Anne recommends the following books...

(Unfortunately, Chapters/Indigo does not have direct links to all the below listed books, so clicking on each book cover will connect you directly to Amazon.ca)

The New Workforce by Harriet Hankin

Dramatic trends are already in motion that will force organizations to do some major rethinking about their relationships with their employees.  The New Workforce addresses such concerns as: How can we deal with the conflicting needs of four generations of employees? What changes must we make in our benefits coverage? Our pay policies? Our management training efforts? Do we need new recruiting and retention strategies? Why should the company care about employees' personal values and beliefs?

Free Agent Nation by Daniel H. Pink

With the astute social analysis of Faith Popcorns The Popcorn Report, this book boldly predicts the death of the conventional job. At the dawning of the new millennium, people everywhere are waking up to the fact that commitment to a traditional corporate structure does not guarantee personal validation or financial security. In what is one of the fastest growing movements today, people are rejecting the idea of corporate loyalty to explore more creative ways of making a living.

The Future Factor by Michael G. Zev

World renowned futurist, social scientist, and business consultant Michael Zey examines the important question of what innovations in science and technology will do to change our society and our businesses, as well as how these breakthroughs will change the human species itself. This book is written for people who want a grounding in the future and need to understand emerging social, economic and technological trends to position themselves and their businesses for future growth.

The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey

For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time killing, bureaucratic check and balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
 

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.

Jobshift by William Bridges

An engaging and challenging book outlining how the changing nature of work will dramatically alter how we do our jobs. He persuasively argues that the present information-based economy demands more flexible employment models than a manufacturing-based economy. Bridges states that the emerging economy will not require a set pattern of work from individuals (i.e., a job) but sets of complex tasks, requiring different sets of skills at different times. He uses highly detailed statistics to buttress his arguments. His book is especially strong on the psychological implications of the changing economy, though it might have benefited from charts and graphs illustrating employment trends.

The Servant Leader by James A. Autry

Leadership is a calling – And servant leadership- the idea that managing with respect, honesty, love and spirituality will empower employees – helps you answer that calling.

Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute

This book introduces readers to an important new idea in organizational thinking.  It shows how the problems that typically prevent superior performance in organizations are the result of a little known problem called self-deception. 

The Future of Leadership Edited by Bennis, Spreitzer and Cummings

The Future of Leadership presents 19 original chapters from a stellar group of scholars and experts who represent the leading thinkers in management today as well as some of the newest up and coming leaders.  This book reveals their collective wisdom and candid speculations about the future of leadership and the new economy.

Leading Quietly by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco argues that their larger-than-life accomplishments are simply not what makes the world work. What does, he says, is the sum of millions of small yet consequential decisions that men and women working far from the limelight make every day: how a line worker for a pharmaceutical company responds when he discovers a defect in a product's safety seal; how a manager deals with a valued employee suspected of stealing; how a trader handles a transaction error that will cost a client money.

Organizational Culture and Leadership  by Edgar H. Schein

Organizational pioneer Schein updates his influential understanding of culture--what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed. Focusing on today''s business realities, Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture, offers new information on the topic of occupational cultures, and demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve organizational goals.

The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton, PhD

The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller. It won a Quill Award for the top business book of 2007, and was recently chosen as one of audible.com''s top picks as well.

Contented Cows Give Better Milk by Bill Catlette & Richard Hadden

Inspiring examples of companies that know how to do it right … and a few that don’t. The cold, hard facts about the return on investment from treating people with dignity, respect and consideration. Just what is it that permits one organization to achieve unprecedented levels of success over a substantial period of time while a nearly identical competitor is going down the tube?

When Generations Collide by Lynne C. Lancaster & David Stillman

Generational experts shed much-needed light on how to bridge generational gaps at work by understanding the differences that drive generations apart. Using a wry and practical approach to bottom-line business issues and drawing upon interviews, experiences, and the findings from their national survey.

Generations At Work by Ron Zemke, Claire Raines, Bob Filipczak

At no point in history have so many different generations of employees worked side by side, and they're not always happy about it. This guide explains the differences in values and views, ways of working, talking, and thinking of four distinct generations.

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

E-Myth Mastery by Michael E. Gerber

A practical, real-world program that is implemented real-time into your business, Gerber begins by engaging the reader in understanding why the entrepreneur is so critical to the success of any enterprise, no matter how small or large it may be, and why the mindset of an entrepreneur is so integral to the operating reality of the organization, of the small business, and the enterprise.

A Leader's Legacy by Kouzes & Posner

In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy.