The Drucker Foundation: The Community of the Future (J-B Drucker Foundation Series) rating: asin: 0787910066 binding: Hardcover list price: £14.50 GBP amazon price: £14.50

This is the third offering in the Drucker Foundation Future series. The previous
titles--The Leader of the Future (1996) and The Organization of the Future
(1997)--have proven to be popular not only in the U.S. but also abroad, where
they have been translated into 12 languages.

The Distributed Mind: Achieving High Performance Through the Collective Intelligence of Knowledge Work Teams author: Kimball Fisher Mareen D. Fisher rating: asin: 0814403670 binding: Hardcover list price: £20.99 GBP amazon price: £20.99

For the first time in history, more employees work with their minds than with their muscles. Their value lies in their mental abilities and their knowledge. Collectively, they are the "mind" of the company -- a mind spread across many individual brains. The authors of this breakthrough book call it "the distributed mind." The distributed mind is a powerful force, for if two heads are better than one, imagine how much better 20 heads are -- if it is possible to manage them all!

author: Kaye rating: asin: 1576753271 binding: Paperback list price: £13.99 GBP amazon price: £11.40 GBP

Because finding the ideal person for every workplace position has become an increasingly difficult task, the retention of top employees has become every manager's concern. Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, by organisational-development specialists Beverly L. Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, proposes that this "race for talent" can be effectively run only by those who adopt programmes and policies that truly support their personnel.

Living Leadership: A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes (Financial Times) author: George Binney Gerhard Wilke Colin Williams rating: asin: 0273693743 binding: Paperback list price: £19.99 GBP amazon price: £17.42 GBP

Who are the really effective leaders, nowadays? What does it take to lead this way? And how do they do it?

Living Leadership is the first leadership book for people, like you, who have to deliver results working with the reality of the challenges in your business, the people in your team and the personality that you bring to work. An insightful and practical lesson in how real leaders behave, day by day, this book delivers a new way of seeing leadership, and new ways of living it.

Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them, Again and Again author: Peter Killing Thomas Malnight Tracey Keys rating: asin: 0131990497 binding: Hardcover list price: £13.64 GBP amazon price: £13.64

Another month, another initiative? Sometimes it can seem that way to busy managers. Each initiative, taken alone, may make sense, but most organisations have too many priorities. Everything is important. The end result, of course is that nothing is really important, and the organisation lacks focus.

author: Marcus Buckingham Curt Coffman rating: asin: 0743219872 binding: Paperback list price: £10.99 GBP amazon price: £10.99

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organisation debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write.

author: James C. Collins Jim Collins rating: asin: 0066620996 binding: Hardcover list price: £13.40 GBP amazon price: £13.40

Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time.