Suggested Reading for

Bentley Managers
Type Title Author(s) Date Comment
Book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Covey, 1988 Self-help classic where principles and
People - A classic self-help Stephen character count.
book beyond just career,
available in multiple formats in
Bentley and all libraries.
Book Becoming a Manager: Mastery Hill, Linda 1992 Written especially for new managers, this is a
of a New Identity smart but straightforward guide that addresses
many of the challenges associated with being
a manager.
Article Becoming the Boss (Harvard Hill, Linda 2007 What's it's like when an individual contributor is
Business Review) suddenly in a position to manage their former
peers.
Article Courage as a Skill (HBR) Reardon, 2007 If you view yourself as risk adverse, this article
Kathleen might be helpful.
Book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Patterson, Practical lessons on a touch topic.
Talking When Stakes Are High Kerry, et al
Book Emotional Intelligence Goleman, 1995 Goleman has developed the "secret sauce"
Daniel competencies for effective management: self-
awareness, self-regulation, motivation,
empathy and social skills.
Book First, Break All the Rules Buckingham, 1999 What makes some leaders great--based on
Marcus and Strengths. You could save time by reading the
Coffman, Curt Soundview Executive Summary of this book.
Book Five Habits of Dysfunctional Lencioni,
Team Patrick
Article Hard Work of Being a Soft Peace, 2001 The message of this classic HBR article is, be
Manager William H. tough on decisions, easy on people. Peace
says it's ok to be vulnerable.
Book HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Harvard 2011 From the HBR publisher series, this is an
Managing People Business efficient way to dip into some of the landmark
Review articles by noted authors such as Goleman,
Buckingham, Katzenbach, and Argyris.
Article How to Choose a Leadership Tannenbaum, 1958, Classic HBR article which presents the
Pattern (HBR) Robert and 1973 situational style choices a manager can make,
Schmidt, from authoritarian to democratic. A must read
Warren for recovering micro-managers.
Book How to Win Friends and Carnegie, 1936 Written as self-help with salespeople in mind,
Influence People Dale this can also be thought of as a first generation
book on emotional intelligence.
Article Leadership is a Conversation: Groysberg, 2012 Handling the flow of information in an
How to Improve Employee Boris and increasingly more dynamic organizational
Engagement and Alignment in Slind, Michael environment. Listening, dialogue, trust...
Today's Flatter, More
Networked Organization
Book Leading Change Kotter, John 1996
Book Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Harvard 2004 This highly readable guide includes 16 chapter
Managers Need to Succeed Business covering management topics from goal setting
Essentials to coaching to budgeting.

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Book Managing at the Speed of
Change
Book Managing Transitions: Making
the Most of Change
Article Managing Yourself (HBR)
Book On Becoming a Leader
Book On Managing People
Book Shackleton's Way: Leadership
Lessons from the Great
Antarctic Explorer
Book Stepping Up to Supervisor, Rev. Haynes,
Ed.
Book The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook:
Strategies and Tools for
Building a Learning
Organization
Article The Human Side of
Management (Harvard
Business Review)
Book The Leadership Challenge: How
to Keep Getting Extraordinary
Things Done in Organizations
Book The One-Minute Manager
Article The Servant as Leader
Article What Leaders Really Do (HBR)
Article What Makes a Leader?
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Conner, Darryl 1992 The timing of Conner's book, just when things
R. in the workplace got faster, made this an
instant--and lasting--best seller.
Bridges, Follow-up to Transitions: Making Sense of
William Life's Changes, the 1980 classic work on the
psychological stages individuals go through
during times of significant change.
Drucker, Peter 2005 "Do not try to change yourself--you are unlikely
to succeed. Work to improve the way you
perform." Good advice from a master.
Bennis, 1989 The difference between leading and
Warren managing.
HBR's 10 2011 All the best are included in these 10 definitive
Must Reads articles, including Herzberg, Kotter, Argyris,
Series and Buckingham among others--great little
collection
Morrell, 2002 Valuable lessons in leadership (e.g., keep your
Margot and naysayers close), packaged in an adventure
Capparell, story. Shackleton knew how to lead when the
Stephanie stakes were very high.
1991 Published by Crisp Publications, this little
Marion guide could be read over a weekend, and
includes the gamut of topics from stress to
time management, conflict, managing
performance, and building a team, among
others.
Senge, Peter 1994 Based on The Fifth Discipline management
et. Al book, this guide reads like a cookbook with
recipes such as "Seven Steps for Breaking
through Organizational Gridlock," and "Loyalty
to the Truth." This Fieldbook can be heavy
going, but includes easily digestible bits.
Teal, Thomas 1996 Great management is all about integrity and
character.
Kouzes, Jim 1995 Anything written by the team of Kouzes and
and Posner, Posner is bound to be useful.
Barry
Blanchard, 1982 "The short book that has big results." You
Ken and could read this during commercial breaks
Johnson, during a ball game, and still learn a thing or
Spencer two.
Greenleaf, 1970 One could argue that Greenleaf's article turned
Robert K. power on its head, but many of the
characteristics he espoused, such as
awareness, listening, empathy, empowering
others have now become standard
management fare.
Kotter, John 2001 Kotter explains the difference between leaders
and managers (hint: one promotes stability
while the other promotes change).
Goleman, 1998 Shorted version of EI
Daniel