Recommended Reading

Argyris, Chris. Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Harvard Business Review Classics) . Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1991: 99-109.

Backer, Bill. The Care and Feeding of Ideas . New York: Time Books, 1993.

Barker, Joel Arthur. Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future . New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.

Belasco, James A.Teaching the Elephant to Dance: The Manager's Guide to Empowering Change . New York: Plume Books, 1991.

Bloch, Arthur. Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong ,Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan, 1979.

Block, Peter. The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Block, Peter. Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest . San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1993.

Bridges, William. Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition . Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1993.

Burrows, Peter. Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard . Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Buckingham, Marcus & Coffman, Curt. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Buckingham, Marcus & Clifton, Donald O. Now, Discover Your Strengths . New York: The Free Press, 2001.

Carr, Nicholas. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google “Movies to Manage By”. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1999.

Collins, James. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't . New York: Harper Collins Books, 2001.

Conner, Daryl R. Managing At the Speed of Change . New York: Villard Books, 1992.

Davidow, William H. & Michael S. Malone. The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century . New York: Harper Business, 1992.

DePree, Max. Leadership Is an Art . New York: Dell Books, 1989.

Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success . New York: Random House, 2006.

Freiberg, Kevin and Jackie. Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success. New York: Broadway Books, 1996.

Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.

Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2000.

Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2005.

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers, The Story of Success. New York: Little Brown & Company, 2008

Gladwell, Malcolm. What the Dog Saw. New York: Little Brown & Company, 2009

Goleman, Daniel. What Makes a Leader? Harvard Business Review, November-December 1988, 93-102.

Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence . New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

Greenspan, Alan. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World ”. New York: The Penguin Press, 2007.

Hamel, Gary. The Future of Management . Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . New York: Random House, 2007.

Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership Without Easy Answers . Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

Heifetz, Ronald A. and Martin Linsky. Leadership on the Line . Cambridge: The Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Howard, Philip K. The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America . New York: Random House, 1994.

Jacobs, Charles S. Management Rewired. New York: Penguin Group, 2009.

Jarvis, Jeff. What Would Google Do? . New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009.

Kelley, Tom with Jonathan Littman.The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization . New York: Currency Doubleday Books, 2005.

Kelley, Tom with Jonathan Littman. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm . New York: Currency Doubleday Books, 2001.

Kriegel, Robert J. and Louis Patler. If it Ain't Broke...Break It. New York: Warner Books, 1991.

Lehrer, Jonah. How We Decide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

McCall, Morgan W. Jr., Michael M. Lombardo, and Ann M. MorrisonLessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job New York: Harper Collins Books, 2005.

Morgenstern, Joe. “The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis” (An extraordinary example of professional integrity). The New Yorker, May 29, 1995, 45-53.

Naisbitt, John. Mind Set!: Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See--and Create--the Future . New York: Harper Collins, 2006.

Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1960. (Expanded and reprinted by the Free Press of New York in 1991).

O’Toole, James. Leading Change . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Patterson, Kerry, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High . New York: McGraw Hill/Contemporary Books, 2002.

Peters, Tom.The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Robert I. Sutton.The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Roberts, Kevin (CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi). Sisomo: The Future on Screen New York: Power House Books, 2005.

Roberts Kevin (CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi). Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands. New York: Power House Books, 2005.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter Series . (Read them all. They are filled with management and leadership principles, including many do’s and do not’s). New York: Scholastic Press.

Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View . New York: Currency Doubleday, 1991.

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization . New York: Currency Doubleday, 1990.

Tulgan, Bruce. Managing Generation X . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Useem, Michael. The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All . New York: Three River Press, 1998.

Vaill, Peter B. Managing as a Performing Art . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science (Learning About Organization From an Orderly Universe) . San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1992.

Will, George F. Men at Work (The essence of being a professional as seen through baseball) . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990.

Zemke, Ron, Claire Raines, and Bob Filipczak. Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace ”. New York: AMACOM, 2000