The Foundational Books

I had promised a list of the books that appeared in my webinar, “The Foundational Books.”

In an attempt to be non-discriminatory (or at least, not overly biased) I’ve listed them in order of date first published (some are still in print, and I read some in later editions, but this gives an overall understanding of the arc of their development.

• Getting To Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury (1981)
• Normal Accidents – Charles Perrow (1984)
• The Different Drum: Community Making & Peace – M. Scott Peck (1987)
• Flawless Consulting – Peter Block (1987)
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey (1989)
• The Path of Least Resistance – Robert Fritz (1989)
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)
• The Shaping of Social Organization – Tom Burns & Helena Flam (1990)
• The Art of the Long View – Peter Schwartz (1991)
• The Wisdom of Teams – Jon Katzenbach & Douglas Smith (1993)
• The Mindmap Book – Tony Buzan (1993)
• A Primer on Decision Making – James March (1994)
• The Anatomy of Persuasion – Norbert Aubuchon (1997)
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball – Gordon MacKenzie (1998)
• Creating a Thinking Organization – Rikki Hunt & Tony Buzan (1999)
• The Clockwork Muse – Eviatar Zerubavel (1999)
• Getting Things Done – David Allen (2002)
• Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds (2007)
• Managing the Unexpected – Karl Weick & Kathleen Sutcliffe (2007)
• The Illusion of Leadership – Piers Ibbitson (2008)
• Start With Why – Simon Sinek (2011)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (2013)
• Simple Rules – Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt (2015)
• Me, Myself and Us – Brian Little (2015)
• Leadership B.S. – Jeffrey Pfeffer (2015)
• Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader – Herminia Ibarra (2015)