Handbook Catalog

After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success (Hardback)

Provides a clear look at the tasks and problems of post-merger integration. The first book ever written on merger integration strategy, it was named "one of the best business books of the year" by Library Journal.  >more

The Breakthrough Principle of 16X: Real Simple Innovation
for 16 Times Better Results

A realistic, ready-to-use innovation process for doing things differently, with no more effort or energy, to get 16 times better results.  >more    >video clip

Business As UnUsual: The Handbook for Managing and Supervising Organizational Change

A "quick impact" manual for executives, middle managers, and supervisors, with 27 guidelines for successfully managing change. >more

Carpe Mañana: 10 Critical Leadership Practices for Managing Toward the Future

Tomorrow comes at us with ever-increasing speed. Start shaping its possibilities this very moment with 10 leadership behaviors that will seize the possibilities of the future. >more

Culture Shift: The Employee Handbook for Changing Corporate Culture

Provides an entirely new mindset for your staff, quickly transforming behavior through the entire organization to create a more flexible, adaptable culture.  >more

Deep Strengths: Getting to the Heart of High Performance

Deep Strengths Provides a new model and approach for "strength training" that you can put to work in your organization. >more

The Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions

Answers the hot questions about what happens during a merger and provides 10 easy-to-follow "survival steps" on how to make a positive contribution. >more

The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change

Clears up the 11 damaging "myths" about change and offers the reader 9 guidelines for becoming a change agent. >more

The Employee Handbook for Shaping Corporate Culture: The Mission Critical Approach to Culture Integration and Culture Change

Delivers a crucial all-employee message on the "how-to's" of culture integration and change while distributing accountability for the change effort throughout the organization. >more

The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World

New Work Habits uses hard facts and powerful logic to corner the reader with the reality of how he or she must change because of the radical shifts in the world. >more

The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for the Next Millennium

The sequel to Pritchett's best seller, The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World. >more

The Employee Orientation Library

Set new hires off on the right foot and guide them toward A Player performance with these 5 best-selling handbooks. Contains our top sellers in subjects ranging from teamwork to change, all for a special discounted price. >more

The Ethics of Excellence

Use this handbook to deliver the critical message that the ethical standards of each employee can shape the organization's future. Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. >more

Fast Growth: A Career Acceleration Strategy

Provides a breakthrough strategy for career acceleration, increased competency, and maximum employability. Gives 12 high-performance guidelines to achieve job security and career success. >more

Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change: A Handbook for Managers

You need high job commitment in your organization right now—people who are committed to the results that
count. >more

HardOptimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins

Helps your people develop the thought patterns that build resilience...that serve as a buffer against stress...that energize, empower, and enhance performance in virtually all circumstances. >more

High-Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers

A direct, usable, real-world message on how to change corporate culture, with 22 specific guidelines for high-velocity transformation. >more

Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart (Hardback)

This book is "the process bible" for anyone interested in performance improvement consulting. It provides the foundation and key building blocks for PRITCHETT's flagship process improvement approach: ePIP (electronic Process Improvement Project). >more

The Leadership Engine: Building Leaders at Every Level

Information and exercises to help tap your leadership potential. Based on the best-selling hardback, The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level, by Noel Tichy and Eli Cohen. >more

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (Hardback)

Named one of the best business books of 1997 by BusinessWeek and Library Journal, this best-selling hardback by Noel Tichy and Eli Cohen describes a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level. >more

Making Mergers Work: A Guide to Managing Mergers & Acquisitions

Offers specific suggestions on how to avoid the high cost of merger failure, improve productivity, protect market share, and overcome resistance. >more

Managing Sideways: A Process-Driven Approach for Building
the Corporate Energy Level and Becoming an "Alpha Company"

Gives the most important ground rules and critical success factors for becoming a process-centric, performance-driven organization. Pritchett's precise, no-fluff style of writing gets down to the basics of what everyone needs to know about process improvement to take action and get results fast. >more

The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper":
An Employee Handbook on Innovation

Co-authored with Brian Muirhead, Flight System Manager of the JPL Mars Pathfinder Team, this book shows how a small group of dedicated people—tapping into the spirit of ingenuity and innovation—proved that "faster-better-cheaper" works. >more

Mergers, Growth in the Fast Lane

Written for every senior and mid-level manager, the handbook provides 10 guidelines on how to win in the new merger game. >more

MindShift: The Employee Handbook for Understanding the Changing World of Work

Shows what's driving today's high-velocity change, where it's taking us, and how we need to reframe our thinking to fit the new realities of today's world. >more

Outsourced: 12 New Rules for Running Your Career in an Interconnected World

Provides 12 new rules for running your career in an interconnected world. Reviews how to shift loyalties, prepare to work in new ways, stretch yourself, and focus on the customer. >more

The Quantum Leap Strategy

A high-velocity formula for penetrating imaginary barriers and achieving dramatic breakthroughs. >more

Resistance: Moving Beyond the Barriers to Change

Resistance can be the number one barrier to achieving speed, creativity, and adaptability. This handbook shows your staff, from top to bottom, how to re-channel precious energy, get aligned, and focus on moving your organization
forward. >more

Service Excellence!

Lays out both the "how to" and the "payoff" for giving outstanding customer service. Examines seven common roadblocks to quality service and offers a strategy for becoming a service champion. >more

Smart Moves: A Crash Course on Merger Integration Management

Identifies the 16 essential guidelines that protect the organization's productivity, people, and profits during a merger. >more

A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change

Shows employees how they can avoid 15 basic mistakes that create major stress in the workplace. >more

Team ReConstruction: Building A High Performance
Work Group During Change

Gives managers a powerful 14-point plan for regrouping when work groups get hit by change. The focus is on immediate recovery—mobilizing the group, marshalling its resources, and energizing employees. >more

Teamwork: The Team Member Handbook

Basics for creating a tightly-knit, high-powered team are laid out in 16 guidelines—a message that inspires, coaches, and deputizes each employee to take responsibility for overall team results. >more

Topgrading: How to Hire, Coach and Keep A Players

The platinum standard for hiring, coaching and keeping top talent. Based on the best-selling hardcover book, Topgrading, by Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D., this handbook highlights the essential elements for building a team of A players. >more

The Unfolding

A handbook for living strong, being effective, and knowing happiness during uncertain times. >more

you2: A High-Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your
Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps

A high-velocity formula for achieving the performance breakthroughs required in today's fiercely competitive
world. >more