21st Century Readings in the Areas of Learning, Leadership, Management

(August 2008)
An Anthology of Recommended Readings prepared by Dr. Donald Smith, Vice President of ME&A for Learning Technologies. Dr. Smith updates the list on a quarterly basis. If you wish to comment on this list, Don can be reached at learningsmitty@rogers.com Also, visit our section on Training and Performance Enhancement to review ME&A’s work in these fields.

ALBRECHT, Karl.  Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success.San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006. 

BATTLEY, Susan.  Coached to Lead; How to Achieve Extraordinary Results with an Executive Coach.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006. 

BENNIS, Warren, SPREITZER, Gretchen, and CUMMINGS, Thomas.  The Future of Leadership: Today’s Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow’s Leaders.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass, 2001. 

BLANCHARD, Ken  Leading at a Higher Level.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 2007. 

BOYATZIS, Richard, and McKEE, Annie.  Resonant Leadership.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Harvard Business School Press, 2005.

BRADY, Chris, and Woodward, Orrin.  Launching a Leadership Revolution:Mastering the Five Levels of Influence.  New York, New York:  Business Plus, 2005.

CLINTON, Bill.  GIVING:  How Each of Us Can Change the World. New York, New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

CLOUD, Dr. Henry.  Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality. New York, New York:  HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. 

CHOWDHURY, Subir.  Management 21C: Someday We’ll All Manage This Way.  London, England:  Pearson Education Limited, 2000. 

CHOWDHURY, Subir.  Organization 21C: Someday All Organizations will Lead This Way.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Pearson Education Limited, 2002. 

CLOKE, Kenneth, and GOLDSMITH, Joan.  The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003. 

COVEY, Steven.  The 8^th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness.  New York, New York:  Free Press, 2004. 

DRUCKER, Peter.  Management (Revised Edition).  New York, New York:  HarperCollinsPublishers, 2008. 

FLAUM, Sander, and FLAUM, Jonathon.  The 100-Mile Walk – A Father and Son on a Quest to Find the Essence of Leadership.  New York, New York: AMACOM, 2006. 

FRIEDMAN, Thomas L.  The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.  New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 

FULMER, Robert M., and GOLDSMITH, Marshall.  The Leadership Investment: How the World’s Best Organizations Gain Strategic Advantage Through Leadership Development.  New York, New York: AMACOM, 2001.

GEORGE, Bill.  Authentic Leadership:  Rediscovering the Secrets to CreatingLasting Value.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003.

GEORGE, Bill.  True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership.San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2007. 

GERZON, Mark.  Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities.  Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. 

GILLEY, Jerry W., and MAYCUNICH, Ann.  Organizational Learning, Performance, and Change: An Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Perseus Publishing, 2000. 

GOFFEE, Rob, & JONES, Gareth.  Why Should Anyone Be Led By YOU?  What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader.  Boston Massachusetts:  Harvard Business School Press, 2006. 

GOLDSMITH, Marshall, LYONS, Laurence, & FREAS, Alyssa.  Coaching for Leadership: How the World’s Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2000. 

GOLDSMITH, Marshall, GOVINDARAJAN, Vijay, KAYE, Beverley, & VICERE, Albert. A.  The Many Facets of Leadership.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, California:  2000. 

GOLDSMITH, Marshall, et al.  Global Leadership: The Next Generation.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, California:  2003. 

GOLEMAN, Daniel, BOYATZIS, Richard, and McKee, Annie.  Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Harvard Business School Press, 2002. 

GRANATSTEIN, J. L.  Whose War is it? How Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World.  Toronto, Canada:  HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., 2007. 

HACKMAN, J. Richard.  Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

HAMEL, Gary.  The Future of Management.  Boston, Mass., Harvard Business School Press, 2007. 

HANDY, Charles.  The Elephant and the Flea.  London, England:  Hutchinson, Random House, 2001. 

HARRIS, Jim.  The Learning Paradox: Gaining Success & Security in a World of Change.  London, England:  Capstone Publishing Ltd., 2002.

HESSELBEIN, Frances.  Hesselbein on Leadership.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002. 

HESSELBEIN, Frances, and JOHNSTON, Ron.  A Leader to Leader Guide.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002. 

HESSELBEIN, Frances, and SHINSEKI, General Eric K. (USA Retired) BE – KNOW – DO: Leadership the Army Way.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004. 

HESSELBEIN, Frances, GOLDSMITH, Marshall, and SOMERVILLE, Iain.  Leading for Innovation.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002. 

HESSELBEIN, Frances, and, GOLDSMITH, Marshall.  The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era. . San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006. 

JOSSY-BASS PUBLISHERS (Ed.).  Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003. 

JOSSY-BASS PUBLISHERS (Ed.).  Management Skills: A Jossey-Bass Reader.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004. 

KATZENBACH, Jon R., and SMITH, Douglas K.  The Discipline of Teams:  A Mindbook-Workbook for Developing Small Group Performance. New York, New York:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. 

KETS de VRIES, Manfred.  The Leadership Mystique:  A User’s Manual for the Human Enterprise.  London, England:  Prentice Hall, 2001. 

KOESTENBAUM, Peter.  LEADERSHIP: The Inner Side of Greatness – a Philosophy for Leaders..  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002. 

KOUZES, James M, and POSNER, Barry Z.  Leadership Challenge (Third Edition).  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002.  

KOUZES, James M, and POSNER, Barry Z.  A Leader’s Legacy.  San Francisco,California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006.  

LEVESQUE, Lynne C.  Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents.  Palo Alto, California:  Davies-Black Publishing, 2001. 

LOGAN, Dave, KING, John, FISHER-WRIGHT, Halee.  Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization.  New York, New York:  HarperCollins, 2008. 

McLAGAN, Pat.  Change is Everybody’s Business.  San Francisco, California:  Berrett-Koehler, 2002. 

McNEIL, Reggie.  Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006. 

MINTZBERG, Henry.  Managers, Not MBAs:  A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development.  San Francisco, California:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004. 

MORGAN, Howard, HARKINS, Phil, and GOLDSMITH, Marshall.  The Art and Practice of LEADERSHIP Coaching.  Hoboken, New Jersey:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. 

PARKS, Sharon Daloz.  Leadership Can Be Taught:  A Bold Approach for a Complex World.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Harvard Business School Press, 2005. 

PATTERSON, Kerry, GRENNY, Joseph, MAXFIELD, David, McMILLAN, Ron, and SWITZLER, Al.    Influencer:  The Power to Change Anything.  New York, New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2008.

PETERS, Tom.  Re-imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age.  London, England:  Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003. 

PRAHALAD, C. K.  The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid – Eradicating Poverty Through Profits.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Wharton School Publishing, 2005.

QUINN, Robert E.  Building the Bridge as You Walk on it: A Guide for Leading  Change.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004. 

RAELIN, Joseph A.  Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone.  San Francisco, California:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003. 

RAZEGHI, Andrew.  Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future. San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2006. 

ROSEN, Robert.  Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures.  New York, New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2000. 

ROSEN, Evan.  The Culture of Collaboration: Maximizing Time, Talent, and Tools to Create Value in the Global Economy.  San Francisco, California:  Red Ape Publishing, 2007. 

SEGIL, Larraine, GOLDSMITH, Marshall, and BELASCO, James.  Partnering: The New Face of Leadership.  New York, New York:  AMACOM, 2003. 

SENGE, Peter, SCHARMER, C. Otto, JAWORSKI, Joseph, and FLOWERS, James.  Presence, An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society.   New York, New York: Society for Organizational Learning, 2004. 

SENGE, Peter, SMITH, Bryan, KRUSCHWITZ, Nina, LAUR, Joe, and SCHLEY, Sara.  The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World.   New York, New York: Doubleday, 2008. 

SMITH, Douglas K.  On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We… in an Age of Me.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 2004. 

SPEARS, Larry C., and LAWRENCE, Michele.  Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding Though Trust, Bravery, and Forgiveness..  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004. 

SPEARS, Larry C., and LAWRENCE, Michele.  Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21^st Century. New York, New York:  John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 

SPITZER, Robert J.  The Spirit of Leadership: Optimizing Creativity and Change in Organizations.  Provo, Utah:  Executive Excellence Publishing, 2000.

SYDANMAANLAKKA,  Penntil.  An Intelligent Organization: Integrating Performance, Competence, and Knowledge Management.  Oxford, England:  Capstone Publishing, 2002. 

THOMAS, Robert J.  Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader.  Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Press, 2008. 

TICHY, Noel M.  The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win.  New York, New York:  HarperBusiness, 2002. 

TICHY, Noel M. and BENNIS, Warren G.  Judgment:  How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.  New York, New York:  Penguin Group, 2007. 

WALL, Bob.  Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Developing the Star Potential in Your Employees.  New York, New York: AMACOM, 2007. 

WEISS, David S., MOLINARO, Vince, and DAVEY, Liane. Leadership  Solutions:  The Pathway to Bridge the Leadership Gap.  Mississauga, Ontario:  John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

WELTER, Bill, and EGMON, Jean. The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2005.  

WHEATLEY, Margaret J.  Finding Our Way:  Leadership for an Uncertain Time.  San Francisco, California:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2005. 

WILCOX, Martin (Ed.).  The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action: How Managers and Organizations Can Improve the Practice of Leadership.  San Francisco, California:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004. 

ZENGER, John H., and FOLKMAN, Joseph.  The Extraordinary Leader:  Turning Good Managers Into Great Leaders.  New York, New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2002. 

ZIGARMI, Drea, FOWLER, Susan, and LYLES, Dick. Achieve Leadership Genius.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  FT Press, 2007.