Reading List

If you want to learn more about Change Management, here are a few books I recommend. This is not a comprehensive list, but these are some good ones.

Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness

Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness

by Gregory J. Skulmoski, Chris Walker

Addresses the demand to provide cybersecurity training aligned with the normal flow of IT project delivery and technology operations.

Reshuffle

Reshuffle: Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy

by Sangeet Paul Choudary

Winner of the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award. An exploration of how AI is fundamentally reshaping the knowledge economy and what it means for the future of work.

Nine Lies About Work

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. These may sound like basic truths, but actually, they're lies.

Time to Think

Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

by Nancy Kline

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. Nancy Kline describes how we can achieve this.

Smooth Scaling

Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization

by Rob Bier

Your indispensable guide to building a scalable, high-performing organization. Insights, frameworks, and tools to create a company built to last.

Punished by Rewards

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

Punished by Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss about the unexpected side effects of rewards.

Radical Candor

Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition

by Kim Scott

The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor, you can be kind and clear at the same time.

Tiny Habits

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

by BJ Fogg

Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it's losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring work/life balance - the secret is to start small.

Changing on the Job

Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World

by Jennifer Garvey Berger

Jennifer Garvey Berger offers a set of building blocks to help cultivate an agile workforce while improving performance in a complex world.

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values

by Marshall Rosenberg PhD

On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths.

The Essentials of Theory U

The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications

by C. Otto Scharmer

A concise guide to the key concepts and applications of Theory U, showing how to open our minds, hearts, and wills to create the future.

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide

by Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein

The father of corporate culture, Edgar Schein, shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of the organization.

Communicate with Mastery

Communicate with Mastery: Speak With Conviction and Write for Impact

by JD Schramm

Provides readers with a rich treasure trove of frameworks and tools for leadership communication as developed and taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

The Social Psychology of Change Management

The Social Psychology of Change Management

by Steven ten Have, John Rijsman, Wouter ten Have, Joris Westhof

Offers an evidence-based perspective on social and organizational beings, bridging the gap between the psychological and the structural/strategic aspects of change.

Organizational Culture and Leadership

Organizational Culture and Leadership, 5th Edition

by Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein

The classic reference on culture and leadership, this book demonstrates that culture and leadership are two sides of the same coin.

What Great Salespeople Do

What Great Salespeople Do: The Science of Selling Through Emotional Connection and the Power of Story

by Michael T. Bosworth, Ben Zoldan

Focuses on the science of selling through emotional connection and the power of story to build trust and influence buyers.