Dave Ulrich recommends books for HR professionals

Making knowledge productive remains a challenge and opportunity for businesses and HR leaders. Dave Ulrich, along with his colleagues, has spent decades (with over 30 books) figuring out how to create value for all stakeholders through human capabilities (talent, leadership, organization, and HR). In doing this work, he learns from many thoughtful authors whom he follows. A follow-able author is someone who does thoughtful, forward-looking, research-based, and relevant work. Ideally, the author has a track record of evolving ideas that morph as the author continues to learn. This means more than one story, experience, or book, but a stream of innovative ideas.

The following is a list of authors that are followed and recommended by Dave Ulrich listed alphabetically by the last name. For each author there are some of the author's top-selling books you can read for personal development:

Author	Recommended books
Mike Beer	Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value
	Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy
	High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
John Boudreau	Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work
	Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage
	Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital
	Retooling HR: Using Proven Business Tools to Make Better Decisions About Talent
	Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Wayne Brockbank	HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources
	Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It
	HR Competencies: Mastery at the Intersection of People and Business
	HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In
	The HR Value Proposition
Peter Capelli	Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order
	The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management
	Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
	The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce
Ram Charan	The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership Book 391)
	What the CEO Wants You To Know, Expanded and Updated: How Your Company Really Works
	The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders
	The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact
	The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
Marshall Goldsmith	What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
	Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be
	Lessons from Leaders Volume 1: Practical Lessons for a Lifetime of Leadership
	Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
Lynda Gratton	The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World
	Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy - And Others Don't
	Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, and Success
	The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems
	Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose
Gary Hamel (and CK Prahalad)	Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
	The Future of Management
	Competing for the Future
	Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Review Classics)
	What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
Mark Huselid and Dick Beatty	The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
Mark Huselid and Dick Beatty	The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
Ed Lawler	Reinventing Talent Management: Principles and Practices for the New World of Work
	Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Individuals Can Propel Each Other into a Virtuous Spiral of Success
	Assessing Organization Agility: Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation (J-B Short Format Series)
	Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
	Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage
Jeffrey Pfeffer	Power: Why Some People Have It - and Others Don't
	Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
	Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
	Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
	The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Norm Smallwood	Results-Based Leadership
	The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead
	Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts
	Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value
	Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve The Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make
Wendy Ulrich (Dave Ulrich’s wife)	Let God Love You: Why We Don't; How We Can
	Weakness Is Not Sin: The Liberating Distinction That Awakens Our Strengths
	Forgiving Ourselves
	Habits of Happiness
	The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That, Win
Pat Wright	Human Resource Management
	The Chief HR Officer: Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
	Strategic Human Resource Management: A Research Overview
Arthur Yeung	Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Greater Value in Rapidly Changing Markets
	Organization Learning Capability: Generating and Generalizing Ideas with Impact
	The Globalization of Chinese Companies: Strategies for Conquering International Markets

Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and a partner at The RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value.