![]() | The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £4.74 Great fieldbook for building a Learning Organisation
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![]() | The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £8.34 Great introduction to systems thinking and the principles of a learning organisation
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![]() | Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society by Peter M. Senge
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £8.37 Some newer ideas about management, but slightly new agey
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![]() | Designing Organizations: An Executive Briefing on Strategy, Structure and Process (Jossey-Bass Management Series) by Jay R. Galbraith
Buy used from: £0.15 Glabraith is classic, this is pretty hardcore, but it's also quite approachable and less jargonny than most
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![]() | Reward Systems. Does yours Deliver? (Memo to the CEO) by Steve Kerr
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £4.37 Excellent little book that helps to demystify rewards and metrics
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![]() | Fuller R.Buckminster : Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R Buckminster Fuller
Buy used from: £8.67 Buckminster fuller is probably the best systems thinker I've ever read, not strict org design, but essential reading I'd say.
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![]() | What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful by Marshall Goldsmith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.49 Interesting and provocative management book, useful for leadership
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![]() | The Organization and Architecture of Innovation: Managing the Flow of Technology by Thomas J. Allen
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £23.84 Useful space book
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![]() | Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations by Dr. Geert Hofstede
Buy new: £39.99 / Used from: £31.57 Highly detailed, in depth analysis of the cultural differences between people and organisations
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![]() | Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind by Geert Hofstede
Buy new: £9.96 / Used from: £8.00 Much more concise than the above book on culture and orgs, but still not beginners reading!
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![]() | Managing as Designing
Buy new: £47.03 / Used from: £35.74 Fascinating book about what management can learn from diverse approaches to designing
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![]() | Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies by Nikos Mourkogiannis
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £1.88 Excellent book on organisational purpose, refreshing look at strategy
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![]() | Organizational Design: A Step-by-Step Approach by Richard M. Burton
Buy new: £17.93 / Used from: £22.08 Technical and dry, but highly informative and thorough overview of organisation design
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![]() | Guide to Organisation Design: Creating High Performance And Adaptable Enterprises (Economist) by Naomi Stanford
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £10.02 Great introduction to organisation design, and good unbiased comparison of different appproaches to it, including organisation design models
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![]() | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £4.66 Somewhat simplistic, but very readable
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![]() | Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization by Lowell L. L Bryan
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £3.50 Very in-depth and up to date management theory
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![]() | The Future of Management by Gary Hamel
Buy new: £12.85 / Used from: £8.00 Classic Hamel, management theory, with a nice human-touch
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![]() | Images of Organization
Buy new: £29.80 / Used from: £27.00 Geeky organisation design book, tough going, very techy
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![]() | Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives by Theodore Zeldin
Buy used from: £4.95 How to change through conversation, lovely little book, one of my favourites
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![]() | Organization Change: Theory and Practice (Foundations for Organizational Science) by W. Warner Burke
Buy used from: £13.44 Some notions are slightly outdated in this book, but it's a good overview and introduction to the world of organisational behaviour and change theory
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![]() | Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams That Changed Their Worlds (Financial Times Series) by Andy Boynton
Buy new: £18.69 / Used from: £0.16 Great book about teams and leadership
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![]() | The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management by Peter Drucker
Buy used from: £5.26 Classic readings from Drucker, management theory
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