Make Me Think! - A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Steve Krug.

Designing for the Social Web. 2008. Joshua Porter.

Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities. 2009. Etienne Wenger,
Nancy White, John D. Smith.

Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction.
2010. Ben Shneiderman, Catherina Plaisant.

 

Usability Engineering. 1993. Jakob Nielsen.

A Practical Guide to Usability Testing. 1999. Joseph S. Dumas, Janice Redish.

Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. 1998. Hugh Beyer,
Karen Holtzblatt.

 

Human Computer Interaction. 2004. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D.
Abowd.

Personal and Organizational Leadership 

 

Bridges, William (2004). Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes. Cambridge: Da Capo Press.

 

Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2003). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R., & McKee A. (2004). Primal leadership: Learning to lead with emotional intelligence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

 

Handy, C. (2002, Spring). Elephants and fleas: Is your organization prepared for change? Leader to Leader, 24, 29–33.

 

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2002). The leadership challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Quinn, R. E. (2004), Building the bridge as you walk on it: A guide for leading change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Quinn, R. E. (1996). Deep change: Discovering the leader within. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Schein, E. H. (2004). Organizational culture and leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

 

Senge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (2nd ed.). Toronto: Currency Doubleday.

 

Vaill, Peter. B (1996) Learning as a way of being: Strategies for survival in a world of permanent white water. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Synder, W.M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice. Harvard Business School Press.

 

Wheatley, Margaret. (2002). Supporting pioneer leaders. Retrieved on March 8, 2007, from:http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/supportingpioneerleaders.html.