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The Power of the Tale

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 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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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
By the same author: THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

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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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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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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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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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.

See Also: Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together (Isaacs)
  

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Developing Strategic Thought
Bob Garratt (Ed)

Shaping and transforming an organisation to meet the demands of a shifting market place means continual learning and adapting. This book addresses the fundamental roles of chairmen and directors in directing the organization through a learning process called strategic thought. The future of an organisation involves more than the management of immediate problems and issues - direction-givers need purpose and passion, vision and values to energise their organisation, balanced with imagination and a capacity to take decisions in times of uncertainty. 
  

This book illustrates the neccesity and the advantages of using strategic thinking and how this differs from strategic planning.
   

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Barry Gibbons

Retired CEO of Burger King and Fortune turn-around champion, Barry Gibbons, brings together some of the most famous names in business today. He takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the careers, lives, and crazy decisions of eccentrics from Walt Disney and Michael Dell, to Luciano Benneton and Malcom Forbes. All of them made decisions which, at the time, seemed odd, rash, and downright weird, but which, ultimately, worked. 
  

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The New Leaders
Daniel Goleman,  Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee
As business reinvents itself at broadband speed, what makes leaders effective has inevitably been transformed. Old assumptions and old modes no longer hold; a new style of leadership that works has emerged amidst the chaos of change. This new leader excels in the art of relationship - the singular expertise which the changing business climate renders indispensable.

Excellence is being defined in interpersonal terms as companies have stripped out layers of managers, as corporations merge across national boundaries, and as customers and suppliers redefine the web of connection. Daniel Goleman argues that emotionally intelligent leaders are now "must-haves" for business. Many readers have been left with "So now what do I do?" and "The New Leaders" aims to answer that question by laying out the map for transforming leadership in individuals, in teams and organizations.
   

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Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad

Leading the Revolution shows how to:

• get off the treadmill of incrementalism

• save your company from becoming a "one-vision wonder"

• harness the imagination and passion of every employee

• develop new financial measures that focus energy on the challenge of creating new wealth

• create vibrant internal markets for ideas, capital and talent.

By the same author: COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE
   

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Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars

Many managers understand that cultural differences affect the process of doing business, but many underestimate by just how much. This book aims to dispel the idea that there is only one way to manager and encourages readers to get to know their own culture before doing business with others. The author explores the cultural extremes and the incomprehension that can arise when doing business across cultures - even when people are working for the same company. The book explains that there are five key factors or orientations that affect how people all deal with each other, do business and manage.

The goal is the "transnational organisation" - one in which the company can take from each country what is best, and for those who are sensitive to these differences, the opportunities are enormous. 
   

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Organization Theory
Mary Jo Hatch

This text offers a comprehensive and original introduction to organisation theory and is designed to provide an even handed, balanced appreciation of the different perspectives that have contributed to our knowledge about organisations. The text's approach is pluralist, reflecting the diverse nature of organisational theory as a field of study influenced by thinkers from a variety of academic disciplines. Specifically, perspectives described as `modern', `symbolic-interpretive' and `postmodern' frame the analysis.
  

A key question addressed throughout the text is the nature of the relationship between organisational theories and the reality these theories describe. 
   

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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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Peggy Holman & Tom Devane (Eds)

This is a one-stop guide to eighteen proven change strategies for tapping human potential in organisations and communities. It features chapters from highly respected change experts, including Marvin Weisbord and Masaaki Imai, and provides practical answers to frequently asked questions. 

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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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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
William Isaacs

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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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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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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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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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 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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This text shows how effective management of human resources holds the key to any organisation's future success. It is organised by results, such as accomplishing business goals, improving efficiency etc, and examples are included from dozens of companies.

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Rewiring the Corporate Brain
Danah Zohar

Zohar claims that organisations have corporate "brains", and that it is only by using the mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of their "brains" that organisations can change efficiently and work well. It aims to provide managers with practical ways of applying this theory.

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