Leadership on the Line
Ronald Heifetz & Marty Linsky

This manual for leaders explains what they need to know to survive the professional and personal perils of leading, and how to exercise leadership in a way that reduces the chances of getting pushed aside. It addresses the common ways in which leaders are "taken out of action" and spells out how leaders should respond to these dangers.

The book combines theory and practice, offering leaders ways of anticipating and handling those dangers in order to survive and thrive. The authors use a variety of stories and examples to illustrate points of argument, including observations based on first-hand experience.

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The Change Handbook
Peggy Holman & Tom Devane (Eds)

This is a one-stop guide to proven change strategies for tapping human potential in organisations and communities. It features chapters from highly respected change expertsand provides practical answers to frequently asked questions. This new edition is updated with the latest change methods--including cutting-edge technologies that have emerged since the first edition was published.

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Beyond Budgeting
Jeremy Hope & Robin Fraser

This book provides a new model for budgeting that liberates managers from the annual performance trap. It shows managers how, in the absence of a traditional budget, they can still satisfy budget-related needs such as setting goals, and designing pay- and incentive systems.

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Developing Mental Toughness: Gold Medal Strategies for Transforming Your Business Performance
Graham Jones and Adrian Moorhouse

This book applies to elite sport psychology to the business world and show executives how they can thrive on pressure through the development of mental toughness.

It has been written for executives in business who wish to achieve consistently high levels of performance under pressure. It is underpinned by Graham's published research, which shows that high performers do more then merely cope with pressure - they thrive on it! The vital factor in thriving on pressure and moving to a higher level of performance is the development of mental toughness.

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Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together
William Isaacs

In this book, based on over ten years of research with corporations, managers, and business and community leaders, William Isaacs - founder of the Dialogue Project at MIT - shows how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.

It explains how the "art of thinking together" can be used to create a communication bridge in organisations and communities.

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Teams at the Top
Jon Katzenbach

The aim of this text is to show readers how to turn senior executive groups into a team, without sacrificing each member's individual leadership capabilities. It focuses on team-building and uses stories and examples from companies such as Avon and Ben & Jerry's.

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The Wisdom of Teams
Jon Katzenbach

Including stories and case examples involving real people and situations, this text seeks to demonstrate why teams will be the primary building blocks of company performance in the 21st century.

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Punished by Rewards
Alfie Kohn

Punished by Rewards criticises the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.

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Writers on Leadership
John van Maurik

This compenduim provides an insight into the mass of theory and literature on the subject of leadership. It synthesises the wealth of literature and provides a clear and concise overview of the subjects and the major trends which have emerged this century. It looks at the key players - writers, academics and practitioners, and analyses their contribution to the development of leadership.

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Images of Organization
Gareth Morgan

In this pioneering work, Morgan shows how managers can broaden and deepen their understanding of organization and organizational problems, by using powerful metaphors to shape new ways of working.

He demonstrates this through eight different metaphors, seeing organisations as: machines, designed and structured to achieve predetermined ends as efficiently as possible; organisms seeking to adapt and survive in a changing environment; brains, which are flexible, resilient and inventive; with the capacities for intelligence and control distributed throughout the enterprise; cultures, with their own distinctive values, rituals, ideologies and beliefs; political systems, with patterns of competing interests, conflict and power; psychic prisons that get trapped in their own thoughts and actions; flux and transformation, expressing deeper processes of transformation and change; and instruments of domination that exploit their employees, the natural environment and the global economy for their own ends.

This edition of the book has been abridged and revised, to increase its accessibility and usefulness for practising managers.

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Imaginization
Gareth Morgan

Imaginization: An invitation to a new way of thinking about organization and management.

Imaginization is a way of thinking. It's a way of organizing. It's a key managerial skill. It provides a way of helping people understand and develop their creative potential. It offers a means of finding innovative solutions to difficult problems.

Imaginization is an amazing book: practical, deadly serious, light-hearted, accessible, powerful, and fun.

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