Recommended Reading
These books are recommended for their relevance to workforce development and have provided links for easy ordering. Our clients, students and experts enjoy access to a grant-supported lending library.
The Tip of the Iceberg: Managing the Hidden Forces That Can Make or Break Your Organization, by David Hutchins
Description: "Another in the wonderful Learning Fables series by Pegasus, and more evidence that system thinking requires the child in the adult and the adult in the child. What is there to gain from this likable story? Managers might want to know. As it turns out, quite a bit." —Peter Senge
Mindfulness, by Ellen Langer, Ph.D.
Description: "Stretches our minds in startling new directions." —Howard Gardner
The Transparent Leader, by Herb Baum, CEO of the Dial Corporation.
Description: This book explores how to build a great company through straight talk, openness and accountability.
Article: “Redefining Competition in Health Care,” Harvard Business Review, June 2004, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg
Article: “How Industries Change,” Harvard Business Review, October 2004, by Anita McGahan
Past Reading Recommendations we’ve shared:
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't. Jim Collins
- The Power of Full Engagement : Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz - Leading Change, John P. Kotter
- Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn, Gail Evans
- Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life, Gary Hamel
