Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart Ian Ayres, 2007

Economist Ayres shows how super crunchers can provide greater insight into human behavior and use it to predict the future--with staggeringly accurate results.

The five dysfunctions of a team: a leadership fable Patrick Lencioni, 2002

Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle.

Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high Kerry Patterson, 2002

The author describes a crucial conversation as "exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid." Learn how to make these exchanges work by encouraging people to lower their defenses and attack the problem, not each other.