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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
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Include books by the same authorThe Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffrey K. Liker · 340 pages
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter · 208 pages
From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. The author's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process organizations have u
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · 256 pages
In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging th
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Patrick Lencioni · 240 pages
"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this boo
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers
Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo · 266 pages
"This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. Gamestorming is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity w
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 111 pages
Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan · 283 pages
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management jobLarry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some compani
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages
Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
James C. Collins · 222 pages
Discusses signs pointing toward the decline of a business, how far the decline can proceed before failure becomes inevitable, and crucial steps companies can take to reverse course.
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord · 228 pages
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Gene Kim · 443 pages
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 195 pages
Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how computer languages and tools will evolve, and philosophical speculation. Unlike most other books about computing, Brooks' work has been remarkably enduring, remaining in print for at least four decades. The book is most famous for its statement of Brooks' Law: "addin
Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Chris Sims, Hillary Louise Johnson · 54 pages
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 256 pages
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-th
Principles
Ray Dalio · 592 pages
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages
The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance [Updated Revised]
Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton · 235 pages
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 355 pages
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras in this groundbreaking book