Recommended Readings
The following list of suggested readings is our current answer to the question, “Can you recommend any good books on business and personal growth topics?” While we update the list each quarter, some of these titles have been around for quite a few years. Among the older titles, we think you'll find some of the “best of the best” to go with the more recent titles. Happy Reading!
General Business & Management Topics
THE ABILENE PARODOX AND OTHER MEDITATIONS ON MANAGEMENT - Jerry B. Harvey. Lexington Books/University Associates, 1988
THE BALANCED SCORECARD: Translating Strategy Into Action - Robert Kaplan & David Norton. Harvard Business School, 1996.
BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne. Harvard Business School, 2005.
THE CHALLENGE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: How Companies Experience It and Leaders Guide It – Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein, and Todd D. Jick. Free Press, 1992.
COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE – G. Hamel & C.K. Prahalad. Harvard Bus. School Press, 1995
CORPORATE LIFECYCLES - Ichak Adizes. Prentice Hall, 1988.
CRAFTING COMPETITIVENESS - Albert A. Vicere & Robert M. Fulmer. Capstone, 1996.
CUSTOMERS.COM - Patricia Seybold. Times Business, 1999.
CUSTOMERS FOR LIFE – Carl Sewell & Paul B. Brown. Pocket Books, 1990
DANGER IN THE COMFORT ZONE - Judith M. Bardwick. AMACOM, 1991
DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU - John C. Maxwell. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993.
DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS How To Discuss What Matters Most – Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen. Viking Penguin Group, 1999.
THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization - Peter M. Senge. Doubleday/Currency, 1990
THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK: Strategies & Tools for Building a Learning Organization - Kleiner, Senge, Roberts, Ross, Smith. Doubleday/Currency, 1994
FINDING & KEEPING GREAT EMPLOYEES – Jim Harris & Joan Brannick. AMACOM, 1999.
FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently – Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
GETTING IT DONE: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge -Roger Fisher & Alan Sharp. Harper, 1998.
THE GOAL: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Revised Edition) - Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox. North River Press, 1986
THE GREAT GAME OF BUSINESS - Jack Stack. Doubleday/Currency, 1992
GROW TO BE GREAT: Breaking the Downsizing Cycle – Dwight Gertz & Joao Baptista. Free Press, 1995.
THE HP WAY: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company - David Packard. HarperBusiness, 1995
THE INDIVIDUALIZED CORPORATION: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management – Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett. Harper Business, 1997.
JACK WELCH AND THE GE WAY: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO – Robert Slater. McGraw-Hill, 1999.
THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level – Noel M. Tichy. Harper Business, 1997.
LEADERSHIP IS AN ART - Max DePree. Doubleday, 1989
LEADERSHIP JAZZ - Max DePree. Doubleday, 1992.
LEADING CHANGE - John P. Kotter. Harvard Business School Press, 1996
LEARNING TO LEAD: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader - Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith. Addison-Wesley, 1994
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES FOR THE 21 st CENTURY – Peter Drucker. Harper Business, 1999.
MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: Leading Human Resources (Eighth Edition).– Paul Hersey, Kenneth Blanchard, Dewey Johnson. Prentice-Hall, 2001
A MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE MILLENNIUM - Ken Matejka & Richard J. Dunsing. AMACOM, 1995
MANAGING AT THE SPEED OF CHANGE: How Resilient Managers Succeed & Prosper Where Others Fail - Daryl R. Conner. Villiard Books, 1992
MANAGING IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE - Peter Drucker. Dutton, 1995
MASLOW ON MANAGEMENT – Abraham Maslow. Wiley, 1998.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS: A Mavericks Guide to Business, Leadership, and Life – Sidney Harman. Currency, 2003.
PEAK PERFORMANCE: Aligning the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees – Jon R. Katzenbach. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
PRINCIPLE-CENTERED LEADERSHIP - Stephen R. Covey. Summit Books, 1991
SACRED COWS MAKE THE BEST BURGERS – Robert Kriegel & David Brandt. Warner Books, 1996.
STEWARDSHIP: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest - Peter Block. Berrett-Koehler, 1993
STOP MANAGING, START COACHING: How Performance Coaching Can Enhance Commitment and Improve Productivity - Jerry W. Gilley & Nathaniel W. Boughton. Irwin, 1996
TAKING CHARGE: Making the Right Choices - Perry M. Smith. Avery Publishing, 1988
THE TIPPING POINT: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Company, 2000.
THE UNNATURAL ACT OF MANAGEMENT - Everett T. Suters. Harper Business, 1992
WE ARE ALL SELF-EMPLOYED - Cliff Hakim. Berrett-Kohler, 1994
THE WEB OF INCLUSION: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations - Sally Helgesen. Doubleday/Currency, 1995
Personal Growth & Self Development Topics
AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN - Anthony Robbins. Summit Books, 1991
THE BRAIN BOOK – Peter Russell. E. P. Dutton, 1979
CHANGING FOR GOOD: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward – James Prochaska, John Norcross, & Carlo Diclemente. William Morrow, 1994
CHOICES: Manage Your Choices and You Will Manage Your Life! – Shad Helmstetter. Pocket Books, 1989.
DEVELOPMENT FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development - David B. Peterson & Mary Dee Hicks. Personnel Decisions International, 1995
DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU – John Maxwell. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993
DO WHAT YOU LOVE, THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW: Discovering Your Right Livelihood – Marsha Sinetar. Dell, 1989.
FIRST THINGS FIRST - Stephen Covey, Roger Merrill, Rebecca Merrill. Simon & Schuster, 1994
GETTING THINGS DONE: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen. Viking, 2001
LIFE 101 - John-Roger and Peter McWilliams. Prelude Press, 1990
NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS – Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton. Free Press, 2001.
THE ORGANIZED EXECUTIVE - Stephanie Winston. Warner Books, 1994
PEAK PERFORMERS: The New Heroes of American Business – Charles Garfield. Avon, 1986.
READY FOR ANYTHING: 52 Productivity Principles for Work & Life – David Allen. Viking, 2003.
SECOND TO NONE: How Our Smartest Companies Put People First – Charles Garfield. Irwin, 1992.
THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE: - Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1989
TYPE TALK - Otto Kroeger & Janet M. Thuesen. Delecorte, 1988
TYPE TALK AT WORK - Otto Kroeger & Janet M. Thuesen. Delecorte, 1992
UNLIMITED POWER - Anthony Robbins. Faucett, 1987
USE BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BRAIN - Tony Buzan. Dutton, 1977
USING YOUR BRAIN FOR A CHANGE - Richard Bandler. Real People Press, 1989
WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU TALK TO YOURSELF - Shad Helmstetter. Grindle Press, 1986
THE WHOLE BRAIN BUSINESS BOOK: Unlocking the Power of Whole Brain Thinking in Organizations and Individuals – Ned Herrmann. Mc-Graw Hill, 1996
WHY NOT YOU? – Mary Blakely. Azuray Learning, 2000