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Basic Management Bibliography for Library Managers and Leaders
- Bennis, Warren. On Becoming a Leader. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1989.
- Top management authors Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter view this as an essential leadership title and Bennis' best book.
- Boyett, Joseph H. The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas
of the Top Management Thinkers. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
- A compilation of the best thinking of the best management and business thinkers of the day, arranged by topic: leadership, managing change, the learning organization, creating high-performance organizations through teamwork, the pursuit of market leadership, managing and motivating people and business, work, and society.
- Brassard, Michael. The Memory Jogger II. Methuen, MA: GOAL/QPC, 1994.
- A small pocket guide to the basic Total Quality Management tools. Very helpful, like the title says, as a memory jogger. Includes useful charts designed to help you decide which tools are most appropriate for which situations.
- Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
- A personal and workplace management classic. Covers important issues related to personal mastery, communication, prioritization of the things that are of true importance, the ingredients of leadership.
- Covey, Stephen R. First Things First: To Live, to
Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
- This book expands on principles introduced in the 7 Habits and takes you beyond basic time management techniques to learning to "put first things first".
- Drucker, Peter. "Management’s New Paradigms" Forbes (October
5, 1998): 152, 15p.
- This is a good distillation of Drucker’s theories about management
and what is needed now for organizations and institutions to succeed. The
main thrust: you must continuously innovate to survive.
- Fast Company
- This magazine and its
web site keep you up to date
on the very latest in management thinking and cutting edge implementation.
Check the archives for articles by Tom Peters and others. For example, "Rule
#3: Leadership Is Confusing as Hell," FC
44, page 124.
- Goleman, Daniel. "What makes a Leader?" Harvard Business Review (November-December,
1998): 93-102.
- Very good basic article on emotional intelligence on the job. If you want
the full treatment, read Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence.
- Scholtes, Peter R. The Leaders' Handbook: A Guide
to Inspiring Your People and Managing the Daily Workflow. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
- This book is aligned with total quality management concepts
and leadership principles similar to those espoused by Covey. It was written
to help managers
move from the old "command and control" style to the new "inspiring leadership" style.
As with the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, this book augments theory with numerous
practical anecdotes and exercises.
- Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies
and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
- More accessible than Senge's earlier book that introduced
the concept of the learning organization, The Fifth Discipline.
This book takes the five learning disciplines, explains them and adds exercises
and commentary to
make them understandable. Many of the exercises are standard data analysis,
communications, and total quality tools.
