- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Comment: "Utilizing research and insights described in this book to motivate my project teams helped boost our performance substantially."
- Start With Humility: Lessons from America's Quiet CEOs on How to Build Trust and Inspire Followers by Merwyn Hayes and Michael Comer
- Comment: "Two executive management consultants provide coaching tips and reveal practical ways to strengthen ones leadership of project teams. There are tremendous rewards to anyone able to apply a small fraction of the behaviors described in this book."
- Leading Change by John P. Kotter
- Comment: "Kotter provides eight steps required to bring about monumental and lasting organizational change based on his many years of experience working with executive managers in Fortune 500 companies."
- Leading Successful PMOs by Peter Taylor
- Comment: "What makes this book different from others is that it touches only lightly on the mechanisms of project / programme / portfolio management and how a PMO runs, and instead focuses on the features and attributes of successful PMOs, and by extension the features and attributes of successful PMO leaders." - Chantel Mertens, Experienced IT Manager
- Strategy Execution Books
1. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
2. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrevelevant by Kim and Mauborgne
3.
Exploring Corporate Strategy by Johnson &
Scholes
4.
Business Model Generation by Alexander
Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
5.
The Strategy Focused Organization by Robert S.
Kaplan and David P. Norton
6.
Crafting and Executing Strategy by Arthur
Thompson, A. Strickland, and John Gamble
7.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan - The focus of this book is executive management tactical participation in three core areas: people, strategy and operating plans. The book contains no shortage of circumstances where very successful executive managers roll up sleeves to guide development and execution of successful action plans that convert strategy into action.
8.
Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds
of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg
9.
Profit from the Core by Chris Zook
10.
Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas Into Great
Results by Peter Sheahan
11.
Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive
Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield and
Elizabeth J. Altman
12.
Strategy Execution: Translating Strategy into
Action in Complex Organizations by Andrew MacLennan
13.
Flawless Execution by James D. Murphy
14.
Management and Machiavelli by Anthony Jay
15.
Strategic Management by John Pearce and Richard
Robinson
16.
Strategy Maps, Alignment, and The Execution
Premium*
17.
Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics by
Ralph Stacey
18.
Strategic Learning by Willie Pietersen
19.
Strategic Navigation: A Systems Approach to
Business Strategy by H.W. Dettmer
20.
The Strategy Process: A Practical
Handbook for Implementation in Business by Markus Venzin
21.
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy by Ross,
Weill, and Robertson
22.
Knowledge Management Toolkit by Amrit Tiwana
23.
Simple Solutions to Strategic Success by Clive
Howe
24.
The Discipline of Market Leaders by Micheal
Treacy. It's an older book but it puts customer value at the center of
strategy, which believe it or not often gets overlooked during strategy
development. Read this book and it will change the way you position your
strategic planning.
25.
Big Ideas to Big Results, by Kanazawa and Miles,
provides an explicit process to find the open space in a competitive market.
Lots of great ideas packed into this book. There are firms that use quite a bit
of the tools, adding to their strategy and planning process after reading this
book
26.
Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel
27.
Reinventing Strategy by Willie Pietersen. It is
excellent in both analysis and execution. He is a top Professor at Columbia
and has loads of high power exec experience. He adopts a sensible and effective
eclectic approach.
28.
The New How by Nilofer Merchant
29.
Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government
and Nonprofit Agencies by Paul Niven.
