The ultimate management bookshelf
THE ULTIMATE MANAGEMENT BOOKSHELF
Good To Great by Jim Collins
More managers swear by Collins’ 2001 effort than any other book of best practice. By dissecting high-performing organisations, he kick-started a cult of self-improvement.
Leading Change by John Kotter
Kotter brought an analytical eye to major organisational shifts, focusing on how to end a “can’t do” mentality and get things moving. The most illuminating insights lay in where businesses went wrong, rather than the success stories.
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
Why choose between Sgt Pepper’s and The White Album? The Essential Drucker is a greatest hits of the management guru, whose wisdom, particularly on how to extinguish emerging business threats, is undiminished by the passing of time.
In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters & Robert Waterman
Over 30 years old but still relevant; In Search of Excellence advocated strategic thinking in business, long before it was fashionable, in pleasantly unpretentious terminology.
First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
Want to understand what best practice looks like? Try asking 80,000 managers. Some of the insights are obvious, but you can’t fault the thoroughness.