Chapter 6: Management
Guiding and directing the people around you.
Management is the punching bag of leadership crowd. They say the discipline is boring and uninspiring. The cool kids don't like admitting how essential it is to any organization. Management is the blocking and tackling of business, and the books that we think are the best address the interpersonal dynamics of groups both big and small. It's about time that management got a little respect.
The Essential Drucker
Products / Harper Business
Out of the Crisis
W Edwards Deming
Products / MIT Press
Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time
Yasuhiro Monden
Products / Productivity Press
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Michael Hammer, James Champy
Products / Harper Business
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Anniversary)
Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox
Products / North River Press
The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company (Revised, 20th Anniversary)
Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham
Products / Currency
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Gallup
Products / Gallup Press
Now, Discover Your Strengths: The Revolutionary Gallup Program That Shows You How to Develop Your Unique Talents and Strengths
Gallup
Products / Free Press
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Products / Harvard Business Review Press.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M Lencioni
Products / Jossey-Bass
Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management (Revised and Updated)
Edward de Bono
Products / Back Bay Books
