Recommended Reading

What’s on our bookshelf

  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Harper Business, 2002.
  • Confidence, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Random House Business Books, 2005.
  • Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Crown Business, 2004.
  • Contented Cows Give Better Milk, Bill Catlette, Richard Hadden, Williford Communications, 2000.
  • Crucial Confrontations, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson et al, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, 2002.
  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999.
  • Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World, Peter Kostenbaum, Peter Block, Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001.
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Jim Collins, Harper Collins, 2001.
  • Making a Life, Making a Living, Mark Albion, Warner Books, 2000.
  • Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Peter F. Drucker, HarperBusiness, 2001.
  • Maslow on Management, Abraham H. Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton, Free Press, 2001.
  • Post-Capitalist Society, Peter F. Drucker, HarperBusiness, 1994.
  • Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors, Patrick M. Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 2006.
  • Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer, Jossey-Bass, 2000.
  • Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest, Peter Block, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, April 1996.
  • The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters, Peter Block, Berrett-Koehler Pub, 2001.
  • The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground, Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman, Bantam, 1997.
  • The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work, Peter Block, Jossey-Bass, 1991.
  • The Experience Economy, B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick M. Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 2002.
  • The Last Word on Power, Tracy Goss, Currency, 1995.
  • The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

ResourcesAndTools

THRIVE: Standing On Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World

By Mike Cook
St Lynn's Press; 225 pp;
$18.95
Publication Date
November 2, 2006
ISBN: 0-9767631-5-X
and 978-0-9767631-5-4
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