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The USG Human Resources Department houses a variety of books that are available for employee use. Materials may be borrowed by any USG/UMD employee, and are available on a first-come first-served basis by contacting our Team Member - Nitshu Joshi at njoshi14@umd.edu.

  • Bock, L. (2015). Work rules! Insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead (1st ed.). New York, NY: Twelve. This book, particularly for managers and leaders, offers an inspiring and actionable vision to transform the future of work by building a successful, cohesive, high-performing workplace. The book presents a data-driven look into today's workplace and reveals the non-traditional practices that can create high-performance cultures enabling people to do their most important work. 
  • Cloud, H. (2013). Boundaries for leaders: take charge of your business, your team, and your life (1st ed.). New York: HarperBusiness. This book gives leaders the tools and techniques they need to achieve the performance they desire - in their organizations and in themselves. Filled with inspiring and practical examples from Dr. Cloud's coaching practice, this book is essential reading for everyone who aspires to lead companies, teams, and cultures defined by high performance and healthy relationships. 
  • Covey, S. R. (2013). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Anniversary). Simon & Schuster. This book presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, this book reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
  • Detjen, Waters, Watson (2013). The Orange Line: A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career, Family, and Life. Newton (Ma.): JMK Publishing Inc. Through interviews with 118 college-educated women, the authors document the varied career stories and day-to-day anecdotes in the ongoing work-life struggle. The authors provide tools to help women see more clearly a new career path that includes work, family, and themselves. 
  • Goldratt, E. M., & Cox, J. (2014). The goal: a process of ongoing improvement. Great Barrington (Ma.): North river Press. This book is a gripping fast-paced business novel that introduced the Theory of Constraints and transformed management thinking.
  • Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2010). Switch: how to change things when change is hard. New York: Broadway Books. In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
  • Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). Immunity to change: how to overcome it and unlock potential in yourself and your organization. Boston: Harvard Business Press. This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.
  • McKeown, G. (2014). Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less. New York: Crown Publishing Group.  Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to do less, but better, and declutter and organize their own their lives.
  • Rock, D. (2007). Quiet leadership: six steps to transforming performance at work. New York: HarperCollins. Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. This book offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.