Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D. Spencer Johnson has repackaged his best-selling adult classic for a teenage audience. The story is identical to the original “Who Moved My Cheese?” parable. The difference in this approach is how the story is told and by whom. In this case, the story is told…
Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change by Seth Godin This author is a former Yahoo executive, a renowned speaker, a contributing editor to Fast Company and author of Unleashing the Ideavirus which has been downloaded more than a million times, making it the most popular ebook ever. He’s been…
The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change by Jeanie Daniel Duck Can you remember a time in the workplace when we haven’t been discussing the subject of change and how we must adapt to it if we are to survive? You’d think by now we’d not only accept…
Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations by Richard H. Axelrod For decades, organizations have been preaching the need for change. Fast Company chose this subject as a recent cover story for its rapidly growing readership. Everything in our lives seems to be changing on a regular basis—including the way we manage change. The…
Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life by Gary Hamel What you will probably notice immediately upon picking up this book is the glossy, heavy-weight paper, the stunning colorful photos, and the vivid, attractive diagrams and charts. Once into the content, you’ll note a similarity to…
If it Ain’t Broke … Break It!: And Other Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World by Robert J. Kriegel Before tickling our funny bones with his best-selling classic Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers, Bob Kriegel shared his unconventional wisdom with readers via this hard-to-put-down, uniquely humorous approach to the subject of change. In…
Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change by Stephen Covey Stephen Covey has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. He has, at times, been criticized for not using enough real-life inspirational stories in his motivational speeches and texts. This book strives to rectify that situation. Covey presents 70…
The Professional Service Firm 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Your “Department” into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation! by Tom Peters The White Collar Revolution is upon us, and 90% of jobs are in danger of major reconfiguration—or extinction. This ground-breaking new series, Tom Peters Trilogy: The Reinventing Work…
Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations by Robert Kriegel and David Brandt Tackling one of the most important business issues of today, the authors demonstrate why the latest panaceas—re-engineering, virtual teams, outsourcing, reinventing, restructuring, downsizing—almost always prove unsuccessful. They expose how these buzzword programs overlook the most fundamental element of…