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: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
Peter F. Drucker
HarperBusiness
Out of the Crisis
W. Edwards Deming, Kevin Edwards Cahill, Kelly L. Allan
Mit Press
Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time
Yasuhiro Monden
Productivity Press
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Michael Hammer
HarperBusiness
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Anniversary)
Eliyahu M Goldratt
North River Press
The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham
Currency
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Gallup Gallup, James K. Harter
Gallup Press.
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Gallup Gallup
Free Press.
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Harvard Business Review Press
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass
Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management (Revised and Updated)
Edward de Bono
Back Bay Books
