Professional Development Bibliography (***of exceptional interest)
General Personal Development
***Coleman, Daniel.1998. Working with Emotional Intelligence. New York, Bantam
Books.
***Austin, Linda. 2000. What’s Holding You Back?: 8 Critical Choices for Women’s
Success. New York: Basic Books.
Johnson, Spencer. 1998. Who Moved My Cheese? New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Evans, Gail. 2000. Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About
Success that Women Need to Learn. New York: Broadway Books.
Evans, Gail. 2003. She Wins, You Win: The Most Important Business Rule Every
Business Woman Needs to Know. New York: Gotham Books.
Heim, Pat, and Golant, Susan K. 1992. Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of
Business. New York: Penguin Books.
Lichtenberg, Ronna. 2001. It’s Not Business, It’s Personal: The 9 Relationship
Principles that Power Your Career. New York: Hyperion.
Covey, Stephen R. 1989. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons
in Personal Change. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Tzu, Sun. 1963. The Art of War. Translated by Samuel B. Griffith. London: Oxford
University Press.
Zander, Rosamund Stone, and Zander, Benjamin. 2000. The Art of Possibility:
Transforming Professional and Personal Life. New York: Penguin Books.
Robbins, Stephen P. 2003. The Truth About Managing People…And Nothing But the
Truth. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall UPR.
***Kroeger, Otto, Thuesen, Janet M., and Rutledge, Hile. 2002. Type Talk at Work:
How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job. New York: Dell
Publishing.
Scientific Development
Medawar, P. B. 1979. Advice to a Young Scientist. Basic Books.
Day, Robert A. 1988. How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. Phoenix: Oryx
Press.
National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering/Institute of
Medicine.1997. Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to
Students in Science and Engineering. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
Negotiation/Communication
***Fisher, Roger, Ury, William, and Patton, Bruce of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
1991. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. 2nd Edition. New
York: Penguin Books.
***Ury, William.1993. Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way form Confrontation to
Cooperation. New York: Bantam Books.
Shapiro, Ronald M., Jankowksi, Mark A., and Dale, James. 2001. The Power of Nice:
How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins—Especially You! 2nd Edition. New York: John
Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Scott, Susan. 2002. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life,
One Conversation at a Time. New York: Penguin Group.
Babcock, Linda, and Laschever, Sara. 2003. Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the
Gender Divide. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
***Fisher, Roger, and Brown, Scott. 1988. Getting Together: Building Relationships As
We Negotiate. New York: Penguin Books.
Leadership
***De Bono, Edward. 1999. Six Thinking Hats. Boston: Back Bay Books, Little Brown
Limited.
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. 2002. Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the
Right Thing. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
***Meyerson, Debra M. 2001. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to
Inspire Change at Work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Bellman, Geoffrey M. 1992. Getting Things Done When You Are Not In Charge. San
Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Kouzes, James, M., and Posner, Barry Z. 2002. The Leadership Challenge. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
***Hegelson, Sally. 1995. The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership. New
York: Doubleday.
Hegelson, Sally. 1995. The Web of Inclusion. New York: Doubleday.
Lencioni, Patrick. 1998. The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable. New
York: Jossey-Bass.
Lencioni, Patrick. 2000. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A
Leadership Fable. New York: Jossey-Bass.
Lencioni, Patrick. 2004. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable. New York: JosseyBass.
Harvard Business Review: On Leadership. 1998. Boston: Harvard Business School
Press.
Gender Issues
Bowman, Marjorie, A., Frank, Erica, and Allen, Deborah I. 2002. Women in
Medicine: Career and Life Management. 3rd Edition. New York: Springer.
***Tannen, Deborah. 1994. Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work. New York:
Quill.
Valian, Virginia. 1999. Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. Cambridge,
The MIT Press.
Team Building
***Yamashita, Keith and Spataro, Sandra. 2004. UNSTUCK: A Tool for Yourself, Your
Team, and Your World. New York: Portfolio, Penguin Group, USA.
Senge, Peter M. 1990. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning
Organization. New York: Currency/Doubleday.
Senge, Peter M., Kleiner, Art, Roberts, Charlotte, Ross, Richard B., Smith, Bryan J.
1994. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning
Organization. New York: Currency/Doubleday.
Maxwell, John C. 2001. The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and
Empower Your Team. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.
***Fisher, Roger, and Sharp, Alan. 1988. Getting It Done: How to Lead When You’re
Not in Charge. New York: Harper Perennial.
***Lencoini, Patrick. 2002. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. New
York: Jossey-Bass.
Cohen, Allan R., and Bradford, David L. 1991. Influence Without Authority. New
York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Networking
Roane, Susan. 2000. How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing
in Person and on Online. New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
***Klaus, Peggy. 2003. Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It.
New York: Warner Business Books.
Conflict Management
Folger, Joseph P., Poole, Marshall Scott, and Stutman, Randall K. 2001. Working
Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations. 4th
Edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman Press.
***Heim, Pat, Murphy, Susan, and Golant, Susan L. 2001. In the Company of Women:
Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances. New York: Jeremy
Tarcher/Putnam.
Finance
***Bodnar, Janet. 2003: The Woman’s Guide to Financial Security at Every Stage of
Life. Washington DC: Kiplinger Books.