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| READING LIST |
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANIZING by Karl E. Weick
"Sets forth the foundations of what today we call 'learning organizations.' "
DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS by Everett M. Rogers
"The definitive treatise on how new innovations become adopted by a general
public."
THE HUMAN SIDE OF ENTERPRISE by Douglas McGregor
"Set forth the foundations of humanistic management and argued that the
performance of an organization lies in direct proportion to its ability to tap human
potential."
THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE by Tracy Kidder
"The true story of a project team working with limited resources to design
a new computer in less than a year." (more)
THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT by Peter F. Drucker
"Had a profound effect on the thinking of many company builders."
OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. Edwards Deming
"One of the two key texts of the quality movement."
CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS by Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers
"No enterprise can prosper solely on efficiency; it must also have that magic spark of creativity and innovation."
IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman
"Gave hundreds of thousands of people the confidence to trust their instincts and participate in a revolution to dismantle the oppressive, inhuman structures that dominated our business institutions."
Other reading for managers:
Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal.
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman.
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale.
Means of Ascent (volume two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A. Caro
Truman by David McCullough.
The Panda's Thumb by Stephen J. Gould.
The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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| BIOGRAPHICAL INFO |
JIM COLLINS
Author, "Built to Last"
Jim Collins is a leading thinker and researcher on enduring great companies — how
they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become
great companies. Having invested a decade of research into the topic, he has
co-authored three books, including "Built to
Last," a fixture on the
Business Week Best Seller List for over four years — 53 months running —
generating over 70 printings and translations into 16 languages. His work has been
featured in Fortune, The Economist, USA Today, Industry Week, Inc., and Harvard
Business Review.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, he began his research and
teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he
received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management
laboratory in Boulder, Colo., where he conducts multi-year research projects and
works with executives from the private, public, and social sectors. He has served as
a teacher to senior executives and CEOs at over 100 corporations, including: Starbucks,
Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Times Mirror, Patagonia, Sears, ARCO, American
General, and W.L. Gore. He has also worked with the non-corporate sector, at such
organizations as the Leadership Network of Churches, Johns Hopkins Medical School,
the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit
Management, and Vice President Al Gore's Reinventing Government Conference.
Jim invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects,
often five or more years in duration, to develop fundamental insights and then
translate those findings into books, articles and lectures. He uses his management
laboratory to work directly with executives and to develop practical tools for
applying the concepts that flow from his research. Jim is completing a new
research project and writing a book on how executives can
create significant and lasting shifts in the performance and stature of their
organizations.
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