Rebels at Work

Appendix C. Recommended Rebel Reading

There are so many books that are useful to rebels and that we have found useful. We include here some we’ve found particularly relevant.

Navigating Inside Organizations

Glenda H. Eoyang and Royce J. Holladay, Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).

John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (New York: Basic Books, 2012).

Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide To Surviving with Grace (New York: Viking, 1998).

Roger Martin, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2009).

Conflict and Negotiation

Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (New York: HarperBusiness, 2006).

Herb Cohen, You Can Negotiate Anything (New York: Bantam, 1982).

Sue Annis Hammond and Andrea Mayfield, The Thin Book of Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success (Bend, OR: Thin Book Publishing Co., 2004).

William Ury, Roger Fisher, and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (New York: Penguin, 2011).

Collaborating

Christina Baldwin and Anna Linnea, The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010).

David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change (San ...