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Recommended Reading
 
Vision and Purpose:
  • Built to Last, Collins and Porras
  • Future Search, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
  • Good to Great, Jim Collins
  • It’s Your Ship, Michael Brashoff
  • The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, D. Whitney, D. Cooperrider, A. Trosten-Bloom
  • Spirit at Work, Jay  Congur
Leadership:
  • Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Robert Quinn
  • Jack Welch and the GE Way, Robert Slater
  • Leaders, Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
  • The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
  • Leadership Jazz, Max DePree
  • Leadership and the New Science, Margaret Wheatley
  • Managing as a Performing Art, Peter Vaill
  • On Leadership, John W. Gardner
  • Power Up, David Bradford and Allen Cohen
  • Results Based Leadership, David Ulrich, Jack Zenger and Norm Smallwood
  • Stewardship, Peter Block
  • Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
 
Workforce Dynamics:
  • Corporate Cultures: the rites and rituals of Corporate Life, Deal and Kennedy
  • Corporate Culture and Performance, John Kotter and James Heskett
  • GlobalWork, Mary O’Hara-Devereaux and Robert Johansen
  • Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan
  • Influence Without Authority, David Bradford and Allen Cohen
  • The Living Organization, John Nirenberg
  • Organization Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein
  • The Soul in the Computer, Barbara Waugh
  • Team Fitness, Meg Hartzler and Jane Henry
  • TeamWork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong, Carl Larson and Frank LaFasto
  • Tools for Virtual Teams, Jane Henry and Meg Hartzler
  • Understanding Organizations, Charles Handy
  • Virtual Teams, Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps
  • Wisdom of Teams, Jon Katazenback and Douglas Smith
  • Working Virtually, Trina Hoefling
  • Why the Bottom Line Isn’t, Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood
 
Strategy:
  • Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton
  • Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore
  • The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
  • The Dynamic Enterprise, Lisa Friedman and Herman Gyr
  • Every Business is a Growth Business, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
  • Market Driven Strategy, George Day
  • The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Henry Mintzberg
  • The Strategy Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton
  • Strategic Planning: a practical guide, Peter Rea and Harold Kerzner
Systems and Structures:
  • Growing Pains, Eric Flamholtz
  • Human Resource Champions, Dave Ulrich
  • Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan
  • The Inventive Organization, Jill Janov
  • Productive Workplaces, Marvin Weisbord
  • Work Redesign, Hackman and Oldham
Competencies and Disciplines:
  • Accelerating Change and Transitions
    • After the Merger, Price Pritchett
    • Beyond the Wall of Resistance, Rick Maurer
    • The Change Leader’s Roadmap, Linda Anderson and Dean Anderson
    • Discontinuous Change, David Nadler, et. al.
    • Harvard Business Review on Change, Harvard Business School Press
    • Joining Forces, Mitchell Marks and Phillip Mirvis
    • Leading Change, John Kotter
    • Managing at the Speed of Change, Daryl Conner
    • Transitions, William Bridges
  • Creating Dynamic Communication Environment
    • Communicating Change, Larkin and Larkin
    • Communicating for Change, Roger D’Aprix
    • Credibility, Jim Kouzes
    • Dialogue, William Issacs
    • Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan
    • The First 90 Days, Michael Watkins
    • The Leader’s Voice, Boyd Clarke and Ron Crossland
    • Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce
    • Sensemaking in Organizations, Karl Weick
  • Facilitative Interaction
    • Beyond Machiavelli: Tools For Coping With Conflict, Roger Fisher, et.al.
    • Getting to Yes, Robert Fisher and William Ury
    • How to Make Meetings Work, Michael Doyle and David Straus
    • Masterful Facilitation, A. Glenn Kiser
    • On Dialogue, David Bohm
    • Paradoxes of Group Life, Kenwyn Smith and David Berg
    • The Skilled Facilitator, Roger Schwarz
    • Time to Think, Nancy Kline
  • Innovation and Learning
    • The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelly
    • Breakthrough Thinking, Gerald Nadler and Shozo Hibino
    • The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge
    • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge
    • The Knowledge-Creating Company, Nonaka and Takeuchi
    • Learning Organizations, edited by Chawla and Renesch
    • The Minding Organization, Moshe Rubinstein and Iris Firstenberg
    • The Mind Map Book, Tony Buzan
    • On Organizational Learning, Chris Arygris
    • The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
    • The Reflective Practitioner, Donald Schon
    • Wellsprings of Knowledge, Dorothry Leonard-Barton
  • Continuous Improvement
    • 20 Keys to Workplace Improvement, Iwao Kobayashi
    • Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones
    • The Reengineering Revolution, Michael Hammer
    • The Six Sigma Revolution, George Eckes
    • The Six Sigma Way, Peter Pande, et. al
    • The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook, Peter Pande, et. al.
  • Listening to the Customer
    • Attracting Perfect Customers, Stacey Hall and Jan Brogniez
    • Voices into Choices: Acting on the Voice of the Customer, Gary Burchill, Christina Hepner Brodie
    • The Trusted Advisor, David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford
    • The CRM Handbook: A Business Guide to Customer Relationship Management, Jill Dyché
    • Acquiring, Processing, and Deploying Voice of the Customer, M. Larry Shillito, M Larry Shillito
    • Developing New Services: Incorporating the Voice of the Customer into Strategic Service Development, Caroline M. Fisher, James T. Schutta
  • Supply Chain Relationship
    • Essentials of Supply Chain Management, Michael H. Hugos
    • Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl
    • Strategic Supply Chain Management, Shoshanah Cohen, Joseph Roussel
    • Supply Chain Redesign: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated Value Systems, Robert B. Handfield, Jr., Ernest L. Nichols
    • Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service, Second Edition, Martin Christopher
    • Harvard Business Review on Managing the Value Chain (A Harvard Business Review Paperback), Carliss Baldwin, Kim B. Clark, Joan Magretta, Jeffrey H. Dyer, Marshall Fisher, Donald V. Fites
  • Systems Thinking
    • The Age of Paradox, Charles Handy
    • Complexity, Mitchell Waldrop
    • The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge
    • General Systems Theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy
    • Seeing Systems, Barry Oshry
    • A Simpler Way, Margaret Wheatley
    • Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking, Draper Karuffman, Jr.
    • The Turning Point, Fritjof Capra

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