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If you have articles or books to suggest for this page, email us. Some articles and books we have found to be especially useful are:

Blue Ocean Strategy. This book, written by two INSEAD business school professors, offers great insights into ways to rethink strategy. Their notion of blue (desireable) and red (highly competitive) oceans is useful. They offer some real life examples of how companies have rethought the environment, from the customers' perspectives, in order to create more profitable businesses. The illustration of Cirque du Soleil is fascinating.

Alexander The Great's Art of Strategy. Interested in history and strategy? This book is a good choice. Well written with more of a focus on history than strategy. Alexander was a fascinating leader.

High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders. If developing new leaders in your company is on the agenda (and it better be), read this book. It has great practical suggestions on making a development program work.

What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success. This book presents a multi-year study on why some companies are more profitable than others. Read it now!

First, Break All the Rules. The authors present the results of a massive research study conducted by the Gallup Organization. The study identified what successful managers do that make a difference to financial performance. Take the time to read it.

Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies Master the Skills of Radical Change. This book comes highly recommended from an executive who has been in the middle of changing companies for many years. Well worth the time to read it.

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Larry Bossidy, a well known CEO has written a great book in collaboration with Ram Charan and Charles Burck. It offers some practical advice about that important question of how to get things done in an organization.

The Heart of Change. John Kotter has written a book with very practical ideas on how to create effective change. It is well-written, short and to-the-point. A very good read.

The Tipping Point. The author, Malcolm Gladwell, is a journalist, having worked for the Washington Post and the New Yorker. If you are interested in how to be a more effective marketer, this book is worth reading.

Good to Great, Jim Collins, Harper Business, 2001. Collins is co-author of another great book on business, Built to Last. In this book, he presents new research on how companies with good financial performance have moved to having great financial performance. Well written and insightful.

Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence, Chris Zook (with James Allen), Harvard Business School Press, 2001. The authors present insightful research findings about just how tough it is to achieve sustained and profitable growth. Also good insights into how a strategy of focusing on your core business pays off. Well worth the time.

Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Robert E. Quinn, Jossey-Bass, 1996. CEOs may wish to read pages 148 through 151 especially to identify useful (and not so useful) leadership behaviors.