Management Resources

Ordered by impact

Peopleware - Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Excellent review of techniques and philosophies that do and don't work - especially for systems and software development.

Integrity Selling
by Ron Willingham
Whether it be your employees, boss, vendors or customers; everyone has to sell to be effective. This book identifies personality types and how to sell to each of them without manipulation or coercion.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
by Peter Drucker

Please Understand Me by Keirsey & Bates (Myers Briggs); 619 632 1575
Excellent explanation of the different personality types and how they determine attitudes and behavior.

The One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

Rethinking the Corporation: The Architecture of Change
by Robert Tomasko

Organizational Culture and Leadership
by Edgar H. Schein

Principle Centered Leadership
by Stephen R. Covey; 800 255 0777

Warfighting
Principles and practices of leadership
by General A. M. Gray

Rogue Warrior, Red Cell, Green Team
all by Richard Marcinko
Guerrilla style leadership in organizations that don't tolerate independent thought.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey;
NY Times Bestseller

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams
by Kenneth Blanchard

In Search of Excellence
by Tom Peters & Bob Waterman

Cultural Change
Corporate Cultures by Terrance Deal and Alan H. Kennedy

The Portable MBA In Entrepreneurship
by William D Bygrave