A good friend and very successful publicist, Mark Fortier was kind enough to pass along the information that Discovery Driven Growth has been recommended by the editors of "Agenda" magazine, a magazine aimed at corporate directors. If you read the post below, you'll see that we are in very good company!
Directors' Recommended Reading
Directors are turning to a wide array of reading materials to give them an edge in their oversight duties. In fact, out of 101 directors who responded to Agenda’s most recent Directors and Officers Outlook survey with a book or other reading material to help corporate directors with their board duties, only two respondents gave the same response: Atlas Shrugged,Ayn Rand’s most critically acclaimed novel. The rest of the recommendations are dominated by business books, many of which were published in the last year. Below is a list of those recommendations.
Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
Paperback: 1,200 pages
Publisher: Plume (August 1, 1999)
List Price: $25.00
Director’s Comment: “It reinforces the importance of playing and investing to win in a capitalist,
global economy.”
The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization
By Stephen Roach
Paperback: 414 pages
Publisher: Random House (1957)
List Price: $16.95
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
By Dan Ariely
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; revised and expanded edition (April 27, 2010)
List Price: $15.99
The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations
That Win
By Dave Ulrich and Wendy Ulrich
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (June 6, 2010)
List Price: $27.95
Well Made in America: Lessons from Harley-Davidson on Being
the Best
By Peter C. Reid
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (April 1991)
List Price: Out of print (available from used booksellers)
Director’s Comment: “The turnaround of Harley-Davidson can be an [important] lesson for us all.”
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
By Andrew S. Grove
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Crown Business (March 16, 1999)
List Price: $16.95
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to do About It)
By Michael E. Raynor
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business (February 20, 2007)
List Price: $27.50
Director’s Comment: “It offers a way to think critically about strategic risk.”
Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity
By Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. Macmillan
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (March 16, 2009)
List Price: $27.95
Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
By Marcia Blenko, Michael C. Mankins and Paul Rogers
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business Press (September 27, 2010)
List Price: $29.95
Director’s Comment: “Excellent book on improving organizational performance.”
Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask
By Ram Charan
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (April 13, 2009)
List Price: $29.95
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
By McKinsey & Company, Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels
Hardcover: 811 pages
Publisher: Wiley; Fifth edition (July 26, 2010)