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 Danie