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Favorite Leadership & Motivation Texts

  • 1.  Favorite Leadership & Motivation Texts

    Posted 05-20-1997 12:47
    Thanks to all who responded to my request for recommendations of texts &
    supplemental materials for an undergrad course on Leadership & Motivation.
    Responses are from: Michael Ayers, Janet Barnes-Farrell, Jan Cleveland, Jeff
    Conte, John Curtis, Dutch Driver, Jim Farr, Ken Friedman, Steve Katzman,
    Charles Markline, Steven Mellor, Jack Ring, W. Glenn Rowe, Bill Snavely,
    Rodney Vandeveer, Pat Weber, & Mihai Zsigmond.

    Several folks also sent along additional ideas. One suggestion is to have
    the class complete leadership profiles; another is to have the class
    subscribe to a leadership listserv. Special thanks to Ken Friedman for
    sending along his class syllabus.

    Here are the favorites, alphabetized by author:

    1. Block, Peter. Stewardship
    2. Burns, James McGregor. Leadership
    3. Carlzon, Ian. Moments of Truth
    4. Cialdini, Robert. Influence. Quill (Revised Edition), 1993.
    5. Conger, J.A. 1992. Learning to Lead. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    6. Deming, W. Edwards. 1993. The New Economics for Industry, Government,
    Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    Center for Advanced Engineering.
    7. Deming, W. Edwards. 1986. Out of the Crisis. Quality, Productivity and
    Competitive Position. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    8. DePree, Max. 1989. Leadership is an Art. New York: Dell.
    9. Drucker, Peter F. 1990. The New Realities. London, Mandarin.
    10. Gardner, John W. On Leadership
    11. Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature
    of Legitimate Power and GreatnessPaulist Press, 1977 ISBN 0-8091-2527-7
    12. Greenberg, J. (1994). Organizational behavior: The State
    of the science. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
    13. Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre. 1993. Det sublimas konstnärliga ledning.
    Estetik, Konst och Företag. Stockholm: Nerenius och Santérus Forlag.
    14. Hackman and Johnson. Leadership (2nd Ed.) Waveland Press.
    15. Halberstam, David. 1987. The Reckoning. New York: Avon.
    16. Hammer, Michael and James Champy. 1993. Reengineering the Corporation.New
    York: Harper Collins.
    17. (Harvard) Leaders on Leadership
    18. Herzberg on Motivation. Penton Press, 1990.
    19. Imparato, Nicholas and Oren Harari. 1996. Jumping the curve: innovation and
    strategic choice in an age of transition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.
    20. Keshavan Nair Berrett-Koehler, A Higher Standard of Leadership:
    Lessons from the Life of Gandhi 1994 ISBN 1-57675-011-6
    21. Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Rewards. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
    22. Kouzes, James M. and Barry Pozner. 1991. The Leadership Challenge. San
    Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.
    23. Lawler, E. E. (1994). Motivation in work organizations.
    San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    24. March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. 1989. Rediscovering Organizations. The
    Organizational Basis of Politics. New York: Free Press.
    25. Musashi, Miyamoto. 1993. The Book of Five Rings. Including The Book of
    Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori. Thomas Cleary,
    trans. Boston and London: Shambhala.
    26. Norman, Donald A. 1990. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday.
    27. Pinder, C.C. 1984. Work Motivation. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman.
    28. Schein, E. Organisational Culture and Leadership
    29. Peters, Tom. 1994. The Tom Peters Seminar. New York: Vintage Books.
    30. Reiten, Inger Marie. 1996. Different Times, Different Leaders. Unpublished
    master's thesis. Oslo: The Norwegian School of Management.
    31. Rost, Joseph C. 1991. Leadership for the 21st Century. New York: Praeger.
    32. Rønning, Turid. 1996. A Study on Implementing Leadership in organizations.
    Unpublished master's thesis. Oslo: The Norwegian School of Management.
    33. Semler, Ricardo. 1994. Maverick. London: Arrow.
    34. Skinner, B.F. Walden Two. Prentice Hall, 1976.
    35. Steers, Porter & Bigley, Motivation & Work.
    36. Walton, Mary. 1986. The Deming Management Method. London: Mercury.
    37. Wren, J.Thomas. The Leader's Companion
    38. Yukl, Gary. (1994). Leadership in Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
    Prentice-Hall.

    Many thanks! -wendy

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