Recommended Readings
Coaching
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
- First Things First, Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill
- Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service, Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
- The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents, Nancy A. Ratey
- How Full Is Your Bucket?, Tom Rath
- How to Win Friends & Influence People Mass Market, Dale Carnegie
Leadership
- Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, Sydney Finkelstein
- Learning to Engage: A Guide to Leaderful Practice, Joe Raelin
- Learning to Lead: A Workbook On Becoming A Leader, Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Michael E. Porter
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
- The Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
- Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen R. Covey
- The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
- Leadership Without Easy Answers, Ronald A. Heifetz
- Creative Curriculum Leadership, Dale L. Brubaker
- The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies and Practices for the Next Era, Frances Hesselbein
- Leadership in Organizations, Gary A. Yukl
- The Leadership Challenge Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
- A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference, Nancy Austin & Thomas J. Peters
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge
- The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge
- The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win, Noel M. Tichy & Nancy Cardwell
- Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone, Joseph A Raelin
- On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic, Warren Bennis
- Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, Ken Blanchard
Entrepreneurship
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, Bo Burlingham
- A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business, Jack Stack & Bo Burlingham
- What No One Ever Tells You about Starting Your Own Business, Jan Norman
Family Business
- Keeping The Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability and Family Leadership, John Ward
- Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business, Kelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton & Ivan Lansberg
- Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses, Quentin J. Fleming
- The Survival Guide for Business Families, Gerald Le Van
- Strategic Planning for The Family Business: Parallel Planning to Unify the Family and Business (A Family Business Publication), Randel Carlock & John Ward
- Wars Of Succession, Roger Fritz
Change Management
- Change Masters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Leading Change, John P. Kotter
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, Spencer Johnson
- Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Management Series), Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal
- Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, William Bridges
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Team
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
- The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials), Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith
Strategy
- Competing for the Future, Gary Hamel & C. K. Prahalad
- The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum in a learning organization (The Fifth Discipline), Peter M. Senge & George Roth
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, Jim Collins
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
- Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution, Tom Peters
- The Pursuit of Wow! Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times, Tom Peters
- The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness, Tom Peters
- Ten Steps to a Learning Organization, Peter Kline & Bernard Saunders