Leadership Reading List
Must Reads
Bridges W. Managing Transitions. Addison-Wesley, 1991.
Annunzio, S. Evolutionary Leadership, Dynamic Ways to Make Your Corporate Culture Fast and Flexible, 2001.
ASAE Foundation. Successful Association Leadership: Dimensions of 21st Century Competency for the CEO, 1993.
Fisher R & Ury W. Getting to Yes. Penguin Books, 1991.
Gladwell M. The Tipping Point. Little Brown Co., 2001.
Hamel G & Prahalad CK. Competing for the Future. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996.
Heifetz RA & Linsky M. Leadership on the Line? Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
Jacobson, R. Leading for a Change. Butterworth Heinemann, 2000.
Katzenbach JR and Smith DK. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1993.
Kouzes JM & Posner BZ. Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1993.
Kouzes JM & Posner BZ. The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1995.
Pfeffer J. Managing with Power. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1992.
Quinn RE. Deep Change. Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Scholtes PR. The Leader’s Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Useem M. Leading up, How to Lead Your Boss So You Can Both Win, 2001.
Waldrop MM. Complexity. Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Whyte D. The Heart Aroused. Currency Doubleday, 1994.
Zander RS & Zander B. The Art of Possibility. Harvard Business School Press, 2000
Should Reads:
Badaracco IL & Ellsworth RR. Leadership and the Quest for Integrity. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1989.
Bell CR. Managers as Mentors. Berrett-Koehler, 1996.
Block P. The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work. Jossey-Bass, 1987.
Block P. Stewardship. Berrett-Koehler, 1996.
Bolton R. People Skills. Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Brandenberger AM & Nalebuff BJ. Co-Opetition. Currency-Doubleday, 1996.
Christensen CM. The Innovators Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1997.
Collins J. Good to Great. Harper Business, 2001.
Daloz LA. Mentor. Jossey-Bass, 1999.
DePree M. Leadership is an Art. Dell Trade, 1989.
DePree M. Leadership Jazz. Dell Trade, 1992.
Farson R. Management of the Absurd. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996.
Flamhotz EG & Randley. The Inner Game of Management. American Management Assn., 1987.
Goldratt EM & Cox J. The Goal. North Rivek Press, 1992.
Greenleaf RK. Servant Leadership. Paulist Press, New York, 1977.
Hamel G. Leading the Revolution. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 2000.
Hargrove R. Masterful Coaching Fieldbook. Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Hargrove R. Masterful Coaching. Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Harry M & Schroeder R. Six Sigma. Currency, 2000.
Jandt FE. Win-Win Negotiating. John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
Johnson HE. Mentoring. Griffin Publishing, 1997.
Johnson S. Who Moved My Cheese? Putnam’s Sons, 1998.
Kaplain RS & Norton DP. The Strategy Focused Organization. Harvard Business School Press,
Boston, MA, 2001.
Katzenbach. Teams at the Top. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1998.
Kotter JP. Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996.
Kouzes JM & Posner BZ. Encouraging the Heart. Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Lax DA & Sebenius JK. The Manager as Negotiator. Free Press, 1986.
Mackenzie G. Orbiting the Giant Hairball. Viking Penguin, 1998.
Nanus B. Visionary Leadership. Jossey Bass, 1992.
Parker GM. Cross-Functional Teams. Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Schein E. H. Organization Culture and Leadership. Jossey-Bass, 1985.
Schwartz P. The Art of the Long View. Currency Doubleday, 1996.
Senge PM, Kleiner A, Roberts C, Ross R, Smith BJ. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. Currency Doubleday, 1994.
Senge PM. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Doubleday, New York 1990.
Steward TA. Intellectual Capital. Currency Doubleday, 1999.
Tecker GH, Eide KM & Frankel JS. Building a Knowledge-Based Culture. ASAE Foundation, 1997.
Tichy NE. The Leadership Engine. Harper Business, 1997.
Ury W. Getting Past No. Bantam Books, 1991.
Articles of Interest
Treister, Neil W.; Schultz, James H. The Courageous Follower. The Physician Executive. April 1997.
Heifetz, Ronald A.; Laurie, Donald A. The Work of Leadership. Harvard Business Review. January-February 1997.
Pascale, Richard; Millemann, Mark; Gioja, Linda. Changing the Way we Change. Harvard Business Review. November-December 1997.
Amabile, Teresa M. How to Kill Creativity. Harvard Business Review. September-October 1998.
Hammond, John S.; Kenney, Ralph L.; Raiffa, Howard. The Hidden Traps in Decision Making. Harvard Business Review. September-October 1998.
Davis, David A.; Thomson, Mary Ann; Oxman, Andrew D.; Haynes, R. Brian. Changing Physician Performance. JAMA. September 6, 1995.
Wilson, Robin T. Servant Leadership. The Physician Executive. September-October 1998.
Kaye, Beverly; Jacobson, Betsy. True Tales and Tall Tales. Training & Development. March, 1999.
Mintzberg, Henry. The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning. Harvard Business Review. January-February 1994.
Conger, Jay A. The Necessary Art of Persuasion. Harvard Business Review. May-June 1998.
Sachs, Laura. 25 Strategies to Give Positive Feedback and Constructive Criticism. Medical Practice Management. November/December 1999.
Bell, Chip R. The Mentor as Partner. Training & Development. February 2000.
Yearout, Steve; Miles, Gerry; Koonce, Richard. Wanted: Leader-Builders. Training & Development. March 2000.
Russell, Leland. Painting the Future Picture: Changing an Organization Beyond Its Comfort Zone. Health Forum Journal. January/February 1999.
Gryskiewicz, Stanley S. Creative Positive Turbulence. Association Management. January 2000.
Varian, Hal. 5 Habits of Highly Effective Revolutions. Forbes ASAP. February 21, 2000.
Taylor, Deirdre. Creativity that Lasts. Spirituality & Health. Spring 2000.
Christensen, Clayton M.; Overdorf, Michael. Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change. Harvard Business Review. March-April 2000.
Butler, Timothy; Waldroop, James. Job Sculpting. Harvard Business Review. September-October 1999.
Pareek, Udai. Locus of Control Inventory. The Pfeiffer Library Volume 8, 2nd Edition. Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer. 1998.
Linkow, Peter. What Gifted Strategic Thinkers Do. Training & Development. July 1999.
Lando, Mary Ann. The Holistic Healthcare Executive: Balancing Personal and Professional Lives. Healthcare Executive. November/December 1999.
Kiesling, Stephen. The Company You Keep. Spirituality & Health. Winter 2000.
Cufaude, Jeffrey. The Character of Your Leadership. Association Management. January 1999.
Brown, John Seely; Duguid, Paul. Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge Without Killing It. Harvard Business Review. May-June 2000.
Camerson, Stewart. The Genetic Basis of Administosis. Canadian Medical Association Journal. December 15, 1998.
Abrahamson, Eric. Change Without Pain. Harvard Business Review. July-August 2000.
Hargadon, Andrew; Sutton, Robert I. Building an Innovation Factory. Harvard Business Review. May-June 2000.
Courtney, Hugh; Kirkland, Jane; Viguerie, Patrick. Harvard Business Review. November-December 1997.
Beer, Michael; Nohria, Nitin. Cracking the Code of Change. Harvard Business Review. May-June 2000.





