Our Iceberg Is Melting - John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber (2006)

This is a perfect coffee table management book you may find in a business hotel's bookshelf. The book can be read in less than two hours. The background can be found in the following link:

http://www.kotterinternational.com/kotterprinciples/our-iceberg-is-melting

The nice thing about this book is it makes change management extremely palatable. It's about identifying change, communicate effectively the change across all affected party in a manner that's acceptable but yet not rousing panic,  create awareness and come up with a change that's acceptable to all even if that means complete change in the way processes work in the setup. Once it's all done, set up a team around it who can keep the new processes going. The only problem is by reading this you may get a false feeling that it's all so simple and you make it all happen. Backing this book are a good 5-6 books worth of research which John Kotter has written. 

A beginner's insight into change management. But don't forget to complete the supplemental readings if you actually want to have a formal experience of change management. 

Strategy and the Business Landscape: Pankaj Ghemawat (2009)

This is not one off coffee table management books for your bookshelf to decorate. This is all serious stuff if you are really keen in reading a book on strategy that summarizes 40 years of strategy literature in less than 200 pages. It expects you are at least exposed to business strategy as a discipline understand Porter's five forces, a bit of game theory principles and lots more. Presents all these in six chapters of rigorous drill on strategy and organization competitive sustenance theory. As part of the book a good refresher to the subject after 5-6 years and more importantly I found the chapter on corporate strategy very nicely dealt with. How companies on completely diversified portfolio of businesses come of with a  corporate strategy is a definite eye opener. This could be due to the fact that I was not exposed to these as part of my formal education.

A great book for academically inclined as a refresher. If you are not please avoid.