The Manager's Bookshelf

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

I. INTRODUCTION

Reading 1: Understanding and Using the Best Sellers, by Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom

Reading 2: Reflections on the Best Sellers and A Cautionary Note, by Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom, with Larry L. Cummings, Brad Jackson, and Anne Cummings

II. BEST-SELLER “CLASSICS”

Reading 1: The Practice of Management, by Peter F. Drucker

Reading 2: The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson                 

Reading 3: Out of the Crisis, by W. Edwards Deming                                                                       

Reading 4: The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas McGregor                 

Reading 5: Maslow on Management, by Abraham H. Maslow                                   

Reading 6: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey                 

Reading 7: The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge                                                                                                                             

Reading 8: Competitive Advantage, by Michael E. Porter                                                                       

III:  HIGH- AND LOW-PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS

Reading 1: Good to Great, by Jim Collins                 

Reading 2: Big Winners and Big Losers, by Alfred Marcus                 

Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall, by Jim Collins                                                                                         

IV.  ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND EXECUTION

Reading 1: Higher Ambition by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren

Reading 2: Responsible Restructuring, by Wayne F. Cascio                                                     

V. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Reading 1: Organizational Culture and Leadership, by Edgar H. Schein

Reading 2: Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor, by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and James O’Toole                                   

VI.  MOTIVATION

Reading 1: The Enthusiastic Employee, by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer                                   

Reading 2: Psychological Capital, by Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef, and Bruce J. Avolio                 

Reading 3: Why Pride Matters More Than Money, by Jon R. Katzenbach                 

Reading 4: Mojo, by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter                                                     

VII.  LEADERSHIP AND POWER

Reading 1: Positive Leadership, by Kim Cameron                                                                       

Reading 2: Bad Leadership, by Barbara Kellerman                 

Reading 3: Power, by Jeffrey Pfeffer

PART VIII. TEAMS AND TEAMWORK

Reading 1: Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems, by J. Richard Hackman

Reading 2: Beyond Teams, by Michael M. Beyerlein, Sue Freedman, Craig McGee, and Linda Moran                                    

IX. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Reading 1: Building the Bridge as You Walk on It, by Robert E. Quinn                                                     

Reading 2: A Sense of Urgency, by John P. Kotter                                                                       

X. “UNDISCUSSABLE” ISSUES AT WORK

Reading 1: Workplace Survival, by Ella W. VanFleet and David D. VanFleet

Reading 2: The No-Asshole Rule, by Robert I. Sutton                                                                       

Reading 3: It’s All Politics, by Kathleen Kelley Reardon                                                                                                           

XI. MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING

Reading 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Reading 2: Super Crunchers, by Ian Ayres

Reading 3: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, by Gerd Gigerenzer                 

XII.  ETHICS AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE WORKPLACE

Reading 1:Blind Spot, by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel

Reading 2: Authentic Leadership, by Bill George

XIII. EMOTIONS: POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND IRRATIONAL

Reading 1: Prisoners of Our Thoughts, by Alex Pattakos                 

Reading 2: Toxic Emotions at Work, by Peter J. Frost                 

Reading 3: The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely                 

XIV.  SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AT WORK

Reading 1: Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

Reading 2: Content Rules, by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman                 

XV. MANAGEMENT FABLES: LESSONS FOR SUCCESS

Reading 1: Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson

Reading 2: Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen                                                     

Reading 3: The Fun-Minute Manager, by Bob Pike, Robert C. Ford, and John W. Newstrom                                                     

XVI. CONTEMPORARY THINKING ABOUT MANAGEMENT

Reading 1: What Were They Thinking?, by Jeffrey Pfeffer                 

Reading 2: Managing, by Henry Mintzberg                                                                       

Reading 3: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense, by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton                 

Reading 4: Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman                                                                                         

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography of Inclusions

Index

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