Whether you’re looking to scope out your next book to read or you’re looking to get a summary so you don’t have to read the book, we’ve got the book reviews for you. In addition to reviewing books on change, we’ve read exhaustively from marketing, psychology, neurology, leadership, management, and business. It’s part of what we pulled together in the Confident Change Management course. It’s one place where you can learn what you need to be confident in your change management project. Each of the links below leads to a book review which not only summarizes the work but also relates it to other similar works.
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- Content, Knowledge, and Learning
- Information Architecture
- The Accidental Taxonomist
- Ambient Findability
- The Elements of User Experience
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload – Facebook Friends
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload – Information Overload
- Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
- Knowledge Management
- Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts
- KNOWledge SUCCESSion
- Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce
- The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business
- Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge, and Organisational Effectiveness
- Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
- Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
- Learning
- The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them
- The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
- The Art of Explanation
- The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
- Efficiency in Learning
- Extraordinary Minds
- How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
- Job Aids and Performance Support
- Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation
- Information Architecture
- Creativity and Innovation
- The Art of Innovation
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
- Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
- Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Innovation
- Creativity, Inc.
- Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
- Diffusion of Innovations
- The Innovator’s DNA
- The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
- Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius
- Healthcare
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
- The Checklist Manifesto
- Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
- Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—and Why We’re Usually Wrong
- No Time to Teach: The Essence of Patient and Family Education for Health Care Providers
- Individual Change
- Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships
- Boundaries: When to say YES, and How to Say NO to Take Control of Your Life
- Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
- Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
- Change or Die
- Changes that Heal: How to Understand Your Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
- Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
- Compelled to Control: Recovering Intimacy in Broken Relationships
- A Dynamic Theory of Personality (Selected Papers of Kurt Lewin)
- Family
- Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
- The Available Parent: Expert Advice for Raising Successful, Resilient, and Connected Teens and Tweens
- Divorce: Causes and Consequences
- Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
- The Four Loves
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Intimacy Anorexia: The Hidden Addiction in Your Marriage
- Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness
- Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray
- The New Peoplemaking
- No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do – Candidates and Effects
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do – The Basics
- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
- Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
- Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood
- The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
- Saving Our Sons: A New Path for Raising Healthy and Resilient Boys
- The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
- The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
- A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
- The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence
- No Bad Parts
- The ONE Thing
- Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Principles of Topological Psychology
- The Psychology of Hope: You Can Get Here from There
- Raise Your Line: Success Is a Higher Line Mentality
- Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
- The Rise of Superman
- Rising Strong (Part 1)
- Rising Strong (Part 2)
- The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
- The Satir Model
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity
- Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts – Becoming the Person You Want to Be
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- Management and Leadership
- Collaboration
- Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
- Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
- Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently
- Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
- Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
- Communication
- Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
- Crucial Conversations
- Dialogue Mapping: Building a Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems
- Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together – Defensive Routines
- Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together – Dialogue Together
- Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together – The Inner Game of Dialogue
- The Ethnographic Interview
- Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
- Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
- The Long Interview: Qualitative Research Methods
- Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic
- On Dialogue
- Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell
- Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
- Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement
- Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
- Conflict
- Conflict Resolved?: A Critical Assessment of Conflict Resolution
- De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance
- Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job
- Solve Employee Problems Before They Start: Resolving Conflict in the Real World
- Leadership
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- Emotional Intelligence
- Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World
- Joy, Inc.
- Leadership
- Leadership and Self-Deception
- Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
- The Leadership Machine
- The Leadership of Organizational Change
- Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
- On Becoming a Leader
- One Minute to Midnight
- Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
- Quiet Leadership
- Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders
- Servant Leadership
- The Titleless Leader: How to Get Things Done When You’re Not in Charge
- The Wisdom of Walt: Leadership Lessons from the Happiest Place on Earth
- Management
- The Four Disciplines of Execution
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t
- The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
- Human Capital
- Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas into Great Results
- Management and the Worker
- No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- Seeing David in the Stone
- Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management: Special 100th Birthday Edition
- Who: The “A” Method for Hiring
- Work Redesign
- Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life
- Measurement and Prediction
- Structure
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
- The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices
- The Heretic’s Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity
- Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture and Organizational Design
- Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
- The Theory of the Growth of the Firm
- Collaboration
- Organizational Change
- Change Better: Survive – and Thrive – During Change at Work and Throughout Life
- The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
- Change Intelligence: Using the Power of CQ to Lead Change That Sticks
- Change Management: The Essentials
- The Change Masters
- The Change Monster: The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
- Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution
- Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results
- Coachbook: A Guide to Organizational Coaching Strategies and Practices
- Conversations of Change: A Guide to Implementing Workplace Change
- The Culture Puzzle: Harnessing the Forces That Drive Your Organization’s Success
- The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of Knowledge
- An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
- Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science
- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
- The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
- Focused, Fast, and Flexible: Creating Agility Advantage in a VUCA World
- The Heart of Change
- How to Be a Change Superhero: The Business Toolkit to Help You to ‘Do’ Change Better
- The Human Side of Change: A Practical Guide to Organization Redesign
- Images of Organization
- Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
- Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization
- Leading Change
- Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and Tyranny of Custom
- Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy
- Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work
- Made to Stick
- Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail
- Models
- Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
- Change Management: The People Side of Change
- Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World
- Lean Change Management: Innovative Practices for Managing Organizational Change
- Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools, and Techniques of Organizational Change
- Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Organization Change: Theory and Practice
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- READY, Set, Change!: Simplify and Accelerate Organizational Change
- Real Time Strategic Change
- Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within
- Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
- Reimagine Change: Escape Change Fatigue, Build Resilience, and Awaken Your Creative Brilliance
- Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
- The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management: Tools for Managing Process and People
- Psychology, Neurology, and Philosophy
- The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
- 99 Ways to Influence Change
- Addiction
- Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
- Assessment Models
- The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
- The Normal Personality
- Personality Types: Using Enneagram for Self-Discovery
- Strengths Finder 2.0
- The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
- Who Am I?
- Biases
- The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
- How We Know What Isn’t So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
- The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
- Bowling Alone
- Childhood and Society
- The Dalai Lama’s Big Book of Happiness: How to Live in Freedom, Compassion, and Love
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transform the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- Depression
- The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
- Emotion and Adaptation
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
- The Grief Recovery Handbook
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- The Heart and Soul of Change: Delivering What Works in Therapy
- The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
- I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough”
- Influence and Motivation
- Blink
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
- Burn-out: The High Cost of High Achievement
- Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
- The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind
- The Challenger Sale
- Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds
- Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment
- Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It
- Drive
- Duct Tape Marketing
- Fascinate
- Got Your Attention?
- Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
- The Hidden Persuaders
- Ignite: Beat Burnout and Rekindle your Inner Fire
- Influence: Science and Practice
- Influence Without Authority
- Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
- The Joy of Burnout: How the End of the World Can Be a New Beginning
- Launch: An Internet Millionaire’s Secret Formula to Sell Almost Anything Online, Build a Business You Love, and Live the Life Of Your Dreams
- Launch!: The Critical 90 Days from Idea to Market
- Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business
- The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR
- Newsjacking: How to Inject your Ideas into a Breaking News Story and Generate Tons of Media Coverage
- Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
- Selling to VITO: The Very Important Top Officer
- Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and Science of Changing Minds
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
- Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
- The Marshmallow Test: Why Self Control Is the Engine of Success
- Mindreading
- Morality and Ethics
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – The Basics
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – The Implications
- The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
- A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World
- How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
- Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – Normal Evil
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – Prison Construction
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – The Devil Made Me Do It
- Moral Disengagement: How Good People Can Do Harm and Live with Themselves – The Cases
- Moral Disengagement: How Good People Can Do Harm and Live with Themselves – The Mechanisms
- Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
- Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- Nonverbal Messages: Cracking the Code: My Life’s Pursuit
- On Death and Dying
- Philosophy
- Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
- The Anatomy of Peace
- Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
- Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
- Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- The Last Lecture
- Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
- Theory U Revisited
- Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
- A Way of Being
- Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual
- The Power of the Other
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- Religion
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t
- Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
- The Secret Lives of Adults: Your Seven Key Relationships – and how to make them work
- Skills
- Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Find Your Courage: 12 Acts for Becoming Fearless at Work and In Life
- Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
- Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill
- Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
- How to Be an Adult in Relationships
- Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
- The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles
- Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
- Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- Stumbling on Happiness
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
- Suicide
- After Suicide
- Assessment and Prediction of Suicide
- Bruised and Wounded
- Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology
- Critical Suicidology
- Definition of Suicide
- The End of Hope
- A Handbook for the Study of Suicide
- Man Against Himself
- Myths about Suicide
- The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior
- Pathways to Suicide
- Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
- Review of Suicidology, 2000
- The Savage God
- Social Forces in Urban Suicide
- Suicide and Its Aftermath
- Suicide: Guidelines for Assessment, Management, and Treatment
- Suicide: Inside and Out
- Suicide: Understanding and Responding
- The Suicidal Mind
- Theory of Suicide
- Turning Points: An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind
- When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It
- Why People Die by Suicide
- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
- Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
- The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth
- Trust
- Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships and Life
- The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
- Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace
- Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
- Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma
- Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys in Work and Life
- Trustology: The Art and Science of Leading High-Trust Teams
- The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to Build a Successful Life
- Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
- White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts
- Why We Do What We Do
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – The Causes and Cures for Stress
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – The Physical Impact of Stress
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – The Psychology and Neurology of Stress
- Societal Change
- After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s
- America’s Generations: In the Workplace, Marketplace and Living Room
- Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
- Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America
- The Coddling of the American Mind
- Systems
- Analyzing the Social Web
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Outliers
- The Paradox of Choice
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- The Rise of the Creative Class: Revisited
- Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- The Wisdom of Crowds