Books
Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader (2nd Edition)
This is a revision of the highly successful first Jossey-Bass reader. Business Leadership provides practical advice for new and seasoned leaders. It explores essential leadership skills and possibilities, tactics for successfully navigating the leadership terrain (and avoiding predictable pitfalls), and ways to support and sustain leaders during the work.
The book contains classic and original chapters from Ron Ashkenas, Karen Ayas, David Batstone, Warren G. Bennis, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Marcus Buckingham, Charles Burck, Kim Cameron, Keith A. Caver, Ram Charan, Donald O. Clifton, Jim Collins, Bill George, Ronald A. Heifetz, Joan V. Gallos, John P. Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, Terrence E. Deal, Andre Delbecq, David L. Dotlich, Peter F. Drucker, Ken Dychtwald, Marc S. Effron, Tamara Erickson, Paul Glen, Loizos Heracleous, Jonathan Hughes, Claus D. Jacobs, Todd Jick, Barbara Kellerman, Marty Linsky, Ancella B. Livers, James MacGregor Burns, Philip Mirvis, Robert Morison, Burt Nanus, James L. Noel, James O’Toole, Robert E. Quinn, Andrew J. Razeghi, Douglas A. Ready, Sandra Robinson, Michael J. Sales, Steven B. Sample, Andrew W. Savitz, Edgar H. Schein, Robert J. Thomas, David Ulrich, Michael Watkins, Norman Walker, Karl Weber, Jeff Weiss [Available January 2008, preorder now.]
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Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader
This is the third book in the Jossey-Bass Reader series. Organization Development is a one-stop guide to the world of planned change. Newcomers to the field can read the book cover to cover and explore organization development’s foundation, scope, focus, purpose, and methods. Experienced consultants and change agents will find chapters that capture best thinking on key topics—resources for fine-tuning skills, learning about intervention options, envisioning organization development’s future, or reflecting on the larger issues in growth and change. Leaders and managers will find the resources they need to understand the route to organizational health and effectiveness, and to develop, launch, and nourish successful change efforts. Organization development has a powerful and influential heritage, solid core, evolving applications and approaches, and a vital role to play in today’s global, fast-paced world of constant change. This volume immerses readers deeply in organization development’s power and possibilities.
A notable book for 2006 - Training and Development, a publication of the American Society for Training and Development
The book includes classic and original chapters from a rich and diverse sampling of contributors: Billie Alban, Chris Argyris, Ron Ashkenas, John R. Austin, Jean M. Bartunek, Franklin Becker, Richard Beckhard, Beth Benjamin, Peter Block, Gene Boccialetti, Lee G. Bolman, David L. Bradford, Barbara Bunker, W. Warner Burke, Bernard Burnes, Jay Conger, David L. Cooperrider, Terrence E. Deal, Linda Dickens, Peter F. Drucker, Jane E. Dutton, the late Peter J. Frost, Marshall Goldsmith, Jay Galbraith, Joan V. Gallos, Marc S. Gerstein, Louis “Tex” Gunning, Phil Harkins, Stuart L. Hart, Todd Jick, Jason M. Kanov, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Steve Kerr, John Kotter, James Kouzes, Edward E. Lawler, Jacoba M. Lilius, Sally Maitlis, Robert J. Marshak, Keith Merron, Philip H. Mirvis, Howard Morgan, David A. Nadler, Glenn M. Parker, Barry Posner, Joseph A. Raelin, Michael J. Sales, Edgar H. Schein, Roger Schwarz, Leslie E. Sekerka, Peter M. Senge, Fritz Steele, David A. Thomas, William R. Torbert, Dave Ulrich, Karen Watkins, Marvin Weisbord, Alan Weiss, Monica C. Worline. Foreword by Edgar H. Schein.
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Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart
Teaching about diversity is different from other management and executive education. It involves questioning our institutions and policies, behaviors and choices, definitions of truth and equity, self-images, relationships, and professional roles. It requires a deep personal journey of self-discovery and growth for instructor and student – and sophisticated ways of authentically engaging in simultaneous personal and professional growth. Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart captures the unique nature of this complex work. The book is the outcome of a developmental project by Gallos and Ramsey who asked seventeen management educators – a diverse group of university professors and corporate trainers all engaged in some aspect of diversity teaching – to join them in a year of learning. Contributors agreed to put aside academic ways of thinking and writing and to openly explore the personal meaning, nature, preparation for, and challenges of the work. Gallos and Ramsey wove a polyphonic whole from the free-flowing, iterative exchanges among the contributors into what has been described as an honest and realistic portrait of this personal, at times painful, yet always energizing teaching. The project was great fun and learning-filled for all. The book is a staple in a large number of university, corporate, and government teaching and training resource centers around the world – a testimony to the power of multiple voices speaking openly on common issues.
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