UA Leadership Reading Room
Top Recommendations
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World (2009), by Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, and Alexander Grashow
The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance (2004), by James Autry
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (2009) by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
Leading change in the workplace
The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books
- The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
- Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter
- Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
- The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge
- First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
- The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins
- Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie
- The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
- The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
- Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
- On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis
- Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
- My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey
- The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
- Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno
- Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson