Omniquest

Omniquest is a university-wide program, overlaying all other programs, in which a provocative and challenging book is selected each term. The theme of the book is adopted for discussion and analysis during that term on all campuses and within all programs, simultaneously.

“The first and most important thing to get across to the students is they need to be more diverse in their reading than just textbooks. We want them to have a broader exposure.”
Dr. Margaret Colarelli, Chair of the Language Arts Department, Northwood University

Current Academic Year: 2008-2009

Fall 2008

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Winter 2008

Capitalism At The Crossroads, 2nd Edition by Stuart L. Hart

Spring 2009

TBD

Past OMNIQUEST selections:

2007-2008

Where Have All The Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca
The Science of Success by Charles G. Koch
New Ideas from Dead CEO's by Todd Buchholz

2006-2007

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

• An Army of Davids:  How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths by Glenn Reynolds, 2006, Nelson Current, ISBN: 159555042

2005-2006

• Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni  
• Cleaning Up by Barry Minkow 
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

2004-2005

• Good to Great by Jim Collins 
• The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw

2003-2004

• Founding Brothers (The Revolutionary Generation) by Joseph J. Ellis 
• Homesick by Sela Ward 
• Sailing Alone & Around the Room by Billy Collins

2002-2003

• Ben Franklin's 12 Rules of Management by Blaine McCormick 
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander 
• Make It BIG: 49 Secrets for Building a Life of Extreme Success by Frank McKinney with Victoria St. George

2001-2002

• Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen 
• Living a Life That Matters by Harold S. Kushner 
• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley

2000-2001

• The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 
• No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith by Janann Sherman

1999-2000 

• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom 
• How Now Shall We Live? by Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey 
• Permission Marketing by Seth Godin

1998-1999

• Leading with Soul by Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal 
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff…and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson 
• The Northwood Idea: People Helping People

1997-1998

• In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson 
• Image by Design by Clive Chajet & Tom Shachtman 
• Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg

1996-1997

• The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players by Pat Riley 
• The Road Ahead by Bill Gates 
• The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America by Phillip K. Howard

1995-1996

• Beyond Race and Gender: Unleashing the Power of Your Total Work Force by Managing Diversity by R. Roosevelt Thomas 
• Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor Frankl 
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge

1994-1995

• Compassionate Capitalism: People Helping People Help Themselves by Rich DeVos 
• Beating the Street by Peter Lynch 
• The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection by Russell D. Roberts

1993-1994

• Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future — Today by George Land and Beth Jarman 
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox 
• Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey

1992-1993

• 2020 Visions: Long View of a Changing World by Richard Carlson and Bruce Goldman 
• Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment by Stephan Schmidheiny 
• Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise by George Gilder

1991-1992

• Essentials of Business Ethics by Peter Madsen and Jay M. Shafritz, Eds. 
• The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele 
• The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America — The Stories of Ford, Xerox, and GM by Andrea Gabor

1990-1991

• The New Realities by Peter F. Drucker 
• Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition by Harvey Mackay 
• Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus