Secondhand Consulting & Management Bargain Book Box SP4294

Secondhand Consulting & Management Bargain Book Box SP4294

Seventeen management books for a consultant or someone who hires them: three David Maisters including The Trusted Advisor and True Professionalism, The McKinsey Mind, High Impact Consulting, Argyris’s Flawed Advice, the Deming Management Method, Deming’s Profound Changes, Schonberger, Axelrod and Cohen’s Harnessing Complexity, Womack and Jones’s Lean Thinking, two de Bonos and The Search Conference. Mostly hardback.

1. Building a Chain of Customers — Richard J. Schonberger — Every department is a customer of the one before it: Schonberger’s model for linking design, production and finance into one flow. From the author of World Class Manufacturing.
2. Deming’s Profound Changes — Kenneth T. Delavigne & J. Daniel Robertson — When will the sleeping giant awaken? Deming’s fourteen points applied to American management, and why it resisted. Hardback.
3. The Search Conference — Merrelyn Emery & Ronald E. Purser — A powerful method for planning organisational change and community action: the two-day participative method the Emerys developed in Australia. Epilogue by Fred Emery. Jossey-Bass hardback.
4. Flawed Advice and the Management Trap — Chris Argyris — How managers can know when they’re getting good advice and when they’re not: the Harvard professor who invented double-loop learning on why most consulting is useless. Hardback.
5. The McKinsey Mind — Ethan M. Rasiel & Paul N. Friga — The problem-solving tools and techniques of the world’s top strategic consulting firm, from two ex-McKinseyites. The sequel to The McKinsey Way.
6. True Professionalism — David H. Maister — The courage to care about your people, your clients and your career. Maister’s argument that professionalism is an attitude, not a qualification. Hardback.
7. The Trusted Advisor — David H. Maister, Charles H. Green & Robert M. Galford — The trust equation: credibility plus reliability plus intimacy, divided by self-orientation. The book every professional-services firm hands new partners. Tom Peters calls it brilliant and practical. Hardback.
8. High Impact Consulting — Robert H. Schaffer — How clients and consultants can turn rapid results into long-term gains: Schaffer’s breakthrough-project method against the big-report model. Hardback.
9. First Among Equals — Patrick J. McKenna & David H. Maister — How to manage a group of professionals who don’t think they need managing. The partner-group leader’s handbook.
10. Your Signature Path — Geoffrey M. Bellman — Gaining new perspectives on life and work, from the author of The Consultant’s Calling. Berrett-Koehler hardback.
11. Practice What You Preach — David H. Maister — What managers must do to create a high-achievement culture, with empirical evidence from a worldwide study. Maister’s data book.
12. Harnessing Complexity — Robert Axelrod & Michael D. Cohen — Organisational implications of a scientific frontier: complexity theory for managers, from the political scientist who wrote The Evolution of Cooperation. Hardback.
13. The Deming Management Method — Mary Walton — The complete guide to quality management: the fourteen points, the seven deadly diseases and the red-bead experiment, with Deming’s own foreword. The standard introduction.
14. Serious Creativity — Edward de Bono — Using the power of lateral thinking to create new ideas: de Bono’s most systematic book, with the techniques laid out as tools.
15. Six Thinking Hats — Edward de Bono — White for facts, red for feelings, black for caution, yellow for optimism, green for ideas, blue for process. The meeting method used in boardrooms and primary schools alike. Penguin.
16. Lean Thinking — James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones — Banish waste and create wealth in your corporation: the Toyota production system explained for the West, by the authors of The Machine That Changed the World. Fully revised and updated edition; the book that invented the term.