The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World's Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees

Doug Lipp · 222 pages

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Gary Hamel · 304 pages

"Critical insight from the man Fortune called "the world's leading expert on business strategy"About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. Never before have businesses faced a more fractured, contentious and dynamic environment. If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership

All In

Mike Michalowicz · 289 pages

The bestselling author of Profit First shows you how to build unstoppable teams where everyone wins. ALL IN is the pinnacle book in Mike Michalowicz's Entrepreneurship Simplified series, setting the standard for building high-performing teams in today’s challenging work environment. Whether dealing with remote work, flex schedules, or generational divides, ALL IN provides a proven framework for re

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling · 352 pages

Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

Lyssa Adkins · 333 pages

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

William Bridges · 140 pages

The business world is transforming. Stories of layoffs, bankruptcy, mergers, and restructuring appear in the news every day. When these changes hit the workplace, the actual situational shifts are often not as difficult for employees and managers to work through as the psychological components that accompany them. Indeed, organizational transitions affect people; it is always people who have to em

The Real-Life MBA: Your No-Bs Guide to Competing, Team-Building, and Getting Ahead in Business Today

Jack Welch, Suzy Welch · 272 pages

Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less

Robert I. Sutton, Hayagreeva Rao · 357 pages

"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

William N. Thorndike Jr. · 251 pages

What makes a successful CEO? Most people call to mind a familiar definition: "a seasoned manager with deep industry expertise." Others might point to the qualities of today's so-called celebrity CEOs--charisma, virtuoso communication skills, and a confident management style. But what really matters when you run an organization? What is the hallmark of exceptional CEO performance? Quite simply, it

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

Bo Burlingham · 268 pages

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do . . . creating a great place to work . . . providing great customer service . . . making great contributions to their

Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins · 128 pages

In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful persona

Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

Tom Peters · 568 pages

Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment.

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 Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company

Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham · 375 pages

"This revised and updated edition ... lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn't dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, w

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

Warren Buffett · 768 pages

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

Bob Lutz · 241 pages

Our Iceberg Is Melting

John P. Kotter, Holger Rathgeber · 147 pages

Our Iceberg is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations. The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastat

The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Gene Kim · 443 pages

Managing Oneself

Peter F. Drucker · 128 pages

Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from "Harvard Business Review," Drucker reveals the keys to becoming your own chief executive officer as well as a b

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lawrence Hawkins, Susan Fowler · 142 pages

Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader. Now, Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager clearly and thoroughly reveals how power, freedom, and autonomy come from having the right mind-set and the skills needed to take personal responsibility for success.In this captivating business parable, number one New

The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization

Peter M. Senge · 464 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 Arch

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Lee G. Bolman, Terence E. Deal · 512 pages

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame: how to o

Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

Edgar H. Schein · 464 pages

In this third edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations and change. Organizational pioneer Schein updates his influential understanding of culture--what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed. Focusing on today's bu