Adventures of an IT Leader

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

Powerful Conversations: How High Impact Leaders Communicate

Phil Harkins · 224 pages

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

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew · 118 pages

Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent

Sydney Finkelstein · 272 pages

"A GOOD BOSS HITS HIS GOALS AND LEADS HIS TEAM. A SUPERBOSS BLOWS AWAY HER GOALS BY BUILDING AN ARMY OF NEW LEADERS. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE? What do football coach Bill Walsh, restaurateur Alice Waters, television executive Lorne Michaels, technology CEO Larry Ellison, and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren have in common? On the surface, not much, other than consistent success in their fields. But b

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

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

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

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

James C. Collins, Morten T. Hansen · 320 pages

The new question. Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for buildin

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

Lawrence M. Miller · 240 pages

Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose - the Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership

John Whitmore · 52 pages

Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen · 112 pages

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages

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

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon · 350 pages

In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its core values and restore not only its financial health, but also its soul. In Onward, he shares the

Jack: Straight from the Gut

Jack Welch, John A. Byrne, Mike Barnicle · 487 pages

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier · 227 pages

Want to say less, work less, and have more impact? Stanier gives you the seven core questions that will help you provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. By unlocking their potential, you'll be able to unlock your own.

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

Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst

Robert I. Sutton

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith · 256 pages

The Leadership Challenge

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner · 405 pages

When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the know

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

Warren Buffett · 768 pages