- The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
By Richard Hunter and George Westerman
Harvard Business Press
A Gartner VP teams with an MIT researcher to offer a roadmap for converting the perception of IT from cost center to value generator.
- The Adventures of An IT Leader
By Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Harvard Business Press
Harvard Business School gurus team with a Cutter consultant to describe a fictional CIO's first year on the job.
- World-Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When Technology Triumphs
By Peter A. High
Jossey-Bass
The consultant uses examples from CIOs and executives to show effective alignment of business and IT strategies.
- Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges
By Andrew McAfee
Harvard Business Press
The Harvard professor continues his groundbreaking work with this C-level study of collaborative technologies.
- IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain
By Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross
Harvard Business Press
MIT experts explain how non-IT executives can harness the power of IT to drive their businesses forward.
- The IT Value Network: From IT Investment to Stakeholder Value
By Tony Read
Wiley
The consultant and former CIO urges closer alignment of IT spending with overall business strategy.
- 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis
By Bill George
Jossey-Bass
The former Medtronic CEO on managing through an economic downturn.
- High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
By Michael Beer
Wiley
The Harvard professor and TruePoint chairman on the elements of organizational success.
- Derailed: Five Lessons Learned From Catastrophic Failures in Leadership
By Tim Irwin
Thomas Nelson
A look at the former CEOs of Home Depot, Lehman Brothers and others, with lessons on how not to follow their examples.
- The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property
By Mark Blaxill and Ralph Eckardt
Portfolio Hardcover
Intellectual property experts tell how to understand your assets and build competitive businesses around them.
- The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age
By Larry Downes
Basic Books
The Stanford Internet law expert explores nine areas where technology is reshaping the way we do business and live our lives.
- Wired for Thought: How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet
By Jeffrey M. Stribel
Harvard Business Press
A brain scientist and entrepreneur examines how the Internet replicated the human brain, and what that means for business in the future.
- The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
By Scott Anthony
Harvard Business Press
The consultant and author on innovation during tough times and building a successful creative strategy.
- Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Successfully Navigated Career Transitions
By Michael Watkins
Harvard Business Press
Guidelines for making various job transitions after promotions, career changes or international moves.
- Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization
By Lawrence Susskind and Hallam Movius
Harvard Business Press
Two Harvard Law School experts argue that negotiating agreements can be a competitive advantage.
- Inspire: Why Customers Come Back
By James Champy
FT Press
The Perot Systems exec offers a new manifesto on how business can build and strengthen customer loyalty.
- Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
By Morten T. Hansen
Harvard Business Press
The Berkeley and INSEAD professor explores the barriers to instilling a collaborative culture, and includes tips for breaking through them.
- Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity
By Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
Harvard Business Press
Two management professors offer a treatise on delivering business growth while mitigating risks.
- Keeping the Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation-And What to Do About It
By Joanne Sujansky and Jan Ferri-Reed
Wiley
Two executive coaches investigate high turnover among Generation Y workers, and look at ways to prevent it.
- Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science
By Charles S. Jacobs
Portfolio
A consultant explains how making decisions emotionally rather than rationally hinders workforce management.
