Don's Picks

No Ordinary Boot Camp
by Noel M. Tichy University of Michigan Business School
Strategic Planning
Competitive Analysis
Leadership
Change Management
Organizational Design/ Analysis/ Psychology

I. Strategic Planning

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Eleventh Edition
by Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., University of Alabama---Tuscaloosa
A. J. Strickland III, University of Alabama---Tuscaloosa
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (March 1999)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0073037141.mhtml

Strategic Thinking - Strategic Action
by Gordon Pearson
Publisher: Prentice Hall (November 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0134535804/002-8875571-2923636

The 500-Year Delta : What Happens After What Comes Next
By Jim Taylor, Watts Wacker, Howard Means (Contributor)
Publisher: Harperbusiness (July 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887309119/002-8875571-2923636

Leadership Through Strategic Planning (Smart Strategies Series)
By Annabel Beerel
Publisher: Intl Thomson Business Pr (Shrt Dsc) (July 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861522088/002-8875571-2923636

The Smart Organization : Creating Value Through Strategic R&D
By James E. Matheson, Jim Matheson
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr (January 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/087584765X/002-8875571-2923636

CASES IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Tenth Edition
By A. J. Strickland III, University of Alabama---Tuscaloosa
Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., University of Alabama---Tuscaloosa
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (November 1997)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256241481.mhtml

CORPORATE STRATEGY: A Resource Based Approach
By David J. Collis, Harvard University---Cambridge
Cynthia A. Montgomery, Harvard Business School
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (October 1997)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072895438.mhtml

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II. Competitive Analysis

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT: Culture, Strategy and Behavior, Text and Cases, Fourth Edition
By: Richard M. Hodgetts, Florida International University
Fred Luthans, University of Nebraska
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (July 1999)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072282827.mhtml

Competitive Intelligence and Analysis: Beating the Competition (Wiley Series in Practical Strategy)
By D. E. Hussey, Per V. Jenster
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover (November 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471984078/qid=921025309/sr=1-1/002-8875571-2923636

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (Harvard Business Review Series)
By Harvard Business School
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
Paperback - 224 pages (September 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875848818/002-8875571-2923636

MANAGEMENT: Building Competitive Advantage, Fourth Edition
By: Thomas Bateman, University of North Carolina---Chapel Hill
Scott A. Snell, Pennsylvania State University---University Park
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (August 1998)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256261423.mhtml

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: The Challenge Of Global Competition, Seventh Edition
By: Donald Ball
Wendell H. Mc Culloch, California State University---Long Beach
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (August 1998)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256262063.mhtml

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
By Michael E. Porter, Michael Porter
Publisher: Free Press
Hardcover - 592 pages 1st Free p edition (June 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684841460/o/qid=920953720/sr=2-3/002-8875571-2923636

From Concepts to Capabilities: Understanding and Exploiting Change as a Competitive Advantage
by Jacques A. G. Hale
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (December 1995)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471957984/qid=921025309/sr=1-2/002-8875571-2923636

Modern Competitive Analysis
By Sharon M. Oster
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press (March 1994)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019507579X/qid=921025309/sr=1-4/002-8875571-2923636

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III. Leadership

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level
By Noel M. Tichy, Eli B. Cohen
Publisher: Harper business (November 1997)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887307930/002-8875571-2923636

Leading the Revolution
By Gary Hamel
Publisher: HighBridge Company (September 2000)
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1565113950&vm=c

Simplicity - The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster
By Bill Jensen
Publisher: Perseus Press (February 2000)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073820210X/o/qid=991685313/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/103-3461672-7446218

Clicks And Mortar - Passion Driven Growth In An Internet Driven World
By David S. Pottruck, President and CO-CEO, Charles Schwab and Terry Pearce, Founder, Leadership Communication
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons (April 2001)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787956880/o/qid=991685466/sr=2-1/103-3461672-7446218

LEADERS AND THE LEADERSHIP PROCESS, Second Edition
By: Jon Pierce, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis; John Newstrom, University of Minnesota---Duluth
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (July 1999)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072311223.mhtml

LEADERSHIP: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, Third Edition
By Richard L. Hughes, Center for Creative Leadership;
Robert C. Ginnett, Center For Creative Leadership; Gordon J. Curphy, Personnel Decisions, Inc.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (October 1998)
Overview: This text was written for the general student to serve as a "stand-alone" introduction to the subject of leadership.
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256261431.mhtml

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
by Joseph Jaworski, Betty S. Flowers
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub (March 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576750310/002-8875571-2923636

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level
By Noel M. Tichy, Eli B. Cohen
Publisher: Harperbusiness (November 1997)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887307930/002-8875571-2923636

Leading With Soul : An Uncommon Journey of Spirit (Jossey-Bass Management)
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal (Contributor)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers (May 1995)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555427073/002-8875571-2923636

On Becoming a Leader
by Warren G. Bennis, Bennis Warren
Publisher: Perseus Pr (August 1994)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201409291/002-8875571-2923636

The Effective Executive
By Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Publisher: Harperbusiness (April 1993)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887306128/ref=sim_books/002-8875571-2923636

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IV. Change Management

Managing Transitions : Making the Most of Change
By William Bridges
Publisher: Perseus Pr (September 1991)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201550733/002-8875571-2923636

Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
By Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (September 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399144463/o/qid=991685068/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/103-3461672-7446218

Thriving on Chaos
By Tom Peters
Publisher: Harper Trade (August 1988)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060971843/103-3486596-8104662

Harvard Business Review on Change (Harvard Business Review Series)
By Harvard Business School
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr (September 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875848842/002-8875571-2923636

The New Organizational Wealth: Managing & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets
by Karl Erik Sveiby
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub (April 1997)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576750140/002-8875571-2923636

Leading Change
By John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr (September 1996)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875847471/002-8875571-2923636

Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail
by Daryl R. Conner
Publisher: Villard Books (January 1993)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679406840/002-8875571-2923636

Managing Change: Text and Cases
by Todd Jick, Harvard Business School
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text 1992
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256112312.mhtml

Managing Transitions : Making the Most of Change
By William Bridges
Publisher: Perseus Pr (September 1991)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201550733/002-8875571-2923636

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V. Organizational Design/ Analysis/ Psychology

ORGANIZATIONS: Behavior, Structure, Processes, Tenth Edition
By James L. Gibson, University of Kentucky---Lexington/Medical
John M. Ivancevich, University of Houston---Houston
James H. Donnelly, Jr, University of Kentucky---Lexington
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (July 1999)
Overview: Organizations targets the upper-level undergraduate/MBA level course.
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072295872.mhtml

BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS, Seventh Edition
By Abraham B. Shani, California Poly State University San Luis Obispo
James Lau, California Poly State University San Luis Obispo
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (June 1999)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072284617.mhtml

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND MANAGEMENT, Fifth Edition
By John M. Ivancevich, University of Houston---Houston
Michael Matteson, University of Houston---Houston
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (July 1998)
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256269068.mhtml

PSYCHOLOGY AT WORK: An Introduction To Industrial And Organizational Psychology, Second Edition
By Lilly M. Berry, San Francisco State University
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Text (August 1997)
Overview: With an analysis of human work behavior, this text addresses the issues of using psychology at work.
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0697201732.mhtml

Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
by Thomas A. Stewart, Tom Stewart
Publisher: Doubleday (May 1, 1997)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385482280/002-8875571-2923636

The Organization of the Future (Drucker Foundation Future Series)
By Frances Hesselbein (Editor), Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Richard Beckhard, Peter Ferdinand Drucker (Introduction)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers (February 1997)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787903035/002-8875571-2923636

Building a Shared Vision: A Leader's Guide to Aligning the Organization
By C. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Productivity Pr (1996)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/156327163X/qid%3D921022120/002-8875571-2923636

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
By Peter M. Senge
Publisher: Currency/ Doubleday (October 1994)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385260954/002-8875571-2923636

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