Good Reads
Clear Leadership by Gervase R. Bushe
Clear Leadership details the four fundamental skills needed to combat the interpersonal mush that hamper honest communication and bogs down even the most effective managers.
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Leadership Aikido by John O'Neil
Leadership skills develop from business experience, but also from the pursuit of self-knowledge. The martial art of aikido provides a framework that can help leaders learn to enhance their effectiveness and stay cool under pressure: practicing the art of planning, letting values drive your decisions, turning failure into success, and heeding the law of unintended consequences.
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Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman
In this rapidly transforming age of 24/7 connectivity and globalization, he encourages readers to strive, no longer for the fiction of "Balance," but instead for "Resilience Mastery." He underscores the critical relationship between personal awareness and leadership effectiveness, yet, challenges us in making the case that awareness alone won't make a lasting impact. In this edition, he goes deeper and broader, expanding his coaching model to provide equal emphasis on building awareness, building commitment, and building practice.
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Leading the Black Belt Way by Timothy H. Warneka
Leading people the black belt way is a blueprint for every leader striving to achieve their personal and professional dreams and goals. Touching on every aspect of leadership, the author offers practical and powerful street-smart strategies that will pave your way to success.
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Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Non-Violent Communication (NVC) provides an easy to grasp, effective method to get to the root of conflict peacefully. By examining the unmet needs behind what we do or say, NVC helps reduce hostility, heal pain and strengthen professional and personal relationships.
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Presence by Peter Senge
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. It explores the nature of transformational change-how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. Too often we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.
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Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and changing the way we looked at leaders and intelligence. Social Intelligence is a synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are "wired to connect" and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives.
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The Discipline of Market Leaders by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
The message of The Discipline of Market Leaders is that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must instead find the unique value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. From a leadership perspective it speaks to the idea that there is not one way to and that the way in which we lead must be connected to the strategy of the organization in order to maximize success.
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True North by Bill George
True North shows how anyone who follows his or her internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders-with some surprising results. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan.
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