Recommended Reading for Professional and Personal Development

Recommended Reading:
Six Sigma

The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance, by Peter S. Pande, et al, Robert Nueman, and Rolan Cavaanagh.

Managing Six Sigma: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Implementing Strategy, by Forrest W. Breyfogle, James M.Cupello, and Becki Meadows.

Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods, by Forrest W. Breyfogle.

Building Continual Improvement, by Donald J. Wheeler, Sheila R. Poling.

The Complete Guide to Six Sigma, by Thomas Pyzdek.

Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World’s Top Corporations, by Mikel J. Harry and Richard Schroeder.

Six Sigma for Managers, by Greg Brue

The Six Sigma Revolution: How General Electric and Others Turned Process Into Profits, by George Eckes

Making Six Sigma Last: Managing the Balance Between Cultural and Technical Change, by George Eckes

The Six Sigma Way: Team Fieldbook, by Peter Pande, Peter, Robert Neuman, and Roland Cavanagh

Out of Crisis, by W. Edwards Deming
Implementing Six Sigma, 2nd Edition, by Forrest Breyfogle
Management Leadership

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure, by Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr.
Reengineering the Corporation, by Michael Hammer and James Champy.

Beyond Reengineering, by Michael Hammer.

The Reengineering Revolution, by Michael Hammer and Steven A. Stanton.

Jack Welch & The GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO, by Robert Slater.

Discontinous Change, by David A. Nadler.

Leading Change, by John Kotter.

Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic, by William Bratton, Peter Knobler.
Process Improvement

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox.
Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, by Donald J. Wheeler.
Technical

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, by Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith.
Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, by Hitoshi Kume.
Statistics Can Be Fun, by Wendell H. Abbott.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte.
Change Management

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Benchmarking

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don't, by Jim Collins.
Web Addresses

www.six‑sigma.com/ , a six sigma overview.
www.ge.com/annual97sixsigma/index.htm , GE’s annual report with six sigma examples.
www.isixsigma.com , six sigma resources for achieving six sigma results.
RECENT ARTICLES
Overview and General

"Six Sigma: Road Map For Survival" by Joseph Defeo, HRFocus, July 1999.

"In Pursuit of Perfection" by Stephen Franklin, Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1999.

"Six Sigma: A Breakthrough Strategy for Profitability" by Mikel J. Harry, American Society for Quality Control, May 1998.

"Firms Aim for Six Sigma Efficiency" by Del Jones, USA Today, July 21, 1998.

"Abatement of Business Risk Is Key to Six Sigma: A Closer Link to Executive Thinking," by Mikel J. Harry, Quality progress, July, 2000.
General Electric (GE)

"Growth Initiatives" by Jack Welch, Shelton Marketing Communications, June 1999.

"New Economy, Old School Rigor," GE’s Management Methods Are Put to Work on the Web, by Claudia H. Deutsch, The New York Times, Monday, June 12, 2000.

"Implementing Six Sigma at GE," by Candace A. Hendricks, Richard L. Kelbaugh, Journal for Quality & Participation, July/August 1998.

"Six Sigma Enlightenment; Managers Seek Corporate Nirvana Through Quality Control" by Claudia H. Deutsch, The New York Times, December 7, 1998.
Cisco

"How To Drive An Express Train: At Fast Moving Cisco, CEO Says: Put Customers First, View Rivals As Good Guys," by Scott Thurm, The Wall Street Journal.

"Making Decisions in Real Time" by Thomas A. Stewart, Fortune, June 26, 2000.
DuPont

"DuPont and the Cult of the Six Sigma Samurai," by Michael Burger, Corporate Counsel, August, 2000.

Honeywell/Allied Signal

"Getting With the Program," by Roger Yu, Jill J. Barshay, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, June 14, 1999.

Scott Paper/GE

"Six Sigma and the Future of the Quality Profession" by Roger W. Hoerl, American Society for Quality Control, June 1998.

DMAIC

"The Fundamentals of Six Sigma," American Society for Quality Control, June 1998.

Videos

"Time: The Next Dimension of Quality."