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Library—Great books on strategy execution

Updated March 2013. Additions in red.

We all have a “library” of resources we’ve read that have shaped our thinking and practice.

These are the books I reference regularly.

My top four are in bold. (I couldn’t narrow it down to three.)

If you don’t see your favorites please share them in the comments section.

What’s on your bookshelf?

More resources in the Related Posts below.

Leadership:

• “How to Become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees,” Jeffery J. Fox, Hyperion, New York, 2002
• “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment,” George Leonard, Penguin Books USA, Inc. New York, 1992

Strategic Planning:

• “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant,” W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass, 2005
• “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t,” Jim Collins, HarperCollins Publishers Inc. New York, 2001
• “The Future of Management,” Gary Hamel, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Agency, 2007
• “Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age,” Tom Peters, Dorling Kindersley Limited, USA, 2003
• “Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes,” Robert P. Kaplan and David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2004

Strategic Marketing:

• “The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth,” Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2003
• “The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development,” Milton D. Rosenau, Jr., Abbie Griffin, George A. Castellion, Ned F. Anschuetz, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, 1995

Decision Support:

• “The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking,” Roger Martin, Harvard Business School Press, USA, 2007
• “Polarity Management:Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems,” Barry Johnson, HRD Press, 1996

Business Planning:

• “Corporate Canaries: Avoid Business Disasters with a Coal Miner’s Secrets,” Gary Sutton, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 2005
• “The Definitive Business Plan,” Richard Stutely, Prentice Hall, Great Britain, Revised Edition 2007

Change Execution:

• “The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage,” Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, 2008
• “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done,” Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, Crown Business, NY, 2002
• “How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health,” Alan P. Brache, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002

Change Management:

• “ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and Our Community,” Jeffrey M. Hiatt, Prosci Research Inc., Loveland, CO, 2006
• “Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today’s Transformational Leaders,” Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson, Pfeiffer, San Francisco, CA, 2001
• “The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation,” Dean Anderson and Linda S. Ackerman Anderson, Pfeiffer, San Francisco, CA, 2001
• “Change the Way You Lead Change,” David M. Herold and Donald B. Fedor, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2008
• “The Dance of Change,” Peter Senge, Random House Inc., NY, NY, 1999
• “It Starts with One,” J. Stewart Black and Hal Gregersen, Wharton School Publishing, New Jersey, 2008
• “Leading Change,” John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996
• “Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail,” Daryl Conner, Random House, New York, 1992, 2006
• “Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change,” William Bridges, Da Capo Press, USA, 2003
• “Project Change Management: Applying Change Management to Improvement Projects,” H. James Harrington, Daryl R. Conner, Nicholas L. Horney, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000
• “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard,” Chip and Dan Heath, Random House, Canada, 2010

Communication:

• “The Back of the Napkin,” Dan Roam, Penguin Group, New York, 2008
• “Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time,” Susan Scott, Berkley Books, NY, 2004
• “Mind Maps at Work,” Tony Buzan, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., London, UK, 2004
• “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences,” Nancy Duarte, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NJ, 2010

Culture:

• “As One: Individual Action, Collective Power,” Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley, Penguin Group, NY, 2011

• “Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework,” Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2006

Negotiating:

• “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In,” Roger Fisher and William Ury, Penguin Books, New York, 1991
• “How to Get What you Want: The Negotiating Game,” Chester L. Karrass, Karrass Ltd., USA, 1992

Organization Design and Development:

• “Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization,” Daryl R. Conner, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1998

Project Management:

• Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition, Project Management Institute, 2004

Corporate Governance:

• “Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL,” Roger Martin, Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
• “What Directors Need to Know: Corporate Governance 2003,” Carol Hansell, Thomson Carswell, Toronto, Canada, 2003

Socio-Political-Economic:

• “Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking,” Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Company, New York, 2005
• “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, HarperCollins Publishers Inc. New York, 2005
• “Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883,” Simon Winchester, Perennial Classics, NY, 2005
• “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,” Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Company, New York, 2000
• “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005

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• Breakthroughs in Strategy
• Change Management Conferences 2013
• Change Management videos, webinars and podcasts
• Why share Change Management Resources
• What is “Change Management”? And, is definition important?

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