Best Bets for Business: Eight choices for avid readers
Stay knowledgeable on all things business with this compilation of business reads:
- Smart tribes: How teams become brilliant together by Christine Comaford-Lynch, 2013
Many business leaders scare their employees into being “safe.” This book helps you create a vibrant and innovative team. Includes bibliographical references and index. Find It
- The great workplace how to build it, how to keep it, and why it matters by Michael Burchell, 1967, 2011
What is the business value of creating a great workplace? As organizations grapple with the complexity and challenges of leveraging human capital in today’s hyper-competitive work world, this resource remains a key source for understanding the essential ingredients in and trends of great places to work. Find It - Teaming: What leaders must do to foster organizational learning by Amy C. Edmonson, 2012
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are among the learning challenges today’s companies face. Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Find It - Mastering turbulence: The essential capabilities of agile and resilient individuals, teams and organizations by Joseph McCann, 2012
Rapid and disruptive change threatens the adaptive capacity of organizations, along with the individuals and teams leading them. Based upon more than a decade of global research and consulting, Joseph E. McCann and John W. Selsky outline five capabilities of agile and resilient systems. Find It - Grounded: How leaders stay rooted in an uncertain world by Bob Rosen, 2013
A provocative, personal approach to leadership based on in-depth research with hundreds of executives around the world Confronted by disruptive change and economic turbulence, many of today’s leaders find themselves ill-equipped to manage the hazards they now face. They must contend with chronic uncertainty, cynical employees and personal burnout. Few have seen alternatives, until now. Find It - From smart to wise: Acting and leading with wisdom by Prasad Kaipa, 2013
Drawing on inspiring experiences of historical and contemporary wise leaders such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and even Mahatma Gandhi, the authors identify six characteristics of wise leaders and offer a practical framework to help readers develop their own style of wise leadership that is functional and smart. Find It - CaseBase: Case studies in global business, edited by Andrew Ashwin, 2012
Most of these case studies describe business in an international context, providing an overview of key issues from a global perspective, free of specific country bias. Considering different perspectives helps to develop a broader understanding of the business environment. Find It - Capital in the twenty-first century by Thomas Piketty, 2014
Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover economic and social patterns. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities. Find It
Compiled by Patricia Sobczak, business and public affairs collections librarian
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