Leadership
and Management
The 21 Indispensable Qualities
of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
John Maxwell
Leaders or leaders in training must read this book. The author
explains each quality through a story with many examples and exercises.
The Tao
of Leadership: Leadership Strategies for a New Age
John Heider
This book provides simple and clear advice on how to be an
effective leader.
Leadership
and the New Science
Margaret Wheatley
Recently revised and simplified, this challenging book gives you
a new way to look at organizations and how to lead them. It recognizes
chaos and change as a given and provides a simplified view of
the way that scientific principles from many disciplines are
relevant to
leadership.
The One-Minute
Manager Ken Blanchard
Quick and easy to read, this classic is a must for any manager.
Leadership
and the One-Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through
Situational Leadership Ken Blanchard and Patricia Zigarmi
Quick and easy to read, this builds on the one-minute manager as
a leader, written as a story.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers
will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink. This is a business book, yet it integrates business and the
personal. The author states that the left brain
activities of logic and analysis are the ones that have been the
basis for the success of the US economy until now.
However, because of the abundance of material goods we already
have, the
outsourcing of more fields of work to Asia,
and ever-increasing automation, business in the US will require
more right brain thinking in order to be successful in the
future.
The strengths of the right brain allow us to design, innovate, tell
stories, make meanings, engage in constructive and joyful play,
and to increase our capacity for empathy because of the imaginative
function – the right brain allows us to imagine situations and
possibilities other than our own. The future MBA may turn out
to be an MFA!
No need to worry, right brain tendencies are like a muscle –
they can be developed!
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Independent Business Owners/Consultants
Million Dollar
Consultant Alan Weiss
Ask any consultant to recommend a book on growing a practice,
and you will get at least one of Alan’s.
Get Clients
Now C.J. Hayden
For consultants in a service business, this book provides a practical
approach to building a client base in just 28 days.
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Project
Management
Project Management Memory
Jogger Paula Martin and Kate Tate
This index-card size book is an excellent reference for projects,
and you can keep it in your briefcase.
Project
Management, The Managerial Process Clifford F. Gray
and Erik W. Larson
Used by Star Dargin as a textbook
for classes at BU, this book is a clear, straightforward text
with great examples. It also includes a student CD.
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Change:
Personal and Professional
Who Moved My Cheese Spencer
Johnson
This delightful book is about change as seen
through the eyes of two mice and two humans, each with a different
reaction to change. This book helps groups start a discussion
about changes going on in the environment.
Managing Transitions:
Making the Most of Change
William Bridges
Learn how to manage transitions before, during, and after a change,
in both business and personal life. The book gives you a
model that tracks the stages of change, and it includes plenty
of checklists, exercises, and examples.
Leading
Change John Kotter
Looking for an action plan on leading change in organizations?
This book examines why some firms succeed and others fail at change,
then offers an eight-stage process to make sure your plan succeeds.
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Productivity
and Time Management: Personal and Professional
Eat that Frog 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More
Done in Less Time In a short 144 pages all the most efficient hints,
tips and ways to organize your time for your fulfillment and
accomplishment is summarized. I’ve read many longer and more
detailed books on time management. This author seems to have
read some of the same ones I have and summarized them nicely.
Many of these tips you already know, may already be doing,
and others you know you probably should do! Each of the 21
short sections ends with a series of questions to ask yourself
how you are doing in this area. This was the book, which finally
convinced me, after 10+ years of using the paper version of
the Franklin Planner to move to a PDA.
The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People Stephen Covey
Successful people use these seven principles everyday. Try applying
them to both personal and professional situations for positive
results.
First
Things First Steven Covey
A practical how-to book for time management. It balances the professional
and the personal and expands on Habit #3, prioritizing, in ”The Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People”.
The 10
Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management
Hyrum Walker
Another effective time and life management book. It contains proven
strategies for increased productivity and inner peace. (This book
was shipped with Franklin Planners.)
The Art
of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Benjamin Zander and Rosamond Stone Zander
This book helps you gain positive life perspective and attitudes.
Organizing
from the Inside Out Julie Morgenstern
The first four chapters explain how to organize our own way of
doing and thinking, and the rest of the book helps us to organize
the areas we inhabit, such as office, kitchen, and yard. The author
also has a PBS TV special on the same topic.
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Life
Missions, Personal Discovery, Reflections, Ways of Being
I Could Do Anything If
I Only Knew What It Was
How do you discover what you really want and how to get it? Find
the answers in chapters such as these: "I want too
many things," "What are you suppose to be doing,"
"Moving fast, on the wrong track," and "A rage
against the ordinary."
WishCraft:
How to Get What you Want
This book uses very creative exercises to help you discover what
is holding you back.
The Four
Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz
A simple and beautiful book about four agreements: Be impeccable
with your words, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions,
and always do your best.
Forgiveness:
A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart
A practicing therapist and consultant teamed up to write this
book on forgiveness and how to achieve it. It’s based on the belief
of that forgiveness is an integral part of moving beyond anger,
resentment, and guilt.
The Dark
Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity,
Brilliance, and Dreams Deborah Ford
The author uses a wonderful analogy throughout — You are a castle
with a thousand rooms. Some are bright, sunny and beautiful. Some
you haven’t visited in a while or have never seen. This book gently
guides you into discovering and accepting the darker rooms and
integrating them into your self.
Simple Abundance:
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy Sarah Ban Brethnack
This book gives you 365 days worth of meditations and thoughts.
Read it each day to see how it builds on the basic values of gratitude,
harmony, order, and beauty.
The Art
of Happiness: A Handbook for Living Howard Culter
and Dalai Lama
A Westerner follows and interviews the Dalai Lama: Why is it that
he is happy all the time? Why isn’t he ever angry?
All I
Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts
on Common Things
This book is great! Each chapter represents a lesson learned from
everyday life while in Kindergarten.
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Coaching
Co-Active Coaching: New Skills
for Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phil Sandahl
Having been trained in co-active coaching, we use this book as
our coaching model. It discusses
its philosophies and the practical application of them. The book
contains a wealth of coaching forms, checklists, resources and
exercise.
Taming
your Gremlin Richard Carson
This book helps you discover and name the thing that is holding
you back, a.k.a. Your Gremlin, in a fun and helpful way.
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