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
Daniel H. Pink
This 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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