Books and articles recommended by members of the American Association of Orthopedic Executives (AAOE).
- 5 Temptations of a CEO. P Lencioni.
- 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. P Lencioni.
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. S Covey.
- Activity Based Cost Management. Gary Cokins.
- Better. A Gawande
- Blink. Malcolm Gladwell.
- Budgeting and Cost Management for Medical Groups. Thomas Feuerstein, CPA & Craig Anderson, CPA.
- Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. Kerry Patterson, et al.
- Crucial Conversations:Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High.Kerry Patterson,et al.
- Discipline Without Punishment. Dick Grover.
- Doctors’ Decisions and the Cost of Medical Care; The Reasons for Doctors’ Practice Patterns and Ways to Change Them. John M. Eisenberg.
- “Financial Management for Medical Groups.” Ernest Pavlock MGMA
- First Among Equals- How to Manage a Group of Professionals. McKenna & Maister.
- First Break All the Rules. Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffin.
- FISH! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results. Stephen C. Lundin Ph.D., Harry Paul & John Christensen.
- Freakonomics. Leavitt & Dubner.
- Getting to Great: Principles of Health Care Organization Governance. DD Pointer & JE Orlikoff.
- Getting to Yes. Fisher, Ury & Patton.
- Good to Great – Why Some Companies Make the Leap. Jim Collins.
- Gut Feelings. Gerd Gigerenzen.
- Handbook in Research and Evaluation. Stephen Isaac.
- Hey I’m the Customer. Ron Willingham.
- Hope for the Flowers. Trina Paulus.
- How Doctor’s Think. J Groopman.
- How to Lie with Statistics. Darrell Huff.
- Jesus as CEO. LB Jones.
- Leadership 101. John C Maxwell.
- Leadership is an Art.Max DePree.
- Leading Change. John P Kotter.
- Managing Transitions. William Bridges.
- Medical Group Practice Chart of Accounts. JPM Associates.
- New Thinking for the Millennium. Edward DeBono.
- Quick Thinking on Your Feet. Valerie Pierce.
- Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell.
- Saving Lives and Saving Money. Newt Gingrich.
- “Six Thinking Hats®.” First Back Bay. MICA Management Resources.
- Social Transformation of American Medicine. Paul Starr.
- Straight A’s Never Made Anybody Rich. Wess Roberts.
- Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace – Language, Sex and Power. Deborah Tannen PhD.
- That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships. Deborah Tannen PhD.
- The Book of Five Rings. Miramoto Musashhi.
- The Brand Called You. Tom Peters.
- The Cartoon Guide To Statistics. Gonick & Smith.
- The Discipline of Market Leaders. Michael Treacy & Fred Wiersema.
- The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. Peter M. Senge.
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Peter M Senge.
- The Game of Work. Charles Conradt.
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Eliyahu M Goldratt.
- The New Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are. Kevin Leman.
- The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness. Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval.
- The Power of Positive Thinking. Norman Vincent Peale.
- The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell.
- There’s a Hair in My Dirt. G Larsen.
- Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill.
- Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits. Owen J Dahl MBA FACHE CHBC.
- ThinkerToys. Michael Michalko.
- We All Fall Down: Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints for Healthcare Systems. J Wright & R King.
- Who Moved My Cheese. Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard.
- Who Shall Live. Victor Fuchs.
- You Can’t Win A Fight With Your Boss. Tom Market.
- You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. Deborah Tannen.