The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By

by David O. Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman

Drawing on decades of research experience, the authors conducted extensive interviews with a variety of respected CEOs, academics, experienced executives, and seasoned consultants—and heard the same five essentials repeated again and again.

 

Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation

by Robert E. Quinn and Ryan W. Quinn

Robert Quinn and his son, Ryan Quinn—noted business professors and consultants—explain the four principles of "lift" and how to implement these principles in daily life. Using the history and science of flight as a metaphor, the Quinns demonstrate how each of these principles work and how all these principles must work together for positive results to occur.

 

The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks

by C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishan

This book reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time.

 

Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value

by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood

In this book, the authors explore the advantages of a branded approach to corporate leadership.

 

Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine

by Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn

Authors Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn have created a real-world, how-to playbook of integrated creativity tools and techniques for understanding where innovation comes from and harnessing its power to create a culture where real growth happens on a constant basis.

 

 

Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty

by Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe

First published in 2001, this updated second edition presents a timely and practical guide for "high-reliability organizing" in an age of ongoing uncertainty.

 

Supply Chain Science

by Wallace Hopp

This book offers a framework for understanding how complex production and supply chain systems behave, and provides the "why" of supply chains.

 

Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

by Kim S. Cameron

Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, Positive Leadership presents a concise, accessible and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance.
Click here for Podcast of interview with Kim Cameron about this book, from TeamApproach.com

 

Making the Impossible Possible

by Kim S. Cameron and Marc Lavine

This book tells the story of positively deviant performance and explains the elements that can be helpful for leaders in other organizations interested in enabling their own spectactular success.

 

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

by Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn

This book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. Positive Organizational Scholarship encompasses any phenomenon that leads to positive, nurturing results. This collection of essays, written by established senior scholars, explains why and how these commonsense prescriptions work.

 

Getting Results: The Five Absolutes for High Performance

by Clinton O. Longenecker and Jack L. Simonetti

In this book, Clint Longenecker and Jack Simonetti draw on the wisdom of over two thousand high-performing managers to show you how to improve not only your own performance, but also the performance of the people for whom you are directly responsible.

 

Management Skills for Everyday Life: The Practical Coach

by Paula Caproni

This book is written in a very straight-forward and practical, yet research-based, style focusing on the need to enhance effectiveness, career potential (e.g., salaries, promotions, job choice and flexibility), and general well-being.

 

Marketing Management: The Big Picture

by Christie Nordheilm

Attack marketing problems by utilizing an integrated framework and associated tools designed to help you analyze, prioritize, and then solve these problems.