In the Confident Change Management course, we referred to over 100 book resources.  Below are a listing of the books we referred to in the course that have public book reviews. 

  1. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
  2. The Accidental Taxonomist
  3. The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
  4. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
  5. Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
  6. Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
  7. Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships
  8. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  9. Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life
  10. Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
  11. Change or Die
  12. Coachbook: A Guide to Organizational Coaching Strategies & Practices
  13. Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
  14. Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
  15. The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird
  16. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
  17. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
  18. Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts
  19. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
  20. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
  21. De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
  22. Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It
  23. Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems
  24. Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together
  25. Diffusion of Innovations
  26. Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load
  27. Emotion and Adaptation
  28. The Ethnographic Interview
  29. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Departmental Organization
  30. The Evolution of Cooperation
  31. Extinguish Burnout: A Practical Guide to Prevention and Recovery
  32. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
  33. Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
  34. Find Your Courage: 12 Acts for Becoming Fearless at Work and in Life
  35. Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience
  36. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  37. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t
  38. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
  39. Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
  40. The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
  41. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
  42. The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organization
  43. The Heretic’s Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity
  44. Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World
  45. The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
  46. Hostage at the Table
  47. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
  48. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
  49. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
  50. How We Know What Isn’t So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
  51. Ignite: Beat Burnout and Rekindle your Inner Fire
  52. Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
  53. Influence: Science and Practice, 5e
  54. Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
  55. Joy, Inc.
  56. Leading Change
  57. Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce
  58. Made to Stick: Why some Ideas Survive and Others Die
  59. Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic
  60. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  61. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Actions
  62. Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
  63. The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business
  64. The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
  65. The Normal Personality: A New Way of Thinking About People
  66. On Death and Dying
  67. Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge, and Organisational Effectiveness
  68. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
  69. Outliers: The Story of Success
  70. The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
  71. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
  72. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
  73. Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
  74. Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
  75. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
  76. Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
  77. Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job
  78. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
  79. The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
  80. The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited: Revised and Expanded
  81. The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
  82. Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
  83. Selling to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer): Get to the top. Get to the Point. Get to the Sale
  84. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness
  85. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail- but Some Don’t
  86. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
  87. Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds
  88. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
  89. Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
  90. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
  91. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  92. Thinking, Fast and Slow
  93. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  94. Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace
  95. Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
  96. The Tyranny of Metrics
  97. A Way of Being
  98. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
  99. Who Am I?: 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities
  100. Why We Do What We Do
  101. Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence