THE FEMALE ADVANTAGE
by Sally Helgesen

Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders documents how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure their companies, and hire, and fire employees. This is a classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles.

THE ART OF FRAMING: MANAGING THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP
by Gail Fairhurst and Robert Sarr

Leadership doesn't just exist behind the podium. This thoughtful, practical guide shows how the best leaders seize every opportunity--from the dramatic to the mundane--to manage meaning, gain support for their vision, and spur action from their constituents.

THE COMPLEXITY ADVANTAGE
by Suzanne Kelly Mary Anne Allison

These authors argue that managers who give company divisions the means to self-organize "will have enthusiastic employee contribution, better information, dramatic increases in both productivity and creativity, lower costs, and the ability to respond rapidly to change in direction." Kelly and Allison go on to describe step by step how the science of complexity can be applied to business. They give four simple rules to follow for successful self-organizing: Trust, learn together, commit deeply, and embrace change. The Complexity Advantage is a useful manual for company leaders interested in complexity science and its applications to business. (Dan Ring - Amazon.com)

CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE
by John Kotter and James Heskett

Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the "culture" of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments.

THE CORPORATE CULTURE SURVIVAL GUIDE
by Edgar Schein

This engaging primer from a giant in the field of corporate culture examines business on three levels-behaviours, values, and shared assumptions-to show how to achieve successful corporate change. Shows readers how to institute real change by outlining the elements of corporate culture and laying down in plain terms how corporations can assess their own atmosphere to determine if they have the right culture for their product and organization. Includes case studies from real organizations to show what successful change looks like and how to dismantle a dysfunctional corporate culture.