Recommended Reading for Professional Development:
by Publication Date
1. Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library) by Edward De Bono (Paperback – Oct 29, 1973)
2. Supermotivation: A Blueprint for Energizing Your Organization from Top to Bottom by Dean R. Spitzer (Hardcover – Sep 1995)
3. Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Hardcover – January 15, 1996)
4. Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction by William Byham and Jeff Cox (Paperback – Nov 11, 1997)
5. Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business by Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars (Hardcover – Dec 1, 1997)
6. Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised Edition by Ferdinand F. Fournies (Paperback – Nov 15, 1999)
7. Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono (Paperback – Oct 26, 2000)
8. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback – Jan 7, 2002)
9. High-Impact Consulting: How Clients and Consultants Can Work Together to Achieve Extraordinary Results (Completely Revised and Updated) by Robert H. Schaffer (Hardcover – Feb 15, 2002)
10. Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach by James E. Roughton, James J. Mercurio (Hardcover – March 1, 2002)
11. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (Paperback – Jun 18, 2002)
12. Lean Thinking: Banish Waste And Create Wealth In Your Corporation, Revised and Updated by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones (Hardcover – June 10, 2003)
13. The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker (Paperback – Jul 29, 2003)
14. The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win by Noel M. Tichy (Paperback – Aug 10, 2004)
15. Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change by Robert H. Schaffer and Ron Ashkenas (Hardcover – Oct 5, 2005)
16. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Hardcover – Jan 2, 2007)
17. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter (Hardcover – January 8, 2007)
18. Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure And Drive Organizational Success by Dean R. Spitzer (Hardcover – Feb 16, 2007)
19. The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Build the World’s Largest Private Company by Charles G. Koch (Hardcover – February 26, 2007)
20. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback – April 3, 2007)
21. Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (Hardcover – September 13 2007)
22. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hardcover – April 8, 2008)
23. STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence by Terry L. Mathis and Shawn M. Galloway (Hardcover – February 19, 2013)
 











