Bibliography

Listed below are interesting and useful books for executives who are managing a growing organization.


Adizes, Ichak;
Managing Corporate Lifecycles,
Adizes Institute Publications, Santa Barbara, CA 2004


Bossidy, Larry; Charan, Ram;
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done,
Crown Publishing Company, New York, NY 2002.


Bridges, William;
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change (2nd edition),
Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA 1991, 2003.


Burlingham, Bo;
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big,
Penguin Group, New York, NY 2005.
Collins, James C.; Lazier, William C.;
Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Company: Concepts and Cases,
Irwin, Chicago, IL 1995.


Collins, Jim;
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t,
Harper Collins, New York, NY 2001.


Collins, Jim; Porras, Jerry I.;
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies,
Harper Collins, New York, NY 1994, 1997, 2002.


Flamholtz, Eric C. and Randle, Yvonne;
Growing Pains: Transitioning From an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm, (New and Revised Edition),
Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA 2000.

Gladwell, Malcolm;
Blink the Power of Thinking Without Thinking,
Little Brown, New York, NY 2005
Gladwell, Malcolm;
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,
Little Brown, New York, NY 2000, 2002.
Godin, Seth;
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable,
Penguin Group, New York, NY 2003.
Hindy, Steve; Potter, Tom;
Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 2005.
Kaplan, Robert S., and Norton, David P.;
The Balanced Scorecard,
Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA 1996.
Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renee;
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant,
Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 2005.
Kwestel, Mendy; Preston, Michael; Plaster, Gary;
The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY 1998.
Maister, David;
Managing the Professional Services Firm,
Free Press Paperbacks, New York, NY 1993, 1997.
Menkes, Justin;
Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have,
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 2005.
Mitchell, Jack;
Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results,
Hyperion New York, NY 2003.
Moore, Geoffrey A.;
Crossing the Chasm,
Harper Collins, New York, NY 1991.
Moore, Geoffrey A.;
Inside the Tornado : Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets,
Harper Collins, New York, NY 1995, 2004.
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