AlignConsulting's Favorite Reads
Here are some of our favorite articles and books on change management, organizations, business strategy, social media and knowledge management. Come back frequently to read -- and share your favorite reads!
- Laurence Prusak and Al Jacobson,“The Cost of Knowledge,” Harvard Business Review, November 2006, Reprint F0611H.
- Nancy Dixon, Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000
- Michael Wilkinson, The Secrets of Facilitation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004
- Karl Weick, Organizations as Cognitive Maps: Charting Ways to Success and Failure,” Karl Weick and Michel G. Bougon. Chapter 4 in The Thinking Organization, Sims, and Gioia, Jossey Bass
- Chris Argyris, “Good Communication That Blocks Meaning.” Harvard Business Review, July 2001, 1994.Prod. #:94401-PDF-ENG
- Olivia Parr-Rud. Business Intelligence Success Factors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
- Scott E. Page. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. New York: Princeton University Press, 2007
- Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee. Boston, MA 2000, p. 212. Copyright © 2000 by the Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation;
- Nancy Dixon, “If the Army Can Put Its Doctrine Up on a Wiki, You’ve Got No Excuse.” September 23, 2009. www.nancydixonblog.com/2009/09/if-the-army-can-put-its-doctrine-up-on-a-wiki-youve-got-no-excuse.html.
- Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some ideas Survive and Others Die New York: Random House, 2007.
- William Isaacs, Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1999 .
- Chris Argyris and Donald Schön. Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978. See the Society for Organizational Learning’s history at www.solonline.org/aboutsol/history/
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline. New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1990.
- Joseph D. Novak and Alberto J. Cañas, “The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them.” Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 2006.
- David Kantor and N. Heaton Lonstein, “Reframing Team Relationships: How the Principles of ‘Structural Dynamics’ Can Help Teams Come to Terms with Their Dark Side.” In Peter Senge, et al. (Eds.), The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
- David Kantor, Reading the Room, David Kantor, Jossey-Bass, forthcoming, 2012.
- Rick Ross and Charlotte Roberts, in Senge et al, Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York, Doubleday, 1999.
- History of IBM Lotus Notes www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory/
- Wanda J. Orlikowski and Debra Hoffman, “An Improvisational Model for Change Management: The Case of Groupware Technologies.” MIT Sloan Management Review January 15, 1997. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/1997/winter/3821/an-improvisational-model-for-change-management-the-case-of-groupware-technologies/2/
- Andrew McAfee, Enterprise 2.0 Boston, MA 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation.
- Diane Piktialis and Kent A. Greenes, “Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today’s Multigenerational Workplace.” Conference Board research report, 2008, R-1428–08-RR.
- Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
- Robert A. Neiman, Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal on Time and on Budget New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage. New York: The Free Press, 1985
- Larry Todd Wilson, 2008, www.KnowledgeHarvesting.com.