(Hewlett-Packard), Deone Zell (1997).
Changing by Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard.
(Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 180 p.). Vice Chancellor's Office (UCLA).
Hewlett-Packard Company--Management; Electronic industries--United
States--Management--Case studies; Organizational change--United
States--Case studies.
(Honeywell), Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan with Charles Burck
(2004).
Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters To Get Things
Right. (New York, NY: Crown, 264 p.). Former CEO, Honeywell;
Former CEO, Allied Signal. Organizational change; Success in
business; Realism.
(ICI), John Harvey-Jones (1993).
Managing to Survive.
(London, UK: Heinemann, 184 p.). Industrial management;
Organizational change--Management.
(Koch Industries), Charles G. Koch (2007).
The Science of Success: How Market Based Management Built the World's
Largest Private Company. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 208
p.). Chairman of the Board and CEO of Koch Industries, Inc.
Organizational change; Industrial management; Organizational
behavior. World's largest privately held
company - 2,000-fold growth
since 1967, 80,000 employees in 60 countries, $90 billion in revenues
in 2006; Market-Based Management for continuous transformation and
positive growth: 1) Vision, 2) Virtue and Talents, 3) Knowledge
Processes, 4) Decision Rights, 5) Incentives.
(National Health Service), Andrew Pettigrew, Ewan Ferlie, Lorna
McKee (1992).
Shaping Strategic Change: Making Change in Large
Organizations: The Case of the National Health Service.
(London, UK: Sage Publications, 326 p.). National Health Service
(Great Britain); Health services administration--Great
Britain--Case studies; Organizational change--Great Britain--Case
studies; Strategic planning--Great Britain--Case studies.
Eric Abrahamson (2004).
Change Without Pain: How Managers
Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and
Employee Burnout. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press,
218 P.). Professor of Management at Columbia Business School.
Organizational change; Organizational effectiveness.
Allan Afuah (2003).
Innovation Management: Strategies,
Implementation and Profits. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 390 p. [2nd ed.]). Organizational change; Industrial
management; Corporations--Finance; Product management; Strategic
planning.
Seth Allcorn (2005).
Organizational Dynamics and Intervention: Tools for Changing the
Workplace. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 245 p.).
Organizational change--Psychological aspects; Organizational
behavior; Leadership--Psychological aspects; Behavioral
assessment; Management--Psychological aspects; Quality of work
life. Understanding and working
effectively with the unconscious dynamics of workplace
experience.
Richard Beckhard (1997).
Agent of Change: My Life, My
Practice. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 202 p.). Former
Professor of Organization Behavior and Management (Sloan School,
MIT). Beckhard, Richard, 1918- ; Business consultants--United
States--Biography; Organizational change--United States;
Interpersonal relations--United States; Management--United States.
Lois Beckwith (2006).
The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty,
Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk. (New York,
NY: Broadway Books, 192 p.). Business--Dictionaries;
Business--Terminology; Office practice--Dictionaries.
Guide to the smoke-screen terms and
passive-aggressive phrases.
Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997).
Organizing
Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration. (Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 239 p.). Organizational effectiveness--Case
studies; Strategic alliances (Business)--Case studies; Creative
thinking--Case studies; Creative ability in business--Case
studies.
J. Stewart Black, Hal B. Gregersen (2008).
It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Pub., 162 p. [2nd ed.]).
Professor at INSEAD; Professor of Leadership at INSEAD.
Organizational change --Planning; Group decision making.
How to
redraw individuals' mental maps with new destinations and paths,
unleash power to deliver superior, sustained strategic
change.
Joseph L. Bower [et al.] (1995).
Business Policy: Managing
Strategic Processes. (Chicago, IL: Irwin, 885 p. [8th ed.]).
Corporations--United States--Case studies; Industrial
management--United States--Case studies.
Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer (2005).
Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams that Changed Their Worlds.
(New York, NY: FT Prentice Hall, 205 p.). Teams in the workplace;
Organizational effectiveness; Management--Employee participation.
Work together to break out of the
commonplace and make something remarkable happen.
Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom (2006).
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless
Organizations. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 230 p.). Founder
of wireless startup, health food advocacy group, network of CEOs
working on public benefit projects; Founder CATS Software Inc.
Decentralization in management; Organizational behavior; Success
in business. How decentralization is
changing many organizations; units capable of operating, growing, multiplying independently;
very difficult for rival to control, defeat them.
Edited with an introduction by John Seely Brown (1997).
Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation. (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 245 p.). Chief Scientist, Xerox
PARC. Organizational change; Technological
innovations--Management.
John Case (1998).
The Open-Book Experience: Lessons from
over 100 Companies Who Successfully Transformed Themselves.
(Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 237 p.). Organizational
effectiveness; Management--Employee participation; Open-book
management.
James Champy (1995).
Reengineering Management: The Mandate
for New Leadership. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 212 p.).
Industrial management--United States; Organizational
change--United States; Executives--United States; Leadership;
Reengineering (Management).
Ed. with an introduction and epilogue by James Champy and Nitin
Nohria (1996).
Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing
Business Change. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press,
278 p.). Organizational change--Management; Reengineering
(Management); Business networks; Creative ability in business.
Allen R. Cohen, David L. Bradford (1990).
Influence without
Authority. (New York, NY: Wiley, 319 p.). Organizational
effectiveness; Executive ability; Interpersonal relations.
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras. (1994).
Built to Last:
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. (New York, NY:
HarperBusiness, 322 p.). Success in business--United States;
Industrial management--United States; Entrepreneurship--United
States.
Daryl R. Conner (1993).
Managing at the Speed of Change: How
Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail. (New
York, NY: Villard Books, 282 p.). Organizational
change--Management.
--- (1998).
Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How To Create the
Nimble Organization. (New York, NY: Wiley, 352 p.).
Organizational change--Management; Corporate
reorganizations--Management; Organizational behavior.
Rob Cross, Andrew Parker (2004). The Hidden Power of Social
Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 304 p.). Assistant
Professor (University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce)
and a Research Fellow with IBM's Knowledge and Organizational
Performance Forum; Research Consultant with IBM's Knowledge and
Organizational Performance Forum. Business networks;
Employees--Social networks.
Thomas H. Davenport (1993).
Process Innovation:
Reengineering Work Through Information Technology. (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 337 p.). Information
technology; Technological innovations; Organizational change;
Production engineering; Reengineering (Management).
Jeff DeGraff & Shawn E. Quinn (2006).
Leading Innovation: How To Jump Start Your Organization's Growth
Engine. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 350 p.). Professor of
Management Education at Ross School of Business (University of
Michigan); Partner, Competing Values Company. Organizational
change; Corporate culture; Creative ability in business.
Recognizing, developing creative ideas,
launching them into products, services, processes that drive
breakthrough innovation and consistent value creation.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (1984). The Irrational Executive:
Psychoanalytic Explorations in Management. (New York, NY:
International Universities Press, 497 p.). Managerial
Psychoanalyst; Professor of Human Resources (Insead).
Executives--Psychology; Organizational behavior; Psychology,
Industrial; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic theory; Organization
and administration; Leadership.
--- (1991).
Organizations on the Couch: Clinical
Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change. (San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 408 p.). Managerial Psychoanalyst,
Professor of Human Resources (Insead). Organizational behavior;
Psychology, Industrial; Executives.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller (1988).
Unstable
at the Top: Inside the Troubled Organization. (New York, NY:
New American Library, 221 p.). Managerial Psychoanalyst
(Professor of Human Resources - Insead),. Organizational behavior;
Industrial organization.
--- (1990).
The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and
Revitalizing Unhealthy Companies. (New York, NY:
HarperBusiness, 241 p. (rev. 1984 ed.)). Managerial Psychoanalyst
(Professor of Human Resources - Insead),. Organizational behavior;
Psychology, Industrial; Management.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries with Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (1999).
The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, and David
Simon. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 188 p.). Branson,
Richard; Barnevik, Percy; Simon of Highbury, David Alec Gwyn
Simon, Baron, 1939- ; Virgin Group; British Petroleum Company; ABB
Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.; International business enterprises --
Management -- Case studies; Organizational change -- Case studies.
Joseph R. Folkman (2006).
The Power of Feedback 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from
Others into Personal and Professional Change. (Hoboken,
NJ: Wiley, 202 p.). President of Zenger Folkman. Communication in
organizations; Feedback (Psychology); Organizational change.
How highly effective people use feedback:
focus on positives feedback uncovers to discover professional
strengths, increase skills, turn strengths into long-term
advantages.
Robert Fritz (1996).
Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure.
(San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 274 p.).
Industrial organization; Corporate reorganizations; Organizational
effectiveness.
Terrence L. Gargiulo (2005).
The Strategic Use of Stories in Organizational Communication and
Learning. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 252 p.).
Organizational communication; Organizational learning;
Storytelling--Social aspects; Storytelling--Psychological aspects;
Executives--United States--Interviews.
Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert; with John Case and Kath
Tsakalakis (2008).
The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get Outstanding
Results. (New York, NY: Collins, 367 p.). Partner, Cohead
of Bain & Co.’s Capabilities Sourcing Practice; Partner, Bain &
Co. Organizational effectiveness; Management; Success in business.
Four principles to achieve breakthrough
results: 1) costs and prices always decline; 2) competitive
position determines options; 3) customers, profit pools don't
stand still; 4) simplicity gets results = mastering basics of
great management.
Lynda Gratton (2007).
Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with
Energy-- and Others Don’t. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 213 p.). Associate Professor of Organizational
Behaviour (London Business School); Dean of the Full-Time MBA
program. Intellectual capital--Management; Organizational
behavior--Management; Management--Employee participation.
"Hot spot" - short period in which new ideas flow freely,
cooperation and success attain levels that exceed all
expectations; techniques, strategies that can create more
productive environment in which hot spots are anticipated,
recognized, embraced.
Michael Hammer (2001).
The Agenda: What Every Company Must
Do To Dominate the Decade. (New York, NY: Crown, 269 p.).
Organizational change; Organizational effectiveness; Consumer
satisfaction; Competition.
Michael Hammer & James Champy; with a new prologue (2001).
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution.
(New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 257 p. [orig. pub. 1993]).
Organizational change; Corporate reorganizations; Reengineering
(Management).
Charles Handy (1993).
Understanding Organizations. (New
York, NY: Penguin, 445 p. [4th ed.]). Organization; Associations,
institutions, etc.; Management.
--- (1995). Gods of Management: The Changing Work of
Organizations. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 254
p.). Management; Organizational change--Management; Corporate
culture.
--- (1996).
Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of
Organizations. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 221
p.). Organizational change.
Charles Handy ; foreword by Warren Bennis (1989).
The Age of
Unreason. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Schol Press, 278 p.).
Organizational change; Organizational behavior.
Robert Hargrove (1998).
Mastering the Art of Creative
Collaboration. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 253 p.).
Organizational effectiveness; Strategic alliances (Business);
Creative thinking; Creative ability in business.
Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2007).
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck.
(New York, NY: Random House. Professor of Organizational Behavior
(Stanford Graduate School of Businessl); Consultant at Duke
Corporate Education. Social psychology; Contagion (Social
psychology); Context effects (Psychology). Describes traits that
link sticky ideas of all kinds, from urban legends to corporate
mission statements to advertisements to proverbs.
Robert Heller (1995).
The Leadership Imperative: What
Innovative Business Leaders Are Doing Today To Create the
Successful Companies of Tomorrow. (New York, NY: Dutton, 398
p.). Industrial management--United States; Organizational
change--United States--Management; Corporate
reorganizations--United States; Total quality management--United
States; Leadership.
Robert J. Herbold (2007).
Seduced by Success: How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of
Winning. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 326 p.). Former
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft
Corporation. Organizational effectiveness; Success; Organizational
behavior; Corporate culture; Organizational change. Nine Traps: 1) Neglect;; 2) Pride; 3) Boredom; 4) Complexity; 5)
Bloat; 6) Mediocrity; 7) Lethargy; 8)
Timidity; 9) Vagueness.
Anne Sigismund Huff, James Oran Huff with Pamela S. Barr
(2000).
When Firms Change Direction. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 266 p.). Organizational change; Corporate
reorganizations; Corporate culture; Crisis management.
Michael C. Jensen (1998).
Foundations of Organizational
Strategy. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 414 p.).
Organizational behavior.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1989).
When Giants Learn To Dance:
Mastering the Challenge of Strategy, Management, and Careers in
the 1990s. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 415 p.). Professor
(Harvard Business School). Organizational change; Organizational
effectiveness.
Compiled by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein, Todd D. Jick
(1992).
The Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies
Experience It and Leaders Guide It. (New York, NY: Free Press,
535 p.). Organizational change.
John Kao (1991).
The Entrepreneurial Organization. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 360 p.). Organizational change; Creative ability in
business; Entrepreneurship.
Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith (1993).
The Wisdom of
Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 291 p.). Teams in the
workplace.
Jon R. Katzenbach (1998).
Teams at the Top: Unleashing the
Potential of Both Teams and Individual Leaders. (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 238 p.). Teams in the workplace;
Leadership.
Janice A. Klein (2004).
True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get Things Done in
Organizations. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 207 p.).
Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management (MIT). Organizational
change; Organizational effectiveness; Corporate culture; Employee
motivation.
Art Kleiner (1996).
The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws,
and the Forerunners of Corporate Change. (New York, NY:
Doubleday, 414 p.). Organizational change--United States--Case
studies; Management--United States--History.
eds. Thomas A. Kochan, Michael Useem (1992).
Transforming
Organizations. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 420
p.). Organizational change -- Congresses.
John P. Kotter (1996).
Leading Change. (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 187 p.). Professor (Harvard
Business School). Organizational change; Leadership; Industrial
organization; Strategic planning.
--- (2008).
A Sense of Urgency. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press,
128 p.). Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus
(Harvard Business School). Organizational change.
First
step in 8-step process for implementing successful
transformations: create sense of urgency by getting people to
see, feel need for change; insidious nature of
complacency; how to go beyond "the
business case" for change to overcome fear, anger that can
suppress urgency; ways to ensure that actions and behaviors (not
just words) communicate need for change; how to keep fanning
flames of urgency even after transformation effort has scored some
early successes.
John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen (2002).
The Heart of Change:
Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 190 p.).
Organizational change.
George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky (1997).
The Power of
Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish
Extraordinary Things. (New York, NY: Wiley, 242 p.).
Organizational change; Strategic planning; Information
technology--Management; Competition.
Theodore Levitt (1991).
Thinking about Management. (New
York, NY: Free Press, 154 p.). Management; Organizational change.
Paul C. Light (2005).
The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations
Achieve Extraordinary Results. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill,
304 p.). Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (New York
University). Organizational change--Management; Strategic
planning; Crisis management.
Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold J. Leavitt (1999).
Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them To Ignite
Your Organization. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
299 p.). Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and
Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker
Graduate School of Management (Claremont Graduate University);
Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. Organizational effectiveness; Group decision making;
Industrial efficiency. Defined by distinctive state of mind
coupled with style of behavior that is intense, sharply focused on ultimate goal; members plunge into enterprises
that have potential to change, their own, others' lives.
Michael Maccoby (1981).
The Leader: A New Face for American
Management. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 284 p.).
Leadership; Organizational effectiveness.
Robert J. Marshak (2006).
Covert Processes at Work: Managing the Hidden Dimensions of
Organizational Change. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler,
216 p.). President of Marshak Associates, Scholar-in-Residence
(American University), Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science. Organizational change; Organizational
change--Management; Organizational behavior;
Management--Psychological aspects. How to
bring hidden processes to light, deal with their negative impact.
Anita M. McGahan (2004).
How Industries Evolve: Principles
for Achieving and Sustaining Superior Performance. (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 245 p.). Professor and Chairman
of Strategy and Policy Department (Boston University School of Management).
Organizational change; Industries Technological innovations
Economic aspects; Strategic planning; Industrial organization;
Organizational effectiveness.
Ian I. Mitroff (2005).
Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis: 7
Essential Lessons for Surviving Disaster. (New York, NY:
American Management Association, 238 p.). Professor in both the
Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for
Communications (University of Southern California). Crisis management;
Emergency management; Leadership. 7
distinct competencies to handle crises effectively.
Ian I. Mitroff and Ralph H. Kilmann (1984).
Corporate Tragedies:
Product ampering, Sabotage, and Other Catastrophes. (New York,
NY: Praeger, 1450 p.). Organizational effectiveness.
Robert E. Mittelstaedt (2004).
Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That
Can Destroy. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Pub., 309
p.). Dean and Professor of the W. P. Carvey School of Business
(Arizona State University). Organizational effectiveness; Crisis
management; Errors--Prevention. Catch
mistakes early, keep them cheap, learn from them.
Eds.
Bertrand Moingeon and Amy Edmondson (1996).
Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage.
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 229 p.). Novartis Professor
of Leadership and Management and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at
Harvard Business School; Professor Strategy and Business Policy (HEC
- Hautes Etudes Commerciales - School of management.
Organizational learning; Competition; Strategic planning.
Debra E. Myerson (2008).
Rocking the Boat: How To Effect Change Without Making Trouble.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 225 p.). Associate Professor
of Education and (by courtesy) Organizational Behavior (Stanford
University), co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy
and Civil Society. Organizational change; Organizational
behavior; Corporate culture. Building diverse, adaptive,
family-friendly, socially responsible workplaces by walking
tightrope between conformity, rebellion; how
"tempered radicals" work toward transformational ends through
incremental means; turn threats to identities
into opportunities to make positive difference in companies,
world.
Gary L. Neilson and Bruce A. Pasternack (2005).
Results: Keep What's Good, Fix What's Wrong, and Unlock Great
Performance. (New York: Crown Business, 320 p.). Senior
Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton; President and CEO of the
Special Olympics (former senior vice president at Booz Allen
Hamilton). Organizational change; Decision making; Organizational
effectiveness; Management by objectives; Performance. Why
some companies consistently deliver on commitments and produce
great results, others trip over their own shoelaces.
James O'Toole (1995).
Leading Change: Overcoming the
Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom. (San Francisco,
CA: Jossey-Bass, 282 p.). Organizational change--Management;
Leadership.
Bruce Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio (1998).
The Centerless
Corporation: A New Model for Transforming Your Organization for
Growth and Prosperity. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 312
p.). Organizational change; Management. Based on Booz, Allen &
Hamilton clients - values, knowledge, people.
Andrew Pettigrew and Richard Whipp (1993).
Managing Change
for Competitive Success. (Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell, 323
p.). Organizational change.
Thomas Petzinger, Jr. (1999).
The New Pioneers:
The Men and Women Who Are Transforming the Workplace and
Marketplace. (New
York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 302 p.). Wall Street Journal
Columnist. Industrial management; Corporate culture; Creative
ability in business; Employee motivation; Customer relations;
Suggestion systems; Industrial sociology.
Jeffrey Pfeffer (2007).
What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom about Management.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 241 p.). Thomas D. Dee
II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of
Business (Stanford University). Management; Supervision of
employees; Leadership; Organizational behavior.
How poor business
choices on people
management, leadership, performance measurement, competitive
strategy arise when business leaders: 1) fail to consider the
unintended consequences of their actions, 2) rely on naive
theories of human behavior, 3) ignore obvious answers.
James Brian Quinn; foreword by Tom Peters (1992).
Intelligent Enterprise: A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for
Industry. (New York, NY: Free Press, 473 p.). Organizational
effectiveness; Organizational change; Customer services;
Technological innovations.
Cynthia Barton Rabe (2006).
The Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine:
And What Smart Companies Are Doing About It. (New York, NY:
Amacom, 219 p.). Former Innovation Strategist for Intel Corporation.
Creative ability in business; Creative thinking; Problem solving;
Organizational effectiveness. Use of outsiders to stimulate innovation; share
three characteristics: 1) related expertise, 2) renaissance tendencies,
3) psychological distance.
Dan Roam (2008).
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with
Pictures. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 288 p.). Founder,
President of Digital Roam Inc. Problem solving--Audio-visual aids;
Management--Audio-visual aids; Visualization; Creative ability in
business. Visual problem solving, how to
clarify problem, sell idea by visually breaking it down using
simple set of visual thinking tools.
Evan Rosen (2007).
The Culture of Collaboration: Maximizing Time, Talent and Tools To
Create Value in the Global Economy. (San Francisco, CA:
Red Ape Pub., 304 p.). Chief Strategist of Impact Video
Communication, Inc. Business networks; Cooperativeness;
Interorganizational relations; Group decision making;
Globalization--Economic aspects. How collaborative culture is
changing business models, nature of work; how methods can
create value in almost every industry; trend towards real-time,
spontaneous collaboration, "deserialization" of interaction and
work.
Keith Sawyer (2008).
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration. (New
York, NY: Basic Books, 272 p.). Associate Professor of Psychology
(Washington University in St. Louis). Group problem solving;
Creative thinking. Creativity is always collaborative (even when
alone); how to be more creative in collaborative group settings,
how to change organizational dynamics for better, how to tap into
reserves of creativity.
Richard J. Schonberger (1990).
Building a Chain of
Customers: Linking Business Functions To Create the World Class
Company. (New York, NY: Free Press, 349 p.). Organizational
effectiveness; Industrial management.
Peter Senge, et al. (1999).
The Dance of Change: The
Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations.
(New York, NY: Doubleday, 596 p.). Organizational learning;
Organizational change.
Robert Simons (2005).
Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability
Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment. (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 290 p.). Charles M. Williams
Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Control
area (Harvard Business School). Organizational behavior;
Organizational change; Organization. Designing
organizations to maximize performance - accountability system that
defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm.
Donald N. Sull (2003).
Revival of the Fittest: Why Good
Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 203 p.). Organizational change;
Organizational effectiveness; Corporate image.
--- (2005).
Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 288 p.). Associate
Professor of Management Practice (London Business School).
Organizational change; Organizational effectiveness; Corporate
image.
Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (2006).
Breaking Robert’s Rules: The New Way To Run Your Meeting, Build
Consensus, and Get Results. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 192 p.). Group decision-making; Consensus
(Social sciences); Conflict management. How
any group can work together effectively; five key steps toward
consensus building, specific problems that get in way of group's
progress.
Robert I. Sutton (2007).
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving
One That Isn’t. (New York, NY: Warner Business, 224 p.).
Professor of Management Science and Engineering (Stanford
Engineering School),. Organizational behavior; Bullying in the
workplace; Psychological abuse; Courtesy; Work environment.
How managers can eliminate
mean-spirited, unproductive behavior to generate productive
workplace; examples: Google, JetBlue/Southwest Airlines, Cerner
Corporation).
Robert J. Thomas (1994).
What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial
Enterprise. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 314
p.). Professor of Organizational Studies (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology). Technological innovations--Management;
Organizational change; Manufacturing industries--Technological
innovations--United States--Case studies; Manufacturing resource
planning--United States--Case studies; Organizational
change--United States--Case studies; Appropriate
technology--United States--Case studies.
Robert M. Tomasko (1993).
Rethinking the Corporation: The
Architecture of Change. (New York, NY: ANACOM, 213 p.).
Organizational change; Corporate reorganizations.
Michael L. Tushman, Charles A. O'Reilly III (2002).
Winning
through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational
Change and Renewal. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School
Press, 260 p.). Organizational change--Management.
Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (1987).
The Renewal Factor: How the
Best Get and Keep the Competitive Edge. (New York, NY: Bantam
Books, 338 p.). Organizational change; Industrial management.
Robert W. Wendover and Terrence L. Gargiulo (2005).
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Balancing the past and the future,
encouraging diversity of ideas.
James C. Worthy; edited by David G. Moore and Ronald G.
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Organizational effectiveness -- United States; Organizational
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Industrial relations -- United States.
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Corporate culture--Japan; National characteristics, Japanese.
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