Leadership
Effective Executive
Peter Drucker
An oldie but goodie: learn how to spend your time for the greatest good of your organization.
Extraordinary Leader
John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman
This book is a remarkable combination of expert insight and extensive research.
First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
There’s a great employee survey in this book that can provide you with insights on how healthy your department/division/company/organization is.
The First 90 Days
Michael Watkins
Proven strategies for getting up to speed faster and smarter when you’re in a new job.
How Women Rise
Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
A how-to guide for any woman seeking her next success.
Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence
Chalmers Brothers and Vinay Kumar
Understand language and conversations to build and maintain productive, mutually-beneficial relationships – inside and outside your organization. Purposely shape workplace culture to retain talent, cultivate innovation and support your organization’s goals.
Leadership Embodiment
Wendy Palmer and Janet Crawford
The way you stand, sit, and breath can change the way you think and speak.
Leader’s Guide to Storytelling
Stephen Denning
Learn how to use the right story to build support, sell your ideas, and facilitate
change.
Political Savvy
Joel DeLuca
Political smarts – not manipulation – ensure you share information, in the right sequence, to get the results you want.
Resilient Leadership 2.0
Bob Duggan and Bridgette Theurer
Learn to navigate your organization’s emotional system during times of uncertainty and change. This will result in your ability to remain calm, clearheaded, and principled in spite of increasing anxiety and escalating change.
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith
Overcome your sometimes unconscious annoying habits and attain a higher level of success.
Growth and Goal Setting
Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson
In only a few minutes each day, four steps to counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness.
Immunity to Change
Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
Learn your beliefs and assumptions that are blocking you from the changes you want to make.
Missing Conversations
Bridgette Theurer and Heather O’Neill Jelks
Nine questions you should ask yourself to recalibrate your vision, goals, talents, and humanity.
One Small Step Can Change Your Life, The Kaizen Way
Robert Maurer
It’s the small and important steps you can make that can really move you forward.
The Path of Least Resistance
Robert Fritz
Helps you to create and stay focused on your vision to make it happen.
Transitions and Change
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
William Bridges
Change is inevitable; make change work for you and your organization.
Managing at the Speed of Change
Daryl Conner
Some of us readily accept change, other don’t. Learn to help yourself and others.
Champions of Change
David A. Nadler
Insights into how CEOs lead change efforts – successful and not so successfully.
Networking
Make Your Contacts Count (Networking Know-how for Business and Success)
Anne Baber & Lynne Wayman
A practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking opportunities and relationships.
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz
When you want to be motivated go make and build contacts, network, make people connections, build and sustain professional relationships, and build a network of trusted sources for information.
Communications
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matter Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
The truth, delivered in the right way, will move you, others, and your organization forward.
Creating and Sustaining Teams
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Helps you obtain perspective on where your team may be dropping the ball.
17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
John C. Maxwell
Proven concepts to help you build and maintain successful teams.
Time Management
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
A fresh way of getting control of the chaos and disarray in your office and life
