Hi Christofer, Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas Limoncelli
The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition - Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup All of the USENIX/Sage short topic book series, as quick reference: http://www.usenix.org/publications/short_topics.html I'll also second the recommendation of the Unix System Administration Handbook (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein) and the equivalent Linux book. IT Governance - Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross - I've found that sometimes this helps me visualize the shape of political interactions in differently-organized groups, when I'm stumped as to why things may seem to be logjammed, or moving forward in unexpected ways. And I usually keep a copy of this one to loan out to folks who don't have a perspective on the history of the IT field and only know the newer technologies: Where Wizards Stay Up Late (the origins of the internet) - http://www.chick.net/wizards/wizards.html Since more and more tech books are available online as ebooks, I have fewer hardcopy ones nowadays. But since I transitioned from doing system administration to doing project management a couple years ago, I also have a more leadership/management and project management books on my shelf nowadays than I have tech books... let me know if you'd also be interested in a list of those that I'd consider most useful, and I'm happy to send those along, too. Good luck! -- Adele _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
