The Power of the Tale
Julie Allan, Gerard Fairtlough and Barbara Heinzen

Storytelling is now acknowledged as a rigorous approach, increasingly valued in business and public policy for its ability to offer fresh insights, raise awareness, enhance creativity and deal with complexity and uncertainty. The Power of the Tale takes the everyday stories of life in a variety of organisations and suggests not only why they are vital, but also how to start telling stories that could make a difference in a working environment. . . . Bringing together an intriguing, and eclectic selection of stories, theories and exercises, the authors provide a practical and stimulating way of doing things differently.

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The Boundaryless Organization
Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick and Steve Kerr

The Boundaryless Organization shows how to eliminate the artificial obstacles of hierarchy, turf, and geography that too often stand in the way of outstanding business performance. The text demonstrates how top organizations such as Samsung, Morgan Bank, and SmithKline Beecham are busting boundaries on all fronts, each enjoying results by encouraging the flow of ideas, resources, and talents in and out of the organization, up and down the hierarchy, and across geographic boundaries.

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The Challenge of Change in Organizations
Nancy Barger and Linda Kirby

The Challenge of Change in Organizations shows you how to provide people with the kind of information and support they need to deal positively with the impact of change on their work lives.

Distinguishing itself from the current literature on organisational change, this book focuses on what people as individuals need in times of change and transition. It shows how different people respond and contribute to change differnetly, and explains what you as an executive, manager, business owner, consultant, or employee can do to help people adapt to a new mission statement and a new organisation.

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Breaking the Code of Change
Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Eds)

This work gathers together a collection of debates on organisational change. The articles are arranged into three groups - point counterpoint, and commentary - to give a dynamic, conversational appeal. It offers an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of two views of change: "Theory E," based on the creation of economic value, and "Theory O," based on building organisational capabilities for the long haul.

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Coaching with Spirit
Teri-E Belf

Coaching with Spirit is written for coaches and managers-of all types and levels of expertise. It is a guide that suggests practical ways that you can get into "the zone" and welcome Spirit into your coaching. The book argues that tapping into spirit can help coaches obtain desired results and increase their own (and their clients') well-being.
It offers a guide on how to use spirit to help make integrative, intuitive, creative, and trustful connections, through: Connection - increasing connection with themselves, their client and the whole; Presence - being fully available in the present moment; and Responsibility - having the ability to respond and being accountable for their choices.

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Serious Creativity
Edward de Bono

Creativity is becoming increasingly important for all businesses as competition intensifies, because to act creatively is the best and cheapest way to get added value out of existing resources and assets.

In this book, de Bono brings up-to-date the core concept of his book "Lateral Thinking".

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Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono

The internationally bestselling guide to better thinking used by tens of thousands of people - fully revised and updated.

With the Six Hats methods the fullest use is made of everyone's intelligence, experience and information. Argument is inefficient, ineffective and slow. Argument was never designed to be constructive. The parallel thinking of the Six Hats method is rapidly replacing argument around the world.

Discovering "what is" may not be the same as designing "what can be".

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Lateral Thinking for Management
Edward de Bono

Extract from sleeve notes in the original issue of the book:

Creativity may be a luxury in a non-competitive, stable business situation. But in a highly competitive situation with fast changing circumstances, creativity is so essential a part of management equipment that it can no longer be left to chance or the gifted amateur. Lateral thinking is the deliberate process involved in the escape from old ideas and the generation of new ones. It is essential in the development of new products and new ideas, in problem solving, new approaches to organisation (especially simplification and cost cutting), and the generation of future alternatives in planning.

[De Bono] removes the mystique of creativity to treat it as a definite process which can be learned, practised, and used.

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Use Your Head
Tony Buzan

This manual on how to use the human brain has been translated into more than twenty languages. It presents a range of techniques that are all designed to teach the reader how to think effectively.

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The Mind Map Book
Tony Buzan

A key goal for many of us is to increase our ability to learn, remember and record or store information. The reader is shown how to accomplish this using a range of techniques developed by the author.

This book explains both the fundamental operation of the human brain in terms of its thinking processes and how to unleash and harness its untapped power. It is a comprehensive guide to "Mind Maps", a revolutionary method of accessing intelligence, developed over many years by Tony and Barry Buzan. Mind Mapping offers ways of using and improving memory, concentration and creativity in planning and structuring thought on all levels.

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