LEADING CHANGE
by John P. Kotter

Kotter offers an eight-step process that consists of establishing a sense of urgency by analyzing competition and identifying potential crises; putting together a powerful team to lead change; creating a vision; communicating the new vision, strategies, and expected behaviour; removing obstacles to the change and encouraging risk taking; recognizing and rewarding short-term successes; identifying people who can implement change; and ensuring that the changes become part of the institutional culture for long-term transformation and growth.

PERFECTIONISM: A SURE CURE FOR HAPPINESS
by J. Clayton Lafferty

This book is addressed to anyone caught up in the illusory pursuit of the unrealistic and unattainable standard of perfection. Lafferty maintains that perfectionism, contrary to the popular belief that it is an admirable character trait, actually contributes to physical illness and unhappiness in the individual and creates conflict and dissatisfaction in the home and workplace.

LEADING CHANGE
by James O'Toole

True leaders lead by encouraging, not oppressing. And the finest leaders have always shared leadership with their followers. Rather than dictating, they create organizations that welcome change and self re-evaluation, and they foster an atmosphere of open-mindedness and fresh thinking. This book proposes a bold new vision of leadership--one rooted in moral values and a consistent display of respect for all followers.

LEARNING IN RELATIONSHIPS
by Ron Short

Organizations and individuals suffer immensely when relationships sour. Costs soar. Waste multiplies. Pain and resentments paralyse work and productivity. What if these outcomes could be avoided? Learning in Relationship says they can, and rather easily at that. These difficulties are seldom because of malevolence (although we often assume so) or impossible individuals (although we often think "they" are), but because we miss, misinterpret, and misattribute information.

ZAPP! THE LIGHTENING OF EMPOWERMENT
by William C. Byham

Unlike other business guides that separate employees from management, Zapp! merges the needs of each into a cohesive whole, to improve productivity and worker satisfaction, in order to make profits and empower workers

STEWARDSHIP: CHOOSING SERVICE OVER SELF-INTEREST
by Peter Block

As a successful managing strategy for corporate, governmental, and non-profit organizations, "stewardship" is, fundamentally, the spirit of partnership and service. Stewardship explains how to integrate the management of work and the doing of work to redistribute purpose and power within an organization (From the publisher).

LEARNING AS A WAY OF BEING
by Peter Vail

Vaill couples the concept of the "learning organization"--continual, on-the-job education and training for managerial leadership--with the continual change that permeates the modern workplace to create an innovative method of "learning as a way of being," based on self-direction, creativity, and expressiveness.

THE WEB OF INCLUSION
by Sally Helgesen

The author introduces an innovative approach to business management for the post-industrial economy that emphasizes inclusive, flexible, interconnected, technology-enhanced, and human-centred organizations. uses the metaphor of a spider's interweavings to symbolize what should be the new corporate structure. The web becomes not so much a sign of the information superhighway as it does an icon of a seamless, non-hierarchical, communications-oriented organization. This fluidity, she contends, is best equipped to handle the millennium's top five issues: diversity, marketing, employee empowerment, training, and strategic alliances (from Booklist).