Books
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General Leadership
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
Patrick Lencioni
The key to successful management is to spot a few things that will make a difference in your organization and then concentrate on doing them. Successful organizations are smart and healthy. A smart organization shows its intelligence in its thoughtful strategies, well-designed products and solid financial infrastructure. Healthy organizations are unified, not splintered by politics and infighting. In the story’s telling, Lencioni deftly helps his readers understand the disarming simplicity and power of creating a healthy organization and reveals four key disciplines that they can follow to achieve it.
The Five Temptations of a CEO
Patrick Lencioni
Being the CEO of an organization is one of the most difficult challenges a person can face in a career. But it is not a complicated one. In fact, when it comes right down to it, there are only five really important things a CEO has to do in order to optimize his or her success. But more importantly, a CEO has to avoid the five temptations that lead to eventual failure.
The Motive – Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
Patrick Lencioni
The Motive helps leaders understand the importance of why they’re leading in the first place. In addition to provoking readers to honestly assess themselves, Lencioni presents action steps for changing their approach in five key areas. In doing so, he helps leaders avoid the pitfalls that stifle their organizations and even hurt the people they are meant to serve.
Leadership and Self-Deception – Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute
Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges at work and at home to expose the fascinating ways that we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve happiness and increase happiness. We trap ourselves in a “box” of endless self-justification. Most importantly, the book shows us the way out. Readers will discover what millions already have learned–how to consistently tap into and act on their innate sense of what’s right, dramatically improving all of their relationships.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen. R. Covey
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
Teams
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide
Patrick Lencioni
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues
Patrick Lencioni
Coaching / Conversations
Coach the Person Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry
Marcia Reynolds
The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs
Marcia Reynolds
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters
Kate Murphy
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? In this always illuminating and often humorous deep dive, Murphy explains why we’re not listening, what it’s doing to us, and how we can reverse the trend.
Meetings
Death by Meeting – About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Patrick Lencioni
Motivation and Engagement
The Truth About Employee Engagement – A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery
Patrick Lencioni
Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars – A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
Patrick Lencioni
Start With Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
Safety, Trust, and Relationships
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
Timothy. R. Clark
Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting, and Enjoying the Self
Charles. L. Whitfield
Understanding People
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks
The 6 Types of Working Genius – A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team
Patrick Lencioni
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
Gretchen Rubin
Culture and Organizational Health
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Patrick Lencioni
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffery K. Liker
Strategy, Goals and Structure
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS))
Gino Wickman
Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit
Brad Hams
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Systems Thinking
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge
The Systems Thinker: Essential Thinking Skills for Solving Problems, Managing Chaos, and Creating Lasting Solutions in a Complex World
Albert Rutherford
Self Awarness, Development, and Care
Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
Leslie Ehm
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, And Unlock Your Exceptional Life
Jim Kwik
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past + Create Your Self
Dr. Nicole LePera
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy Cuddy
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute
Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges at work and at home to expose the fascinating ways that we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve happiness and increase happiness. We trap ourselves in a “box” of endless self-justification. Most importantly, the book shows us the way out. Readers will discover what millions already have learned–how to consistently tap into and act on their innate sense of what’s right, dramatically improving all of their relationships.
Trust the Universe
Gabrielle Bernstein
Influencing Change
Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
Peter Block
Getting Naked – A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
Patrick Lencioni
Systems Thinking
The Systems Thinker
Organizational Development
Institute of Organization Development
Understanding Human Behaviour
Psychology Today
16Personalities (free assessment)
Kolby Index
DiSC Profile
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Podcasts
Adam Grant
Work Life – Organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside some truly unusual places, where they’ve figured out how to make work not suck.
ReThinking – Adam believes that great minds don’t think alike—they challenge each other to think differently. His weekly show explores new thoughts and new ways of thinking.