Resources
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: How to lead people who don’t report to you; How to build effective relationships and build allies; How to influence your boss, peers, clients and other partners, Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford
Influencer: The power to change anything, Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler
Th 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 8th 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
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: Unconventional strategies that build support for change, Rick Maurer
Leading Change: The argument for values-based leadership, James O’Toole
Aftershock: Helping people through corporate change, Harry Woodward and Steve Buchholz
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: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, Brene Brown
Managing Conflict
Fierce Conversations: Achieving success at work and in life once 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
TED.com (TED Talks)
CCL.org (Center for Creative Leadership)
LeadershipNow.com (Leadership Blog)
ILA-net.org (International Leadership Association)
Palouse Mindfulness – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction