Books, Business & Investing, Organizational Behavior

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Patrick M. Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Jossey-Bass (Hardcover)

Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? Large-Print Edition
by Putnam Adult (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2001-11-09)

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, ...
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill "Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partner? Crucial Conversations offers readers a proven seven-point strategy for achieving their goals in all those emotionally, psychologically, or legally charged situations that can arise in their professional and personal lives. Based on the ...

Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by North River Press (Paperback)

A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.

David Allen
Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life
by Viking Adult (Hardcover)

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done.David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, and perspective. Throw out everything you know about productivity-- Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. For those who have already experienced the clarity of mind from reading Getting Things Done, Making It All Work will take the process to the next level. David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides an instantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead of the game. Making It All Work addresses: how to figure out where you are in life and what you need; how to be your own consultant and a CEO ...

Marcus Buckingham
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
by Simon & Schuster Audio (CD) (Release Date: 2007-03-06)

From the coauthor of the million copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your StrengthsMarcus Buckingham jump-started the Strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world with his first two blockbusters. Now, he answers the ultimate question: How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work? Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work. Go Put Your Strengths to Work will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths through a six-step, six-week experience that will tell you:• Why your strengths aren't "what you are good at" and your weaknesses aren't "what you are bad at."• How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths. • The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you, and how to cut out those that don't.• How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like ...

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Tom Peters
The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations
by Jossey-Bass (Paperback)

John P. Kotter
A Sense of Urgency
by Harvard Business School Press (Hardcover)

Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Now, in Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its forms and guises. In this exciting new book, Kotter explains:How to go beyond "the business case" for change to overcome the fear and anger that can suppress urgencyWays to ensure that your actions and behaviors -- not just your words -- communicate the need for changeHow to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your ...

The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
by Simon & Schuster Audio (CD)

In the riveting style of The Tipping Point, Stephen M. R. Covey uncovers the overlooked and underestimated power of trust in a gripping look into what he calls "the one thing that changes everything." Groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting, The Speed of Trust demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver -- a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing.The former CEO of Covey Leadership Center (founded by his father, Dr. Stephen R. Covey), Covey draws on his experience leading a $100 million enterprise to explain how trust can help you create unparalleled success and sustainable prosperity in every dimension of life. He reveals the 13 Behaviors common to high-trust leaders and persuasively demonstrates actionable insights that will enable you to increase and inspire trust in all of your important relationships. The Speed of Trust presents a road map to establish trust on every level, ...

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Crown Business (Hardcover)

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