EPI Resource Library

*highly recommended

I.  Management
Classics: Old and New

• *Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. The One Minute Manager. (New York: Berkley Publishing, 1981).
• Blanchard, K. & Lorber, R. Putting the One Minute Manager to Work. (New York: William Morrow, 1985).
• Bossidy, L. & Charan, R. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. (New York: Crown Business, 2002).
• Collins, J. Good to Great. (New York: Harper-Collins, 2001).
• Collins, J. and Porras, J. Built to Last - Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. (New York: Harper Collins, 2002).
• Daniels, A. Performance Management. (Tucker, GA: Performance Management Publications, 1989).
• Drucker, P. The Essential Drucker. (New York: Harper-Collins, 2001).
• *Drucker, P. The Effective Executive. (New York: Harper & Row, 1966).
• *Kepner, C. and Tregoe, B. The New Rational Manager. (Princeton: Princeton Research Press, 1981).
• Maier,N. Problem-Solving Discussions and Conferences, Leadership Methods and Skills. (New York: McGraw-Hill. 1963).
• *McGlashan, R. & Singleton, T. Strategic Management. (Columbus: Merrill Publishing, 1987).
• Neiman, R. Execution Plain and Simple, Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal on Time and on Budget. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).
• Puris, M. Comeback - How Seven Staight Shooting CEO's Turned Around Troubled Companies. (New York: Times Books, 1999).
• Senge, P. The Fifth Discipline - The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. (New York: Doubleday, 1990).

Talent Management

• Araoz, C. Great People Decisions. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
• Buckingham, M. & Coffman, C. First, Break All the Rules. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).
• *Buckingham, M. & Clifton, D. Now Discover Your Strengths. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
• Davis, B. Successful Manager's Handbook; Development Suggestions for Today's Managers. (Personnel Decisions International, 1996).
• Fear, R. The Evaluation Interview. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978).
• Hiring Smart for Competitive Advantage. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006).
• Lombardo, M. and Eichinger, R. For Your Improvement, A Development and Coaching Guide. (Minneapolis: Lominger Limited, Inc., 1996).
• Maxwell, John C. Mentoring 101. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008)
• Michaels, E. Handfield-Jones, H., Axelrod, B. The War for Talent. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001).
• Smart, B. Top Grading. (Paramus: Prentice Hall, 1999).

Sales / Marketing / Consulting

• Beckwith, H. Selling the Invisible, A Field Guide to Modern Marketing. (New York: Warner Books, 1997).
• Beckwith, H. What Clients Love, A Field Guide to Growing Your Business. (New York: Warner Books, 2003).
• Beckwith, H. The Invisible Touch, The Four Keys to Modern Marketing. (New York: Warner Books, 2000).
• Johnson, S. The One-Minute Sales Person. (New York: Avon Books, 2002).
• Block, P. Flawless Consulting, A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used. (San Diego: University Associates, 1981).
• Rackham, N. Spin Selling. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988).

II. Leadership / Coaching

• *Abrashoff, M. It's Your Ship. (New York: Warner Books, 2002).
• *Blanchard, K., Zigarmi, P., Zigarmi, D. Leadership and the One Minute Manager. (New York: William Morrow, 1985).
• Fournies, F. Coaching for Improved Performance. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978).
• Gordon, T. Leader Effectiveness Training. (New York: Wyden Books, 1978).
• Hersey, P. & Blanchard, K. Managment of Organizational Behavior - Utilizing Human Resources. (Inglewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982).
• Manske, F. Secrets of Effective Leadership - a Practical Guide to Success. (Columbia, TN: Leadership Education and Development, Inc., 1990).
• Maxwell, J. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998).
• Peterson, D. & Hicks, M. Leader as Coach, Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others. (Minneapolis: Personnel Decisions International, 1996).

Teams

• Blanchard, K. The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams. (New York: William Morrow, 1990).
• Dyer, W. Team Building, Issues and Alternatives. (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1987).
• Katzenback, J. & Smith, D. The Wisdom of Teams, Creating the High-Performance Organization. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993).
• Lencioni, P. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002).

Change

• Bouchard, P. & Pellet, L. Getting Your Shift Together, Making Sense of Organizational Culture and Change (Phoenix: CCI Press, 2000).
• Johnson, S. & Blanchard, K. Who Moved My Cheese? (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998).
• Kotter, J. Leading Change. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996).

People Skills / Relationships

• Beattie, M. Co-Dependent No More. (Center City: Hazelden, 1992).
• *Bolton, R. People Skills. (New York: Prentice Hall, 1979).
• Carnegie, D. How to Win Friends and Influence People. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981).
• Fisher, R & Ury, W. Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. (New York: Penguin Books, 1991).
• Harvard Business Review on Effective Communication. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999).
• Hendrix, H. Getting the Love You Want. (New York: Henry Holt, 1988).
• Hendrix, H. Keeping the Love You Find, A Personal Guide (New York: Pocket Books, 1992).
• Patterson, K. Crucial Conversations. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).
• Stone, D., Patton, B., Heen, S. Difficult Conversations. (New York: Penguin Books, 2000).
• *Smith. M. When I Say No, I Feel Guilty. (New York: Bantam Books, 1975).
• Ury, W. Getting Past No, Negotiating with Difficult People. (New York: Bantam Books, 1991).

Delegation / Time Management

• *Blanchard, K., Oncken, W., Burrows, H. The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey. (New York: William Morrow, 1989).
• Covey, S., Merrill, A., and Merrill, R. First Things First. (New York: Free Press, 1994).
• Lakein, A. How to Control Your Time and Your Life. (New York: Signet, 1989)
• Oncken, W. Managing Management Time, Who's Got the Monkey. (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
• Vetter, G. Find It in 5 Seconds. (Seattle: Hara, 1999).

Small Business

• Blanchard, K , Hutson, D., Willis, E. The One Minute Entrepreneur. (New York: Doubleday, 2008)
• Brown, J. & Carroll, K. How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style. (New York: Business Enterprise Press, 2006).
• Danko, K. From the Other Side of the Bed - A Woman Looks at Life in the Family Business. (Cleveland: The University Press, 1981).
• Danko, L. Inside the Family Business. (Cleveland: The University Press, 1980).
• *Gerber, M. The E-Myth Revisited, Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work And What To Do About It. (New York: Harper-Collins, 2001).
• Paisner, M. Sustaining the Family Business - An Insider's Guide to Managing Across Generations. (Reading: Perseus Books, 1999).

III. Personal Development / Self Management

• Carlson, R. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. (New York: Hyperion, 1996).
• Carlson, R. What About the Big Stuff? (New York: Hyperion, 2002).
• Carnegie, D. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984).
• Covey, S. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).
• Dyer, W. Pulling Your Own Strings. (New York: Harper Collins, 1978).
• Dyer, W. Your Erroneous Zones. (New York: Harper Collins, 1995).
• *Ellis, A & Harper, R. A Guide to Rational Living. (New York: Wilshire, 1975)
• McGraw, P. Life Strategies. (New York: Hyperion, 1999).
• McGraw, P. Self-Matters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
• Parrott, L. 3 Seconds, The Power of Thinking Twice. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007).
• *Peck, S. The Road Less Traveled. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978).
• Rogers, Carl On Becoming a Person. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1961).
• Seligman, M. Authentic Happiness. (New York: Free Press, 2002).
• *Seligman, M. Learned Optimism. (New York: Free Press, 1990).
• Taylor, J. My Stroke of Insight. (New York: Viking, 2006).

IV. ODDS & ENDS

• Amen, D. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998).
• Ariely, D. Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. (New York: Harper-Collins, 2008).
• Cutler, W. Triple Your Reading Speed. ( New York: Prentice Hall, 1993).
• Ellis, C. Winning the Loser's Game, Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).
• Feinberg, M & Tarrant, J. Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. (New York: Fireside, 1995).
• Friedman, T. The World Is Flat. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
• Gladwell, M. Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2005).
• Gladwell, M. The Tipping Point. (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2002).
• Levitt, S. & Dubner, S. Freakonomics. (New York: Harper Collins, 2005).
• *Livingstone, Gordon Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. (New York: Marlowe, 2004).
• O'Kelly, E. Chasing Daylight. (NewYork: McGraw-Hill, 2008).
• Swensen, D. Unconventional Wisdom, A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. (New York: Free Press, 2005).
• Sun-tzu The Art of War. (New York: Fall River Press, 1994).
• Taleb, N. The Black Swan. (New York: Random House, 2007).
• Twelve O'Clock High. (20th Century Fox, 1949).
• Underhill, P. Why We Buy, The Science of Shopping. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).
• Zemke, R. Generations at Work, Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace. (New York: AMACOM, 2000).

V. BIOGRAPHIES

• Cramer, J. Instant Replay, The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Cramer. (New York: Signet, 1969).
• *Eisenhower, D. Crusade in Europe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1948).
• Greenspan, A. The Age of Turbulence, Adventures in a New World. (New York: Penguin Books, 2007).

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