Reference Shelf

The following books are recommended by the staff and clients of the Center for Business and Industry. Feel free to recommend your own at cbiinfo@northampton.edu.

The Assault on Reason, Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire An Energy & Security Revolution: Sen. Al Gore, The Penguin Group, NY, NY, 2007.

An Inconvenient Truth: Sen. Al Gore, Rodale Press, Inc., NY, NY, 2006.

Beat the Odds: Avoid Corporate Death and Build a Resilient Enterprise: Robert A. Rudzki, J. Ross Publishing, 2007.

Corporate Culture and Performance: John Kotter and Jim Heskett, Free Press, 1992.

Deep Change, Discovering the Leader Within: Robert E. Quinn, Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series, 1996.

Earth in the Balance: Sen. Al Gore, The Penguin Group, NY, NY, 1992.

End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation: Barry C. Lynn, Doubleday, a Division of Random House, Inc., NY, NY, 2005.

Execution: Larry Bossidy and Ram Charran, Crown Business, 2002.

FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication: Neil Gershenfeld, Basic Books, 2005.

First Break all the Rules: Marcus Buckingham, Simon & Schuster, 1999.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick M. Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company, 2002.

Good To Great: James C. Collins, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle: Jerri Neilsen and MaryanneVollers, Hyperion, 2001.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Bernard DeVoto, editor, Hartner Books.

The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. J.M.Kouzes and B.Z. Posner, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis; Annie McKee, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

The Real Work of Leaders: Donald Laurie, Perseus Publishing, 2000.

Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing Americans for a Brighter Economic Future, Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century, An Agenda for American Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (authoring organizations), The National Academies Press, 2006.

The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

The Toyota Way: Jeffrey Liker, McGraw-Hill, NY, NY, 2004.

The World is Flat: Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

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