Management Fads and Buzzwords
David Collins

The text argues that the fads and buzzwords of management deflect critical inquiry and limit useful action because they present a "ready made" view of the world, which rejects the benefits of theoretical analysis and reflection. The book attempts to "unpack" the "guru industry" and the fads and buzzwords of management to provide a 'critical-practical' analysis, designed to allow readers to locate, to understand and to critique management fashion.

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Principle Centred Leadership
Stephen Covey

This is a guidebook to personal fulfilment and professional success through "principle-centered leadership" based on timeless principles - showing how goals of excellence and total quality express an innate human need for progress in personal and organisational life.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey

According to the author, to live with security and wisdom, and be able to take advantage of the opportunities created by change, we need fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity. In this guide, Covey defines the "habits" as "the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire" and states that the seven habits of the title are not mutually exclusive but, when developed together, help to form a well-rounded, sensitive, confident and effective human being.

He aims to help the reader overcome the barriers that prevent many of us from taking a long hard look at ourselves, and introduces new rules allowing us to move first from dependence to independence and then towards the ultimate goal of interdependence.

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Developing Strategies for Change
John Darwin, Phil Johnson and John McAuley

Developing Strategies for Change provides a critical understanding of the core debates in strategy and change. After exploring the dominant approaches to strategy, the way in which these approaches relate to those of change is examined. The concept of management mindsets - influenced by the dominant culture of the organisation - is introduced to discover how these mindsets influence strategy formulation and responses to change.

The book also explores the key themes in radical views of strategy, presenting a challenging view of chaos, turbulence, and the sorts of approaches required of the manager that go beyond rationalist recipes in developing strategy and managing change.

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The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker

The measure of the executive, the author reminds us, is the ability to get the right things done. This text identifies the five talents essential to effectiveness, and explores how these talents can be learned by the executive.

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Strategy Synthesis
Bob de Wit and Ron Meyer

This is a streamlined version of De Wit and Meyer's text, "Strategy: Process, Content, Context". It contains a range of key articles with text contextualising the debates around key issues, allowing a wider range of views to be explored within each debate. Each chapter includes a short case with introductory editorial text.

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Enlightened Office Politics
Michael & Deborah Dobson

Office politics are often seen as the unethical manipulations of ruthless people. This text sheds light on office politics and shows readers how to keep up by using them in powerful, approriate ways that will keep their integrity intact.

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

This twentieth anniversary edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has been dramatically revised, with more than fifty percent new material, including:

Recent developments in brain research that relate to drawing

New insights on the use of drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education

• Instruction on self-expression through drawing
• Ways to step beyond black-and-white drawing into color
• Detailed advice on applying the five basic skills of drawing to solve problems.

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Drawing on the Artist Within
Betty Edwards

Drawing on the Artist Within . . . focuses on innovation and invention, imagination and creativity. In a series of dramatically effective exercises [Edwards] shows you how to release your true creative potential in all areas of your life:

• Stimulate your ability to think creatively
• Sharpen your powers of perception and bring imagination into your everyday life
• See aspects of yourself, and your personal and business relationships, as you have never seen them before
• Be more creative in your work
• Bring new, more effective, skills to your problem-solving.

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Dialogue
Linda Ellinor and Glenna Gerard

A dynamic new system for fostering effective communications within groups, dialogue breaks down barriers, creates partnerships, and helps team members achieve optimal results.

In this book, managers learn how to use the full range of dialogue methods, including its four fundamental techniques: suspension of judgment, listening, identification of assumptions, and inquiring/ reflection.

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