Books

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• Ackoff’s Best: His Classic Writings on Management

• Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership, William R Torbert

• Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

• Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life: A Practical Introduction, Marianne Dainton, Elaine D. Zelley

• Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, H.R. Maturana, F.J. Varela

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• Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
• Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital, John W. Boudreau, Peter M. Ramstad
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrevelevant, W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne

• The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure,Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, Steve Kerr

• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge

• The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers, Keith R. Mcfarland

• Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores

• Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectivenes, Edward E. Lawler lll & Christopher G. Worley

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras

• Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes, Paul Harmon

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• Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches, Marshall Goldsmith (Ed), Laurence S. Lyons
• Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business, James M. Hunt, Joseph R. Weintraub
• Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
• Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• The Connected leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People, Performance and Profit, Emmanuel Gobillot
• Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Philip Ball

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• Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs

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• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman

• Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life, Paul Ekman

• The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want, David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, Michael Irwin Meltzer

• Ethics - Strengthening Ethical Wisdom, Jack A. Gilbert

• The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life, Eric Booth

• The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development, Robert Kegan
• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman
• Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

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• Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, Margaret J Wheatley

• Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• From Being to Doing. The Origins of the Biology of Cognition. Humberto R. Maturana, Bernhard, and Wolfram Karl Koeck
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

• The Future of Management, Gary Hamel, Bill Breen

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• The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation, A.G. Lafley, Ram Charan

• The GE Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution, Robert Slater

• The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking Organizational Proble, Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, Ron Ashkenas

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen

• Good to Great, Jim Collins

• The Great Game of Business, Jack Stock

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• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton

• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky

• Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy - And Others Don't, Lynda Gratton

• How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest, Peter Singer

• How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate, Andrew Hargadon

• How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation, Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

• How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker

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• In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Robert Kegan

• I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy, John Allen Paulos

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• Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't, Ram Charan

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• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker

• Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Margaret J. Wheatley

• Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World, Sharon Daloz Parks

• Levers Of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems For Greater Performance And Commitment, Robert Simons

• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

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• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath & Dan Heath

• Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

• Masterful Coaching, Robert Hargrove

• The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook: Grow Your Business, Multiply Your Profits, Win the Talent War! Robert Hargrove

• Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, William C. Taylor & Polly LaBarre

• Mayday!: Asking for Help in Times of Need, M Nora Klaver

• Meaning, Inc.: The Blueprint for Business Success in the 21st Century, Gurnek Bains

• Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization, Lowell L. L Bryan, Claudia L. I. Joyce

• Moral Literacy: Or How to Do the Right Thing, Colin McGinn

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• On Dialogue, David Bohm

• On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, Robert Grudin

• On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events, Russell Ackoff and Fred Emery

• Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation Through Complexity, Howard J. Sherman

• Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape, Henry Chesbrough

• The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, Roger L. Martin

• Ourselves: Why We Are Who We Are, Frank Smith

• Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Ken Robinson

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• Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, Chip Conley

• Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee

• Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies, Nikos Mourkogiannis

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• Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, David Allen

• Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges, Dean Williams

• Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know, David Apgar

• Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, Kevin Carroll

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• The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies: ...And How to Break Them, Jagdish N. Sheth

• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Daniel Goleman

• A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business, Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham

• Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition), Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

• The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it), Michael E. Raynor

• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker

• Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert

• Success Built to Last, Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson - Also, Take a minute and watch the video or co-author Mark Thompson as he interviews figures featured in Success Built to Last.

• Systemantics: The Underground Text of Systems Lore, John Gall

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• Taking Control of Your Time

• Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised and Updated Edition), Paul Ekman

• Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers, Thomas H. Davenport

• Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You A Stronger, More Effective Leader, John K. Clemens and Scott Dalrymple

• The Tree of Knowledge, Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco Varela

• To Think, Frank Smith

• Trust - The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything, Stephen M.R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill

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• Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expressions, Paul Ekman

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• What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, John Brockman

• What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

• What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works, Ram Charan

• What to Say When You Talk to Yourself, Shad Helmstetter

• Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

• The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki

• The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy, Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, Richard W. Beatty

• Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

• World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman

• Writings on an Ethical Life, Peter Singer

• Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide, Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky

• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics, Paul Ormerod

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• You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language to Combat Stress, Anger, and Depression, Matthew Budd, M.D. and Larry Rothstein

• Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions, Read Montague