The Change Masters
Rosabeth Moss-Kanter

In today's increasingly uncertain, competitive and fast-moving world, companies must rely more and more on individuals to come up with new ideas, to develop creative responses and push for changes before opportunities disappear or minor irritants turn into catastrophes. Innovations, whether in products, market strategies, tecnological processes or work practices, are designed not by machines but by people.

The Change Masters shows how people can exert more leverage in organisations and initiate innovation, thus contributing to their companies' and their own successes.

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Strategy Safari
Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel

Strategy Safari describes ten distinct schools of thought on how strategy is formed, to give the reader exposure to the whole field as it has developed. The book includes a discussion on why organizations need strategies in the first place - to set direction, focus, effort, and define the organisation.

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Writers on Strategy and Strategic Management
Jack Moore

From the time when its conceptual foundations were laid in the 1960s, strategic management's theory and practice have been subjected to intensive research, development and argument from both the business and academic worlds. In this completely updated edition of his classic study, Jack Moore cuts through the mass of material on the subject to present the key ideas of leading authorities in the sector.

In addition to the work of established thinkers, such as Andrews, Chandler, Ansoff and Porter, this new edition includes, for the first time, analyses of the thinking of Kenichi Ohmae, Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes, and Gray Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, while keeping the reader abreast of the most recent writings of Stuart Slatter and David Lovett, the (post-Henderson) Boston Consulting Group, and Henry Mintzberg and his McGill colleagues.

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NLP Workbook
Joseph O'Connor

This workbook is a basic, at-home NLP course, providing easy-to-follow exercises and reflections to which the reader can return time and again. It addresses topics such as How to Change Emotional State, The Power of Language and Getting Results, and can be applied to all kinds of different areas e.g. business, sport, health.

The NLP workbook is designed to be a basic manual for the beginner in NLP, and also a clear and easy reference manual for practitioners and trainers.

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Beyond Rational Management
Robert Quinn

"In order to understand managerial effectiveness", says Robert E. Quinn, "we must move beyond the theories of rational management and begin to better understand the dynamic, paradoxical, and competing forces that block us from high performance".

In this book, Quinn draws on his extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to provide a new way of thinking about management that helps business and government leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Offering rich stories and insights from business, sports, and public administration, he explains how - by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes - managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems.

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Change the World
Robert Quinn

This book takes the reader "outside the box" of ordinary change theory and challenges us to effect change in our workplace by engaging in personal, transformative change. The message of the book is that by changing yourself you can change the world.

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Pressing Problems in Modern Organizations
Robert Quinn

This is a compendium of leading-edge research on pressing organizational problems - but presented in simple language, with a focus on workable, real-world solutions. Among the eleven important problems addressed are corrosive organizational politics, serving two (or more) masters, overworked people, underemployed human resources, and analysis paralysis.

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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Robert Quinn

This book's main purpose is to help readers to diagnose and facilitate the change of an organisation's culture in order to enhance its effectiveness. Using the workbook, individuals can complete the instruments provided and plot their own culture profile, and lead a culture change process.

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Shifting the Patterns
If Price and Ray Shaw

Think of a company as a living creature, not a legal device ... And now, try changing the way it does business! The 'biology of business' is the subject of Shifting the Patterns.

It draws together Chaos and Complexity theories to show how companies evolve and organise in very similar ways to living organisms, and how this knowledge can enable managers to transform their performance. Resistance to change, argue the authors, is buried deep in the company's genes, or 'memes': the basic building blocks of behaviour. These set the pattern, not only for the way the company itself develops, but for the hidden 'rules' which managers and employees break at their peril - and for the ways individuals think and react. However, no living organism can resist the forces of evolution. Outside the factory gates, the patterns are ominously shifting...

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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Peter Senge et al

The Fifth Discipline revolutionised the practice of management by introducing the theory of learning organisations. Now, Dr Senge moves from the philosophical to the practical by answering the first question all lovers of the learning organisation ask - what do they do on Monday morning? This book is a pragmatic guide.

It shows how to create an organisation of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the life-blood of every endeavour and where tough questions are fearlessly asked. . . . It isn't necessary to read the The Fifth Discipline to understand this book - summaries of Senge's key theoretical ideas are included in The Fieldbook.

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