Appendix: Recommended Reading and Online Resources for Middle Managers

Recommended Reading

Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead, by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins. Berrett Koehler.

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Jossey-Bass.

Circle of Innovation, by Tom Peters. Alfred A. Knopf.

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Lessons in Mastering Change, by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman. HarperInformation.

Critical Chain, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. North River Press.

Deming and Goldratt: The Theory of Constraints and the System of Profound Knowledge, by Domenico Lepore and Oded Cohen. North River Press.

Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, by Michael Dell with ...

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