This is a living collection of resources that I refer to in my Human Resources programs including the IME Mini-MBA and in-house Strategic Human Resource Management programs. It includes all the resources I refer to in the workshops and additional background reading organized by subject.
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Videos
Articles
HR Consulting Skills
Confidence: The surprising truth about how much you need - and how to get it
Crucial Conversations, Patterson et al
Death by Meeting, Lencioni
Difficult Conversations, Stone, Patten & Heen
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
How Did That Happen? Connors & Smith
HR Competencies: Mastery at the Intersection of People and Business.
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni
Start With Why, Sinek
The Games People Play, Berne
The Happiness Advantage, Achor
The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni
The Oz Principle, Connors et al
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
The Trusted Advisor, Maister, Green & Galford
The Why of Work, Ulrich & Ulrich
The 11 Laws of Systems Thinking
The Art of CoachingAdaptability & Change
Teaching Smart People to Learn, Argyris
The Culture Map, Meyer
The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge
Competence
Creating a Learning and Development Strategy: The HR Business Partner's Guide to Developing People
Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Kolb, D. A.
For Your Improvement, Korn Ferry
HBR Finding & Keeping the Best People
Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation James D. Kirkpatrick
Learning with Colleagues, de Haan
Personality and the Fate of Organizations, Hogan & Hogan
Talent Economics, Nagpal
TED Susan Colantuono – Business Acumen
The Effective Executive, Drucker
The Effective Manager, Horstman
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It)Consequence
Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals, James E Neal
How Performance Management Is Killing Performance - and What to Do About It: Rethink. Redesign. Reboot M. Tamra Chandler
Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success, Tuckman, Abry and Smith.
Motivation to Work, Herzberg
TED Dan Pink – Motivation
The Relationship Cure, Gottman
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Lencioni
Culture
Kets de Vries, M. F. R. “Decoding the Team Conundrum: The Eight Roles Executives Play,”
Kets de Vries, M.F.R. The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams.
Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
Organizational Culture and Leadership Edgar Schein
Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves, Walker in HBR
Set up to fail Syndrome: How good managers cause great people to fail, Manzoni & Barsoux
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, Lencioni
Superteams: How to Take Your Team to the Top
The Corporate Survival Guide, Edgar Schein
The Discipline of Teams, Katzenbach & Smith in HBR
The Wisdom of Teams, Katzenbach & Smith
Understanding organizations, Charles Handy
X Teams, Ancona, Bresman & Caldwell
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Governance & Organisation Design
Images of organization (Revised ed.). Morgan, G. (2006).
Organizational Diagnosis. Levinson, H.
The Outward Mindset, The Arbinger Institute
The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams
Leadership
Managing the HR Function
Deloitte: 2018 Global Human Capital Trends
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals. Ulrich
The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management SystemBusiness Strategy