A couple more books that I strongly recommend;
1.) The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki
Love this book.  Does a wonderful job of proving that as I have said, management as we know it is dead...in fact it is the problem.  Couple of things that I really like about this book..it does a great job of showing how and why the crowd beats the experts, and how and why diversity beats homogeneity.  Another thing that I like about this book is that it references a lot of good social psychology research to make its case.  Favorite line from the book:  "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." -Eric Raymond, open source guru

2.) The Lucifer Effect   Philip Zimbardo
I am about 2/3 through this book right now, but I can go ahead and recommend.  I would say that both of these books, should be mandatory for leaders.  The Lucifer Effect is another book that provides a lot of good social psychology research...much of the book so far has been focused on the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which the author oversaw in 1971.  The in depth analysis of this study alone is worth reading the book...fascinating example of "good people" with good intentions in a context that led them to behave very differently. 

-joe

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