A recent LinkedIn post asked for recommendations for books on change management.I was reminded that a couple of years ago a similar question was asked and I (somewhat laboriously) made a list of all books mentioned. Here it is, with no commentary about the value, as they were all valuable to someone sometime:
Change Management/Leadership Library
Recommendations posted in response to a LinkedIn question “What is the best book you have read on organisational change?
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Title |
Author |
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Philosophies of Organizational Change |
Aaron Smith, Fiona Graetz |
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Solving Tough Problems |
Adam Kahane |
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The Lemming Condition |
Alan Arkin |
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Punished by Rewards |
Alfie Kohn |
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10 Steps to Successful Change Management |
American Society for Training and Development |
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The Change Leader’s Roadmap and Beyond Change Management |
Anderson & Ackerman Anderson |
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Leadership and Self-Deception |
Arbinger Institute |
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Polarity Management |
Barry Johnson |
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The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: How to Transform Your Company |
Bob Willard |
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The Aesthetics of Change |
Bradford Keeney |
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La stratégie du projet lateral (in French) |
Bruno César and Olivier d’Herbémont. |
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Making Sense of Change Management |
Cameron and Green |
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The Psychodynamics of Change |
CCL |
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The Invisible Gorilla |
Chabris and Simons |
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The Empty Raincoat |
Charles Handy |
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Switch |
Chip and Dan Heath |
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Integrated Strategic Change: How OD Builds Competitive Advantage |
Christopher Worley, David Hitchin and Walter Ross |
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It’s Your Ship – Management Secrets from the Best Damned Ship in the Navy |
Cmdr. (Ret.) Michael Abrashoff |
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The Leader’s Change Handbook |
Conger, Spreitzer and Lawler |
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The Heart of Change Field Guide |
Dan S. Cohen |
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Managing at the Speed of Change |
Daryl Conner |
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Your Brain at Work |
David Rock |
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Terms of Engagement |
Dick Axelrod |
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Spiral Dynamics Integral |
Don Beck |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Doris Goodwin |
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Taking Charge of Change |
Douglas Smith |
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Change is the Rule |
Dr Dutch Holland |
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Red Zone Management |
Dr Dutch Holland |
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EPIC Change |
Dr Tim Clark |
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Green Eggs and Ham |
Dr. Seuss |
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Process Consultation: It’s Role in Organization Development |
Ed Schein |
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Process Consultation Revised: Building the Helping Relationship |
Ed Schein |
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Helping: How To Offer, Give, and Receive Help |
Ed Schein |
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The Planning of Change |
ed Warren G. Bennis, Kenneth D. Benne, Robert Chin |
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A Failure of Nerve |
Edwin Friedman |
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Complexity, Management and the Dynamics of Change: Challenges for Practice |
Elizabeth McMillan |
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Organization Development |
French & Bell |
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Ship of Gold |
Gary Kinde |
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The Five Books of Moses |
God? |
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball |
Gordon MacKenzie |
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Hope is not a Method |
Gordon R Sullivan and Michael V Harper |
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Exploring Corporate Change |
Hope-Hailey & Balogun |
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Harvard Business Review in Change |
ISBN 0-87584-884-2 |
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Designing Dynamic Organizations: A hands-on field guide for leaders at all levels |
Jay Galbraith and Amy Kates |
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The Change Monster |
Jeannie Duck |
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Hard Facts Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense |
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton |
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Leading Change |
John Kotter |
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My Iceberg is Melting |
John Kotter |
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The Heart of Change |
John Kotter |
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A Sense of Urgency |
John Kotter |
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A Force for Change |
John P. Kotter |
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Productive Workplaces |
Jon and Gabriel |
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Leading outside the lines |
Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan |
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Synchronicity |
Joseph Jaworski |
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Transformation Thinking |
Joyce Wycoff |
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Managing the Unexpected |
Karl Weick |
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The Secret Handshake |
Kathleen Kelley Reardon |
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Who Killed Change |
Ken Blanchard |
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Influencer |
Kerry Patterson, et al. |
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Organizations on the Couch |
Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. |
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The Leadership Challenge |
Kotter and Heskett |
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Dao De Jing (or Tao Te Chung, or however you want to transliterate it) |
Lao Tzu |
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Viral Change |
Leandro Herraro |
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Viral Change |
Leandro Herrero |
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? |
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. |
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The Tipping Point |
Malcolm Gladwell |
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First Break all the Rules |
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman |
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Leadership & the New Science |
Margaret Wheatley |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
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Productive Workplaces |
Marvin Weisbord |
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Development as Leadership-led Change – A Report for the Global Leadership Initiative and the World Bank Institute |
Matt Andrews, Harvard Kenny School – John F. Kennedy School of Government |
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Good Business |
Miahly Csikszentmihalyi |
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Moneyball |
Michael Lewis |
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Charging Back up the Hill |
Mitchell L. Marks |
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Discontinuous Change |
Nadler |
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The Challenge of Change in Organizations |
Nancy Barger and Linda K. Kirby |
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U Theory |
Otto Scharmer |
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Changing conversations in Organizations |
Patricia Shaw |
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Becoming a Practitioner-Researcher: A Gestalt Approach to Holistic Inquiry |
Paul Barber |
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The Principles of Organizational Change Management |
Paul C. Wilson |
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Change: Problem Formation and Problem Resolution |
Paul Watzlawick |
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Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity |
Peggy Holman |
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Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change |
Peter B Vaill |
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Change Magic – An Evolutionary Approach to Change Engineering and Organisational Problem Solving |
Peter Freeth |
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The Dance of Change |
Peter Senge |
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The Fifth Discipline |
Peter Senge |
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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook |
Peter Senge |
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Presence |
Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers |
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The Knowing-Doing Gap |
Pfeffer & Sutton |
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Change at Work: A Comprehensive Management Process for Transforming Organizations |
Pieter W. Esterhuysen, Barbara P. Mink, Keith Q. Owen and Oscar G. Mink |
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(Re)Organizing for Resilience |
Ranjay Gulati |
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Confessions of a Radical Industrialist |
Ray. C. Anderson |
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Maverick |
Ricardo Semler |
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More than a Motorcycle |
Rich Teerlink and Lee Ozley |
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Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |
Richard Bach |
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Changing the Essense |
Richard Beckhard and Wendy Pritchard |
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Beyond The Wall Of Resistance: Why 70% of All Changes Still Fail – and What You Can Do About It |
Rick Maurer |
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Building the Bridge as You Walk on it: A Guide for Leading Change |
Robert E. Quinn |
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Path of Least Resistance |
Robert Fritz |
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Path of Least Resistance for Managers |
Robert Fritz |
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Immunity to Change |
Robert Kegan with Lisa Laskow Lahey |
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In Over Our Heads |
Robert Kegan with Lisa Laskow Lahey |
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Deep Change |
Robert Quinn |
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Free Perfect and Now – a CEO’s true story |
Robert Rodin |
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Anticipate. the Architecture of Innovation |
Ron Brown |
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Dynamics of Planned Change |
Ronald Lippitt, et al. |
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Unshackled Leadership |
Scott Hunter |
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Who Ate My Cheese |
Spencer Johnson |
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The Speed of Trust |
Stephen Covey |
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The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century |
Stephen Denning |
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In the Company of Sacred Cows |
Stephen Quesnelle and Geoff Smith |
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It’s Behaviour, Stupid!: What Really Drives the Performance of Your Organisation |
Steve Glowinkowski |
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The Three Laws of Performance |
Steve Zaffron |
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Organizatie Dynamica (in Dutch) |
Thijs Homan |
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In Search of Excellence |
Tom Peters |
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Man’s Search for Meaning |
Viktor Fankl |
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Organization Change |
W W Burke |
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Managing Transitions |
William Bridges |
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