Bibliography of Current and Ongoing Texts of Interest

This list of texts reflects ongoing and developing values, means, ideas, and philosophy that we employ within The Boston Consortium and its groups. The texts are also used as catalysts for future action. Our library includes these and other publications, which are available upon request for Consortium participants. We believe that this encourages use of the Consortium as a forum for dialogue and aids the Consortium in becoming part of the fabric of our member institutions. Listed in rough order of importance to our mission.

Core Concepts:

Senge et al. The Dance of Change. New York: Currency Doubleday, 1999.

Senge et al. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York: Currency Doubleday, 1994.

Wenger, Etienne; Richard McDermott; William M. Snyder. Cultivating Communities of Practice. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Comment: Essential text. Work on CoP has been going on for several years; this book makes the case eloquently.

Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science. 2nd Edition. San Francisco,1999. Comment: For left-brainers who think that right-brain thinking is too squishy! Ten years ago was seminal.

Raelin, Joseph A. Work-Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall/Addison Wesley OD Series, 2000. Comment: Raelin is a thought leader in this discipline, which we feel is the underpinning of bottom-up organizational change.

Kotter, John P. and Dan S. Cohen. The Heart of Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Comment: New this year. His quote says it all: "People change what they do less because they are given analysis … than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings."

Gallwey, Timothy. The Inner Game of Work. New York: Random House, 2000.

Lewin, Roger, and Birute Regine. Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work. New York: Texere, 2001.

Schon, Donald. The Reflective Practioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books, 1983.

Argyris, Chris. On Organizational Learning. New York: Blackwell, 1999.

Maslow, Abraham H. Maslow On Management. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1998.

Wilber, Ken. A Theory of Everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2001. Comment: Edgy. For those who need to see life in the broadest context. Important read in light of current events. Personal favorite.

Bohm, David. On Dialogue. New York: Routledge, 1996. Comment: Like Schon, Argyris, and Senge, David Bohm's work is one of the classics of organizational learning and thus collaborative change that is at the essence of what our consortium is about.

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Straus, David. How to Make Collaboration Work. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2002.

Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View. New York: Currency Doubleday, 1991.

Weisbord, Marvin R. Discovering Common Ground. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 1992. Comment: … and it still works!

Marshall, Edward M. Transforming the Way We Work. New York: AMACOM, 1995.

Kleiner, Art. The Age of Heretics. New York: Currrency Doubleday, 1996.

Drath, Wilfred. The Deep Blue Sea: Rethinking the Source of Leadership. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Greenleaf, Robert K. On Becoming a Servant Leader. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Morgan, Gareth. Images of Organization. SanFrancisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Hargrove, Robert. Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

King, Bob and Helmut Schlicksupp. The Idea Edge: Transforming Creative Thought Into Organizational Excellence. Goal-QPC, 1998.

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