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RECOMMENDED READING
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The Leadership Challenge
– 4th edition by James
Kouzes and Barry Z Posner
This highly researched
book has been a best-seller
on leadership for years! It
strikes a cord with many
because it outlines the 5
Practices of Exemplary
Leadership and every leader
can apply these practices.
In our consulting with
leaders, we utilize an
online 360 degree leadership
feedback assessment based on
these practices called “The
Leadership Practices
Inventory”.
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The Path of Least
Resistance for Managers by
Robert Fritz.
Author Robert Fritz
stresses the distinction
between creating “structural
tension” which enables an
organization to create
vision and successfully
achieve results and
“structural conflict” which
causes an organization to
get stuck “oscillating”
rather than advance.
Applying Fritz’s structural
tension model is a powerful
tool that can help you and
your organization succeed.
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The Five Dysfunctions of
a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
This book has now become
a “bible” for understanding
the dynamics important in
developing effective
teamwork. The other
workbooks by Patrick
Lencioni are also helpful.
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Motivating the “What’s In
It for Me” Workforce:
Managing Across the
Generational Divide and
Increase Profits by Cam
Marston
If you are a Baby Boomer
and you are managing Gen
Xers and New Millennial
workers then this book can
help you to understand what
younger workers value and
give you new tools for
communicating more
effectively with them.
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Co-Active Coaching: New
Skills for Coaching People
toward Success in Work and
Life, 2nd Edition by Laura
Whitworth and Karen Kimsey-House
A primer for anyone
wanting to learn coaching
skills.
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Crucial Conversations:
Tools for talking when the
stakes are high by Kerry
Patterson, Joseph Grenny,
Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
This book has many
useful tools to help you
communicate effectively and
be “persuasive, not
abrasive”, especially during
difficult conversations.
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Getting Things Done: The
Art of Stress-Free
Productivity by David Allen
This is the latest book
by productivity guru David
Allen and his tips and
techniques can help you
manage your prorities and
stay focused on creating the
results you want.
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Getting to Yes:
Negotiating Agreement
Without Giving In by Roger
Fischer, William Ury and
Bruce M. Patton
We have been
recommending this slim book
for many years and its
advice is timeless.
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Strengths Finder 2.0 by
Tom Rath
This newest version of
“Now Discover your
Strengths” includes the
latest version of the online
test from Gallup. You can
take the online test in just
a few minutes and receive a
report outlining your
strengths. Knowing your
strengths and fully applying
them to your life is an
important key to unlocking
your natural talents.
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Making the Most of Change
(When Change is Making the
Most of You) by Roz Turner
A little book with big
ideas for managing change,
especially appropriate
during today’s environment
of constant change. (E-mail
us to order directly through
Roz Turner & Associates or
order through Amazon.com)
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Your Money or Your Life:
9 Steps to Transforming Your
Relationsip with Money and
Achieving Financial
Independence: Revised
and Updated for the 21st
Century by Vicki Robin, Joe
Dominguez and Monique
Tilford
This book came out in its
original version 10 years
ago and is even more
pertinent today, in light of
today’s difficult economic
environment. Read it to
learn how to reassess what’s
important to you and how to
use your life energy to
create the things you truly
value in life.
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LifePlan: Tools Every
Teenager Needs to Thrive,
Not Merely Survive by Andew
Mecca
This book, written by
Andrew Mecca, president of
the California Mentor
Foundation and one of the
founders of the LifePlan
Institute, outlines the
challenges facing teenagers
today and offers tools to
overcome these challenges.
The book was the inspiration
for Andrew Mecca to start
the LifePlan Institute, a
non-profit organization with
the vision of helping 10
million teenagers in ten
years. (For more information
on the LifePlan Institute
visit
www.lifeplaninstitute.org.)
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Simplified Strategic
Planning: The No-Nonsense
Guide for Busy People Who
Want Results Fast by Robert
W. Bradford
A useful resource for
the strategic planning
process.
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The Transformational Power of Executive Team Alignment
by Miles Kierson
This slim little book is big on sharing what’s possible for organizations when the
senior leadership is truly aligned around the same compelling vision and takes actions
consistent with that vision. This book can help you to create a culture of execution,
where conscious, focused communication and action becomes second nature.
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