This list of books represents some of the work that has shaped our thinking. This does not mean that we agree with all the ideas represented in them, or that we are recommending them, simply that these are books have had some significant impact on our learning and our thinking.


Changing Conversations
  • Changing Conversations in Organisations: A complexity approach to change - Patricia Shaw
  • Turning to one another - Margaret Wheatley
  • Body and Soul - Anita Roddick.
  • Fierce Conversations - Susan Scott
Leadership, Business & Organisational Developments
  • Corporate Lifecycles - Ichak Adizes.
  • Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect - Ichak Adizes.
  • Body and Soul - Anita Roddick.
  • Business as Unusual - Anita Roddick.
  • In Search of Excellence - Tom Peters and Robert Waterman
  • A Passion for Excellence - Tom Peters and Nancy Austin
  • Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organisations - Charles Handy
  • The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future - Charles Handy
  • Creating Strategic Change: Designing the Flexible, High Performance Organisation - William A. Pasmore.
  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - James Collins and Jerry Porras
  • Principle Centred Leadership - Steven Covey
  • Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole Organisation for Rapid Change - Billie Alban and Barbara Bunker
  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation - Peter Senge.
  • The Fifth Discipline Field book: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organisation - Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Bryan Smith, Richard Ross.
  • Seeing Systems - Barry Oshry
  • Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance - Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom.
  • Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way we Change Organisations - Richard H Axelrod.
  • Creating a Learning Organisation - Bob Garratt
Consultancy
  • Client Centred Consulting: A Practical Guide for Internal Advisors and Trainers - Peter Cockman, Bill Evans, and Peter Reynolds.
  • A Consultancy Approach for Trainers - Keri Phillips and Patricia Shaw.
  • Bluff your Way in Consultancy - Nigel Viney.
  • Management Consultancy in the 21st Century - Fiona Czerniawska
  • Performance Consulting: Moving Beyond Training - Dana Gaines Robinson and James C Robinson.
  • Soloing: Reaching Life's Everest - Harriet Rubin
  • Flawless Consulting - Peter Block.
Learning & Development
  • Brain-Based Learning - Eric Jensen
  • Coaching for Performance - John Whitmore
  • Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century - Howard Gardner
  • Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps - Barbara and Allan Pease
General / Personnal Development
  • Who Moved my Cheese: An Amazing way to Deal With Change in your Work and in your Life - Dr Spencer Johnson
  • The Pursuit of WOW!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy Turvy Times - Tom Peters
  • End the Struggle and Dance with Life: How to Build Yourself up When the World Gets You Down - Susan Jeffers
  • A Simpler Way - Margaret J Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers
  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff… and it's all small stuff - Richard Carlson
  • Dilbert!