The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. Stephen R. Covey. 1989. 358 pages.
144 Ways to Walk the Talk. Eric Harvey & Al Lucia. 45 pages.
A must have for anyone striving to provide ethical, values-driven leadership. This quick-reference handbook is packed with 144 proven techniques and practical strategies for turning workplace values into daily practice. Enhance quality and customer service, build collaboration and teamwork, encourage productive, integrity-based performance, and much more!
212o – the Extra Degree. Sam Parker & Mac Anderson, 2006. 109 pages.
212º the extra degree(tm) is an inspiring book that focuses on the essential fundamental of effort-- the primary fundamental that feeds all others. Its purpose is to inspire the extra level of effort that produces exponential results. Let 212 become a part of everyone's vocabulary-- a way to say "go get 'em" and a way to say "great work" -- a tagline as powerful as some of the world's most successful brands but one you can implement with your most valuable asset -- your people.
Blink - The Power of Thinking without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell. 2005. 277 pages.
In his #1 bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. In BLINK, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, examining case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the New Coke, Gladwell shows how the difference between good decision making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but rather with the few particular details on which we focus. BLINK displays all of the brilliance that has made Malcolm Gladwell's journalism so popular and his books such perennial bestsellers as it reveals how all of us can become better decision makers--in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life.
Catch - A Fishmonger’s Guide to Greatness. Cyndi Crother & Crew of World Famous Pike Place Fish. 2004. 147 pages.
With the publication of the mega-seller Fish!, the Pike Place Fish Market became famous both for its fascinating work culture and as a striking model for personal and business success. Catch! continues where Fish! left off, taking readers behind the scenes at the market for more life lessons. Written by the fishmongers themselves, the book offers some profound insights into creating powerful life experiences, with examples of how those insights look in action, in the fishmongers' lives. Catch! covers a wide range of concerns - the difference between "being" and "doing," dovetailing the crew's and management's financial and humanitarian goals, sharing the power of language and personal thoughts and opinions, coaching and acknowledgment, and facing - and overcoming - breakdowns. The principles and stories from mongers like Jeremy, who overcame a brain tumor, show readers how to go from the ordinary to the extraordinary in all areas of their lives.
Empowerment for High-Performing Organizations. Bill Guillory & Linda Galindo. 1995. 239 pages.
How do you take words like Empowerment and High Performance from clich to clarity? With real world examples from Fortune 500 corporations, EMPOWERMENT For High-Performing Organizations illustrates how empowerment principles are key to an organization's success. Dr. Guillory solves the mystery behind empowerment, and reveals how to integrate it into your career and company.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross & Bryan Smith. 1994. 593 pages.
Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.
The Fifth Discipline - The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. Peter M. Senge. 1990. 423 pages.
An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world."
First Things First. Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill. 2003. 373 pages.
I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?
Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why so often our first things aren't first. Rather than offering you another clock, First Things First provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.
Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. Jim Collins. 2001. 300 pages.
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
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The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice…
“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
The Innovator’s Dilemma. Clayton M. Christensen. 2000. 286 pages.
In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.
Focusing on "disruptive technology" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss "the next great wave." Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.
Find out:
Sharp, cogent, and provocative, The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the most talked-about books of our time -- and one no savvy manager or entrepreneur should be without.
Lasting Leadership: What you can learn from the top 25 Business People of our times. Pndya, Shell, Warner and Junnarkar. 2007. 256 pages.
Paths to greatness: Actionable lessons from today's most remarkable business leaders
Incisive profiles from Knowledge@Wharton and Nightly Business Report
Andy Grove, Mary Kay Ash, Lou Gerstner, Richard Branson, Herb Kelleher, Charles Schwab... and 19 more
In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style... achieve breakthrough results... and accelerate your career progress.
The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School's online journal of research and business analysis. Together, they offer powerful new insights into familiar faces--and reveal the passion and brilliance that allowed less-well-known leaders to achieve the extraordinary.
From corporate culture to brand management, risk-taking to pricing, this book's insights won't just help you: they'll inspire you…
In Search of Excellence - Lessons from America’s Best-run Companies. Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr. 1982. 360 pages.
The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.
Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.
I Wish You Would Just…Honest Thoughts from Managers/Employees on What Employees/Managers Can Do to Help Them Be More Successful. Todd McDonald & Kyndra Wilson. 2003. 54 pages.
The latest book from The Walk The Talk Company. The book that's actually two books in one! I Wish You Would Just... works toward breaking down typical manager-employee relationship barriers and promotes new levels of understanding, empathy, and cooperation. Based on research conducted with thousands of managers and employees starting in 1997 and continuing today, employees were asked to finish the statement, "I wish my manager would just..." and managers were asked to finish the statement, "I wish my employees would just..." Some answers may surprise you; others will seem quite simple.
The Manager’s Coaching Handbook - A Practical Guide to Improving Employee Performance. David Cottrell & Mark Layton. 39 pages.
"Will someone out there please develop a simple guide to improving employee performance for busy managers like us?"
Your colleagues spoke, we listened ... and here it is!
The Manager's Coaching Handbook provides managers, supervisors, and team leaders with simple, easy-to-follow guidelines for positively affecting employee performance. Within these pages you’ll find practical strategies for dealing with superior performers, those with performance problems, and everyone in between.
Looking for a bunch of long-winded theory? You won’t find it here! We "cut right to the chase" and give you proven tools you can use immediately – tools to make your job (and your life) easier
Managing Change and Transition. Harvard Business Essentials. 2003. 135 pages.
Harvard Business Essentials
… Concise and straightforward, these books provide highly practical advice for readers at all levels of experience. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking to stay on top, these solution-oriented books give you the reliable tips and tools you need to improve your performance and get the job done. Harvard Business Essentials titles will quickly become your constant companions and the trusted guides you'll turn to throughout your business career.
Managing Change and Transition
Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment, let alone one as turbulent as managers face today. This timely guide offers authoritative advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing. With tools for managing stress levels and advice on gathering and sharing information during transition, this book is an indispensable guide for managers at any level of the organization.
Mission Possible - Becoming a World-class Organization While There’s Still Time. Ken Blanchard & Terry Waghorn. 1997. 227 pages.
Winning Business Strategies for the 21st Century Is it possible for managers to improve your present organization while at the same time innovating building for the future? It is now with the new Mission Possible. Best-Selling author Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn take the latest growth strategies and organizational change theories out of the ivory tower think-tanks and put them right into your hands. Their groundbreaking Five Point Plan shows you exactly how to get maximum results from your employees each and every day... achieve short-term organizational objectives... effectively plan for the future without sacrificing current goals... identify and motivate doers and planners... organize teams with winning attitudes... and more. It's your blueprint for taking an active role in building your oraganization into a world class operation and ensuring continued success through the 21st century.
Reinventing Government - How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector. Davis Osbourne & Ted Gaebler. 1993. 405 pages.
A revolution is stirring in America. People are angry at governments that spend more but deliver less, frustrated with bureaucracies that give them no control, and tired of politicians who raise taxes and cut services but fail to solve the problems we face. Reinventing Government is both a call to arms in the revolt against bureaucratic malaise and a guide to those who want to build something better. It shows that there is a third way: that the options are not simply liberal or conservative, but that our systems of governance can be fundamentally reframed; that a caring government can still function as efficiently and productively as the best-run businesses… They describe a fundamental reinvention of government already underway… Reinventing Government is not a partisan book. It focuses not on what government should do, but on how government should work. As such, it has been embraced by both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.
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Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers - Developing Change-ready People and Organizations. Robert Kriegal & David Brandt. 1996. 320 pages.
Shows business managers how to eliminate outdated business beliefs and routines that drain time and money, redesign the rules of their corporation, and instill a capacity for change in their employees and teams.
The Southwest Airlines Way - Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance. Jody Hoffer Gittell. 2003. 319 pages.
Management lessons from the world's most profitable airline
"If you want to understand how one organization can change the competitive rules of the game for an entire industry, read this book."--James L. Heskett, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School and Coauthor of The Value-Profit Chain
Fortune magazine calls Southwest Airlines "the most successful airline in history." With a market value greater than the rest of the U.S. airline industry combined, Southwest Airlines is an amazing company with amazing management practices. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with frontline Southwest employees, managers, and senior executivesThe Southwest Airlines Way explains how Southwest's relationship-based performance principles can be adopted by managers in any industry, with dramatic results.
Full of frontline tales of Southwest's innovative management style, this compelling book explains how Southwest's relentless focus on high-performance relationships and its people-management practices have been the key to its unparalleled success in the airline industry. It reveals how any organization willing to invest the time and effort can learn from Southwest's management style by creating shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect among management, employees, and suppliers. This is the secret of how Southwest consistently outperforms its competitors in the high-pressure, timesensitive airline industry.
Ten Steps to a Learning Organization. Peter Kline & Bernard Saunders. 1993. 239 pages.
Thinking for a Change - 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work. John C. Maxwell. 2003. 257 pages.
Good thinking. It's the one thing all successful people have in common. People who achieve their dreams understand the critical relationship between their level of thinking and their level of progress-and they know that when thinking is limited, so is potential. Now, John C. Maxwell explores this idea and identifies the specific skills people need to make their potential for success explode into results. From focused and creative thinking to thinking of the big picture or the bottom line, he provides examples of effective thinking for every situation. This book doesn't tell readers what to think, it teaches them how to think. After all, success is as simple as changing your mind.
Thriving on Chaos - Handbook for a Management Revolution. Tom Peters. 1988. 708 pages.
The national bestseller that offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down. A New York Times bestseller for eleven months.
Walk Awhile in My Shoes - Gut Level, Real World Messages from Managers/Employees to Employees/Managers. Eric Harvey & Steve Ventura
The revolutionary handbook that’s actually two books in one! Break down "we vs. they" beliefs and behaviors while encouraging new levels of understanding, empathy, and cooperation. Use this popular one-of-a-kind book to help everyone as they focus on achieving the organizations mission in a values-based way.
What Do They Say When You Leave the Room? - How to Increase Your Personal Effectiveness for Success at Work, at Home and in Your Life. Brigid McGrath Massie. 208 pages.
You'll learn...*The 3 essential elements of effective leadership; 7 easy steps to developing strategic professional relationships; 15 time management strategies that work - and are easy to implement; To market yourself more effectively; To recognize and evaluate the competition; The do's and don'ts of giving and receiving criticism; A simple formula for giving successful feedback; To recognize the symptoms of burn out - and rust out; To turn stress from a liability into an asset; And much, much more!