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Trends

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas Friedman

A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Daniel Pink

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell

Future Edge: Discovering the New Paradigms of Success, Joel Barker;

Future Think: How To Think Clearly in a Time of Change, Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown

The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, Gregg Easterbrook

Revolutionary Wealth: Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler

The Flight of the Creative Class, Richard Florida

Massive Change, Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute Without Boundaries

Thinking

Quantum Leap Thinking: An Owner’s Guide to the Mind, James Mapes

Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self, Rosalene Glickman

The Whole Brain Business Book, Ned Herrmann

Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work, John C. Maxwell

Mindfulness, Ellen J. Langer

How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, Rushworth M. Kidder

Have the Attitude! The Thinking That Makes Great Things Happen, Carol Quinn

Innovation and Creativity

The Innovator’s Dilemma: Clayton M. Christensen

The Ten Faces Of Innovation: Tom Kelley, with Jonathan Littman

The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas, Elaine Dundon

The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson

Thinker Toys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques, Michael Michalko

Conceptual Blockbusting, James M. Adams

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life: Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

When Sparks Fly: Harnessing the Power of Group Creativity, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, Walter C. Swap

Organizing for the Creative Person, Dorothy Lehmkuhl, Dolores Cotter Lamping

Collaboration/Effective Meetings

How Great Decisions Are Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues: Don Maruska

How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions, David Straus, Thomas C. Layton

How To Make Meetings Work, Michael Doyle, David Straus

Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono

Preferred Futuring: Envision the Future You Want and Unleash the Energy to Get There, Lawrence Lippitt

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K Smith

Organizing Genius: Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman

Leadership and Change

The Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Evolutionary Leadership, Susan Annunzio

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick M. Lencioni

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Margaret J. Wheatley

Leading Change, John Kotter

Leading Change, James O’Toole

The Heart of Change, John Kotter

Management and Communication Skills

Don’t Hire Anyone Without Me: A Revolutionary Approach to Interviewing & Hiring the Best, Carol Quinn

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In, Roger Fisher, William Ury

The Power of a Positive No, William Ury

Be Heard Now: Lee Glickstein

Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, Deborah Tannen

Working the Shadow Side: A Guide to Positive Behind the Scenes Management, Gerard Egan

Write It Down, Make It Happen: Henrietta Anne Klauser

Eat That Frog, Brian Tracey

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen R. Covey

Making Work Work: New Strategies for Surviving and Thriving at the Office, Julie Morganstern

Small Business

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing, Harry Beckwith

Purpose and Personal Development

Now, Discover Your Strengths: Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

Finding Flow, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism: A Quest For Purpose In the Modern World, Charles Handy

Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, William Bridges

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers

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