Continuous Improvement Through Learning

Many people write management books about how to be better. Better leaders, better thinkers, better communicators, better team builders, better innovators. A lot of these books are on display at airport and other bookstores, waiting for a quick $20 read. Many of these are “candy,” only a select few have actual “nutritional” value for self- and team-improvement.

Here are a few worthwhile books that provide food for thought as well as some recipes. This is a sampler. There are many others as well. This is what we do at Trajectory Group. Start here…

Getting Things Done:

Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t.
John Doerr: Measure What Matters
Strategy that Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
John P. Kotter: Leading Change

Leadership:

The Servant as Leader
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
John C. Maxwell: The 360° Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top and How to Manage Them
The Board Book: An Insider’s Guide for Directors and Trustees
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life

Disaster Preparedness:

Preparing Your ICU for Disaster Response
Are You Prepared?: Hospital Emergency Management Guidebook
John Doerr: Measure What Matters

Innovation:

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare
Reframing Healthcare: A Roadmap for Creating Disruptive Change
Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

– Malcolm Forbes