Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance of the American Society of Training Directors, 2000 Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for Career Scholarship, 2000 Marion Gislason Award for Leadership in Executive Development, from the BU School of Management Executive Development Roundtable, 2002, Life time achievement award as Scholar Practitioner, Academy of Management, 2009; Life time achievement award for Leadership, International Leadership Assoc., 2012; Honorary Doctorate, Bled School of Management, Slovenia, 2012.
Coercive Persuasion: A socio-psychological analysis of the "brainwashing" of American civilian prisoners by the Chinese Communists (1961) ISBN0-393-00613-1
Professional Education: Some New Directions (1972) ISBN0-07-010042-X
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (with Peter S. DeLisi, Paul J. Kampas, and Michael M. Sonduck, 2004), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN9781576753057.
Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change (edited by Gervase R. Bushe & Robert J. Marshak, foreword Edgar Schein, 2015), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN9781626564046.
Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster (2016), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN9781626567207.
Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (with Peter A. Schein, 2018), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN9781523095384.