collaboration and user information recommendations

This past week has been a whirl of serendipitous and convergent reading recommendations.

Could be I'm more receptive to suggestions for reading material because I'm looking at a transatlantic flight in March that'll outlast my MacBook Pro battery life by a multiple of five.

So, I've just placed my Amazon order for the following, and I don't know if I'll be able to wait until the plane ride before cracking the spines:

• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Brafman and Beckstrom. The metaphor in the title conveys the core concept of the book. Although a starfish and a spider have similar shapes (somewhat), their internal structure is dramatically different - a cut off the head of a spider and it eventually dies, while a starfish can regenerate an entirely new self from a single amputated leg. Lots to learn about leaderless and decentralized organizations.
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Tapscott. It's been recommended to me as a must read for anyone with a career arc toward mass collaboration on a global scale.
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) by Krug. Seeing this second edition added a chapter titled "Usability as Common Courtesy" and collapsed three chapters around user testing into a single one was more than enough to get me to add it to the Amazon shopping cart.
  

Can't wait to tuck into these. If you follow the links above, you may find that Amazon bundles the first two on the list together for additional savings.