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<br /> j <br /> Additional Books on Management and Change <br /> 1. The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization -Gifford <br /> and Elizabeth Pinchot <br /> This book shows how to replace bureaucracy with fundamentally different <br /> principles for organizing and coordinating. work. The authors describe "intelligent <br /> organizations" that make full use of the intelligence of all employees instead of <br /> relying only on those at the top of the chain of command. 399 pages <br /> 2. Intrapreneuring -Gifford Pinchot III <br /> This book tackles how to foster a climate of innovation within conventional <br /> bureaucracies. It offers a concrete program for putting innovation back into <br /> American business while keeping your best people. 368 pages <br /> 3. Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning, and <br /> Community -Marvin Weisbord <br /> The author integrates the histories, theories, and methods of leading <br /> management innovators with cases from his own experience as a manager and <br /> consultant to present new guidelines for productive workplaces. He has a strong bias <br /> toward community as a motivator for workplace cooperation. 405 pages <br /> _4. Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace - Sarita <br /> Chawla and John Renesch <br /> This book contains essays by 32 of the most respected practitioners and <br /> scholars on the topic of learning organizations. The essays are presented in four <br /> areas: 1) Guiding ideas, 2) Theories, methods, processes, 3) Infrastructure, and 4) <br /> Arenas of practice. 547 pages <br /> 5. Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government -David. <br /> Osborne and Peter Plastrik <br /> The authors create a road map, replete with examples and stories, by <br /> which reinventors and political thinkers of all persuasions can actually make <br /> reinvention work. They lay out the "Five Cs" for successfully reinventing public <br /> organizations: Core strategy, Consequences Strategy, Customer Strategy, Control <br /> strategy, and Culture strategy. 397 pages <br /> 6. Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution -Tom Peters <br /> According to Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, excellence must <br /> go hand in hand with a new imperative: flexibility. He believes that everywhere <br /> managers confront accelerated change and constant technological innovation which <br /> creates a need for organizations to be more adaptive. 561 pages <br /> 5 <br /> <br />