Recommended Reading

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Author: Peter M. Senge

To the Desert and Back: The Story of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record

Author: Philip H. Mirvis, Karen Ayas, and George Roth

Change the World : How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results

Author: Robert E. Quinn

Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 2nd Edition

Author: David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney and Jacqueline Stavros

Leading Change

Author: John Kotter

Leading at the Edge of Chaos

Author: Daryl Connor

Handbook of Transformative Cooperation: New Designs and Dynamics

Author: Sandy Piderit, Ronald Fry, and David Cooperrider

Future Search

Author: Marvin Ross Weisbordand Sandra Janoff

Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science

Author: Edwin E. Olson, Glenda H. Eoyang, Richard Beckhard, and Peter Vaill

Experience AI: A Practitioner's Guide to Integrating Appreciative Inquiry with Experiential Learning

Author: James E. Willis and Miriam W. Ricketts

Liberating the Corporate Soul : Building a Visionary Organization

Author: Richard Barrett

Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation

Author: David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walton, and Associates

Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change

Author: Peter B. Vaill

Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies are Mastering the Skills of Radical Change

Author: David A. Nadler

Building the bridge as you walk on it: a guide for leading change

Author: Robert E. Quinn

Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation

Author: Richard Barrett

Birth of the Chaordic Age

Author: Dee W. Hock

Appreciative Inquiry: Foundations in Positive Organization Development

Author: David L. Cooperrider, Peter F., Jr. Sorensen, Therese F. Yaeger, and Diana Whitney

Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination

Author: Jane Magruder WatkinsandBernard J. Mohr

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity

Author: Frank J. Barrettand Ronald E. Fry

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

Author: Marvin Weisbord, Sandra Janoff, and Jack MacNeish

Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

Author: Tom Peters

The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Author: Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community, and Peter Senge

The Thin Book of SOAR; Building Strengths-Based Strategy

Author: Jacqueline M. Stavros, Gina Hinrichs, and Sue Annis Hammond

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change

Author: Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, and David Cooperrider

The Handbook of Large Group Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities

Author: Barbara Benedict Bunkerand Billie T. Alban

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

Author: Peter M. Senge,Art Kleiner,Charlotte Roberts, and Rick Ross

Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life

Author: Gary Hamel

The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems

Author: Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady

Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations

Author: Dannemiller Tyson Associates

Rewiring The Corporate Brain: Using The New Science To RethinkHow We Structure And Lead Organizations

Author: Danah Zohar.

Productive Workplaces Revisited: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

Author: Marvin Ross Weisbord

Presence

Author: Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Author: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, and Spencer Johnson

Open Space Technology: A User's Guide

Author: Harrison Owen

Managing Transitions

Author: William Bridges

Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

Author: Ralph D. Stacey

Managing At the Speed of Change

Author: Daryl Conner

Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architecture

Author: David Nadler, Michael Tushman, and Mark B. Nadler

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

Exemplars

• A look at green Proctor & Gamble products as described by P&G VP of Sustainability, Len Saurs. This video was broadcast on Discovery Channel and hosted by Tristan Rogers. Watch it here:
• Peter Darbee, CEO & Chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, talks about climate change policy, renewable energy and the company's decision to withdraw from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Watch it here.
• Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington DC on May 12, 2009 about the five key characteristics required by today’s CEO in order to successfully lead in the future. Choose more speakers and scroll through speakers: Watch it here.

Upcoming CVDL Events

• New Paths to Profitability: Achieving Superior Performance through Values-Driven Leadership
  - September 16-16, 2010