Your term paper bibliography consists of twenty books. I have assigned each book to a single student for the purposes of his/her term paper and on-line PowerPoint presentation. The student assigned to each book appears at the end of that book's entry. Because each of these twenty books has value for our learning, making sure that each book is presented benefits everyone in the class. The assignments were random and I will do nothing to modify the book assignments. However, I have set up a discussion forum called The BOOK BROKERAGE in which willing students may voluntarily trade their assigned books (See note below). All trade dialogue must take place in the Discussion Forum, including a final notice verifying any trades. All trades must be completed by March 1.

NOTE: I strongly discourage students from basing their papers on books that are in their present or former line of work. Familiarity breeds not only contempt but also skewed perceptions that block an open mind towards others writing about "your" organization. All students are likely to learn more, and have a more equal workload, if they avoid "self-reflective" books.

Note: These books are recent, written to "read easy," but are nonetheless about serious issues that, when reflected against the Daft text (see term paper instructions), should help you better understand organizations. Whether you are assigned an executive biography, an organizational history, or a "best practices" book, you will find plenty of material on which to base your organizational analysis. If you want to learn more about your book, just click on the provided link, which will take you to an on-line resource containing review and excerpts.

William Bratton with Peter Knobler, Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic. New York: Random House, 1998 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679452516/o/qid=966617971/sr=2-3/103-5646095-2698247 Assigned to: Renee Harsch

Andrew Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive : How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company. New York: Currency Books, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385483821/qid=1013968229/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: John Conroy

Robert Slater. Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070581045/qid=1013968614/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Edwige Anatsui

Jack Welch, John Byrne. Jack: Straight from the Gut. New York: Warner Books, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446528382/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/104-5471442-5573505

Assigned to: Louis Guzzo

James C. Collins. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't. New York: Harper-Collins, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620996/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: William Raftery

James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: HarperBusiness, 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684852861/ref=pd_pym_rvi_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Jian Chen

Marcus Buckingham, Kurt Coffman. First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684852861/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_4/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Jay Thomas

Edgar Schein, Warren Bennis. The Corporate Culture Survival Guide. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787946990/qid=1013972017/br=1-25/ref=br_lf_b_25/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Zeletia Wilson

Lee Bolman, Terrence Deal. Reframing Organizations : Artistry, Choice, and Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787908215/qid=1013972017/br=1-12/ref=br_lf_b_12/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Iris Muskardin

Jeanie Daniel Duck. The Change Monster : The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change. New York, Crown Publishing, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609607715/qid=1013972017/br=1-9/ref=br_lf_b_9/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Teresa Harmon

Deborah Myerson. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875849059/qid=1013972017/br=1-6/ref=br_lf_b_6/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Susana Kuan

Gary Sutton. The Six Month Fix: Adventures in Rescuing Failing Companies. New York: John Wiley, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471036269/qid=1013973944/br=1-11/ref=br_lf_b_11/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Ted Rucki

Eli Silverman. The NYPD Battles Crime: Innovative Strategies in Policing. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555534015/qid=1013974666/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Ralph Vitacco

Daniel Quinn Mills, G. Bruce Friesen. Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Harvard Business School, 1996. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875846548/ref=sim_books/002-5090961-6362828 Assigned to: David Garagiola

Ken Auletta. World War 3.0 : Microsoft and Its Enemies. New York: Random House, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375503668/qid=1013975708/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Phil Salmon

Robert Evans. The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787956112/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_3/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Pamela Olascoaga

Terrence Deal, Kent Peterson. Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787943428/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_2/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: George Doyle

Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential : The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc. No Starch Press, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/188641128X/qid=998430030/sr=1-36/ref=sc_b_36/103-7909515-6754237 Assigned to: Swarti Ramdewar

Oren Harari. The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071388591/qid=1013978030/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Kenneth Mead

Kenneth Sparrow. The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance. Washington: Brookings, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815780656/qid=1013978452/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: Kathryn Kempton

1. Begin your paper by giving an overview of your book. Who are the authors? What does the book set out to do? What are the major overall themes? What are its conclusions, if any? (no more than 2 pages)
2. Next, tell us where YOUR paper is going. What are you going to cover? Whether your book's focus is an individual, organization or a management policy area, tell the reader in advance how you will link any of these three things to particular concepts from organization theory. (1-2 pages)
3. Relate your book carefully and methodically to relevant concepts that appear in Daft. The best way to do this is to identify those items in the table of contents (pp. iii - v) that provide a framework for the things being talked about in your assigned book. You should keep a copy of the table of contents "TC" at hand so that you can systematically connect "TC" headings with the organizational situations covered by your book.
4. After you have identified ALL of the connections--and few, if any, of the assigned books connect to fewer than 50% of the 100+ item subheadings in the Table of Contents--carefully organize these items in a way that coherently tells the story of your book in terms of organization theory concepts. This then becomes your outline for your paper. In creating this outline, your may group different concepts together or treat one concept as a subhead of another. The purpose of this organizing is to create an outline that makes the writing of your paper easier.
5. Finally, write your paper following the outline (which should be a part of your final submission) devoting as much space as you need to convey the full story of your book's relevance to organization theory.
6. End your paper, with a short piece summing up where your paper, overall, has just taken the reader.
7. Add a bibliography including, at a minumum, your assigned book and any other references you used in your paper. Your paper should also use APA style to identify the source and page of any references to particular statements, stories and ideas from your primary book or any other supplemental documents that you utilize.
8. Your PowerPoint persentation should, in approximately ten slides, of three to five short items each, convey the story of your paper, and the book upon which it is based, in a way that will grab the attention of, and inform, your classmates.