Management Theory


Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win
A New History of Management
What Works: Gender Equality by Design
L’Établi
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
The Principles of Scientific Management
Images of Organization
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Betekeniseconomie: De waarde van verweven leven
Best Team Ever: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
John M. Sheehan
If you get into the habit of doing a thing in the physical, you will do it every time until you break the “Yes—But!” pattern determinedly; and the same is true in the unseen world of our teams thought process as they learn again and again you will get up to what goals are set before you because every time we surrender to the “Yes—But!” we will come to the point until we abandon resolutely and fail in our leadership.
John M. Sheehan

Tom DeMarco
There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative. ...more
Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

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