Resources

Leadership Books

General Leadership Books

On Becoming a Leader, Warren Bennis

Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader, Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith

The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead, Straw, Scullard, Kukkonen, Davis

How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything, Dov Seidman

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, Adam Grant

Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, Nancy Koehn

Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen R. Covey

Influence Without Authority, Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools, and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World, Ronald A. Heifetz & Marty Linsky

Personality Preferences

Quiet, Susan Cain

The 8 Dimensions of Leadership: DiSC Strategies for Becoming a Better Leader, Sugerman, Scullard & Wilhelm

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type, Isabell Briggs Myers and Peter B. Myers

Resilience

Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities, Paul G. Stoltz

The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness, Paul G. Stoltz and Erik Weihenmayer

GRIT: The New Science of What it Takes to Persevere, Flourish, and Succeed, Paul G. Stoltz

Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living, by Russ Harris

Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work & Life, David Allen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Stephen R. Covey

The 8^th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, Stephen R. Covey

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

Building Teams

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni

Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators, Patrick Lencioni

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating a High-Performance Organization, Jon R. Katzenback and Douglas K. Smith

Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great, Wageman, Nunes, Burruss, and Hackman

Building Trust

The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, Stephen M.R. Covey

Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World, Stephen M.R. Covey and Greg Link with Rebecca R. Merrill

Leading Change

Leading Change, John P. Kotter

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, John P. Kotter

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, John P. Kotter

Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Why 70% of All Changes Still Fail and What You Can Do About It, Rick Maurer

Leading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership, James O’Toole

Aftershock: Helping People Through Corporate Change, Harry Woodward and Steve Buchholz

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity, Jennifer Garvey Berger

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman

The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select for, Measure, and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups, and Organizations, Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman

The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success, Steven J. Stein and Howard E. Book

Make Your Workplace Great: The Seven Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization, Steven J. Stein

The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book: Everything You Need to Know to Put Your EQ to Work, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, Karla McLaren

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brene Brown

The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown

Managing Conflict

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time, Susan Scott

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, Stone, Patton, and Heen

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Fisher, Ury, and Patton

The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship, and Still Say No, William Ury

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations, William Ury

Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, Edgar H. Schein

Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, Deborah Tannen

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