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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, 2005
(I love their concept of finding a blue ocean and what you have to do to get there)
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Changing the Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Fundamental Change in Organizations, Richard Beckhard and Wendy Pritchard, 1992
(Great intro to the people side of business)
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Competing for the Future: Breakthrough Strategies for Seizing Control of Your Industry and Creating the Markets of Tomorrow, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, 1994
(These guys launched the concept of “core competencies” and therefore are the basic source of all outsourcing ideas.)
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Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, James Adams, 1979
(A great little book about what gets in our way of better ideas.)
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Creative Destruction: Why Companies That are Built to Last Underperform the Market – and How to Successfully Transform Them, Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan, 2001
(Lots of data from the stores of McKinsey. Good message about the need to look to the future and prepare)
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey Moore, 1991
(Made me think about start-ups and new products)
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Defining the Business: The Starting Point of Strategic Planning
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Defining the Business: The Starting Point of Strategic Planning, Derek Abell, 1980
(This was an eye-opening book to a Bill as a young consultant. The message is still very relevant. )
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Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail, Daryl Conner, 1992
(Great set of tools and “how-to” concepts.)
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Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in the Age of Complexity, Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe, 2001
(Their view of high performance teams is the best)
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Project Management as if People Mattered, Robert Graham, 1989
(Bob opened my eyes to why projects really succeed or fail.)
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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Gary Klein, 1998
(Great book about decisions in life and death situation. This is not about managers playing with Monopoly Money)
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The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself,Damiel Boorstin, 1983
(This history book should be required reading for every team that embarks on “innovation.”)
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The Halo Effect … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers, Phil Rosenzweig, 2007.
(A stunningly thoughtful analysis of the misuse of data and information. It made me rethink my favorite business concepts.)
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The Knowing – Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, 2000
(Gets to the heart of why we need better practitioners.)
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Think: Why Crucial Decisions Can’t Be Made in the Blink of an Eye, Michael LeGault, 2006.
(LeGault takes on Gladwell’s “Blink” and makes a good point)
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski, 1982
(Henry is an engineering historian. His stories about failure are timeless.)
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Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition, Adrian Slywotzky, 1996
(Eye opening book about success and failure.) (NOTE: Slywotzky is a wonderful thinker about business – all of his books deserve a read.)
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