Kevin Dooley—Personal Info

(Updated 3.15.03)

 

For general frolic and fun, visit the Homemaker from Heck web site.  This includes some of my musical compositions.

 

Recent Good Books I’ve Read

Erving Goffman, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”

Anthony Giddens, “Modernity and Self-Identity”

Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell, “Shackleton’s Way”

Alfred Lansing, “Endurance”

Robert Lacey, “The Year 1000”

Ming-Jer Chen, “Inside Chinese Business”

Shakespeare, “Hamlet”

 

Books That Have Influenced My Professional Work:

·        Walter Shewhart, “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”

·        Edward deBono, “Six Thinking Hats”

·        Edward deBono, “I am Right, You are Wrong”

·        James Gleick, “Chaos”

·        Peitgen, Jurgens, and Saupe, “Fractals and Chaos”

·        Ian Stewart, “Does God Play Dice”

·        I. Progogine and I. Stengers, “Order Out of Chaos”

·        Kevin Kelly, “Out of Control”

·        Stuart Kauffman, “At Home in the Universe”

·        Per Bak, “How Nature Works”

·        Roger Lewin, “Complexity”

·        Ev Rogers, “The Diffusion of Innovation”

·        Steve Guastello, “Chaos, Catastrophe, and Human Affairs”

·        Jeff Goldstein, “The Unshackled Organization”

·        Richard DeVor et al., “Statistical Quality Design and Control”

·        Kim Clark and Steven Wheelwright, “Managing New Product and Process Development”

·        Andy Van de Ven et al., “The Innovation Journey

·        Clayton Christensen, “The Innovator’s Dilemma”

·        W. Edwards Deming, “Out of the Crisis”

·        James Utterback, “Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation”

·        Chris Argyris and Don Schon, “Organizational Learning”

·        Peter Senge, “The Fifth Discipline”

·        Joseph Juran and Frank Gyrna, “Quality Planning and Analysis”

·        Pandit and Wu, “Time Series and Systems Analysis with Applications”

·        Thomas Kuhn, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

·        C.I. Lewis, “Mind and World Order”

·        Herbert Simon, “Administrative Behavior”

·        Karl Weick, “The Social Psychology of Organizing”

·        George Box et al., “Statistics for Experimenters”

·        Jim March, “A Primer on Decision Making”

·        Richard Scott, “Institutions and Organizations”

·        M. Csikzentmihalya, “Flow”

·        Gareth Morgan, “Imaginization”, “Images of Organizations”

·        Robert Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” “Lila”

·        Bucky Fuller, “Critical Path”

·        Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene”

·        Al Toffler, “Third Wave”

·        CP Snow, “The Two Cultures”

·        Ron Burt, “Structural Holes”

·        A Giddens, “The Constitution of Society”

 

 

What Music I’ve Been Listening To Lately…

·        Uninvisible--Medeski, Martin, and Wood

·        Demons Dance Alone—The Residents

·        Plunderphonics—John Oswald

·        Poses; First Album--Rufus Wainwright

·        Anything from the “weird” or “experimental” category from IUMA

·        Under Rug Swept--Allanis Morrisette

·        Live in NYC—Laurie Anderson

·        Alice—Tom Waits

·        Sea Change—Beck

·        Grand Opening and Closing—Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum

·        Two Graduated Jiggers—Jon Wayne

·        Prison Songs Vol. 1

·        Big Time—Robin Holcomb

·        Live at Roseland Theatre—Ratdog

·        There and Back Again—Phil Lesh

·        Naïve and Sentimental Music—John Adams

·        4+1 Ensemble—Wayne Horvitz

·        King Crimson—Heavy Construktion

 

 

Favorite Movies, 2002

(Of course I don’t know about the ones I haven’t seen yet!)

The two best by far: The Pianist; Bowling for Columbine

Others: Monsoon Wedding; Metropolis; Pumpkin; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Mostly Martha; Fast Runner; About Schmidt

From Recent Years: Amelie (2001); American Beauty (1999); Band of Brothers (2001); Being John Malkovich (1999); Best in Show (2000); Buffalo 66 (1998); Cast Away (2000); Fight Club (1999); Pi (1998); South Park (1999); Sweet and Lowdown (1999); Wonderboys (2000)