Recommended Reading

Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t “What Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive were to the 20th-century industrial age, Ram Charan’s Know-How is to the 21st-century global digital knowledge worker age. Brilliant, immensely practical, and comprehensive — with almost self-evident prophetic wisdom.” - Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”

Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win Meet the innovators and upstarts who are inventing the future of business. Their unconventional ideas and groundbreaking strategies can become your business plan for the twenty-first century—a better way to lead, compete, and succeed. Business as usual is a bust. In industry after indus-try, the old guard is cutting back and losing ground. Meanwhile, organizations that were once dismissed as upstarts, as wildcards—or mavericks—are making waves and growing fast. There is a reason: In an age of hypercompetition and nonstop innovation, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something truly original.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Productivity trainer and consultant David Allen offers a crash course in basic time management and personal organization. While Allen’s reading is a little stiff, his enthusiasm for the topic and his passion for systems comes across loud and clear. Allen’s message is concise: Organize yourself to free your mind for greater pursuits. And this simple production makes that daunting task seem possible.

The Daily Drucker These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker’s lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker’s ideas into practice. It is as if the wisest and most action-oriented management consultant in the world is in the room, offering his timeless gems of advice. The Daily Drucker is for anyone who seeks to understand and put to use Drucker’s powerful words and ideas.

Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your company, your career, and your life. Authored by three thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement - including Built to Last coauthor Jerry Porras - it challenges conventional wisdom at every step.

Leadership Without Easy Answers “Alive with insights, concepts, new ideas, just teeming with the kind of creative approach to the study of leadership that I and of course many others esteem. In a field in which there has been a great deal of repetitious work, Heifetz strikes out in ground-breaking directions.” - James MacGregor Burns, Author of Leadership<

Leadership from the Inside Out “Leadership from the Inside Out is an interactive,reflective journey into the heart of authentic,personal leadership. It gives you the practical tools to grow as a whole person to become a leader for life. Leadership from the Inside Out was named the #1 best selling business book by CEO-READ in 2000.”

Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work Transforming performance involves listening and communicating . . . The ultimate goal of quiet leadership is to empower employees.

Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask “In Leading with Questions, Michael Marquardt maps the future of leadership. ‘The leader of the past was a person who told,’ Peter Drucker once said. ‘The leader of the future will be a person who asks.’ Read this book if you want to see the future.” - Robert Kramer, director, executive education programs, American University

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable “Every manager and executive will recognize themselves somewhere in this book. Lencioni distills the problems that keep even the most talented teams from realizing their full potential. Even more important, he shows — in prose that is crisp, clear, and fun to read — how to solve them.” –Geoffrey A. Moore, Chairman, The Chasm Group, Author, Crossing the Chasm; Inside the Tornado; Living on the Fault Line

The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition “Leadership books are a dime a dozen and most don’t last a week let alone years. The Leadership Challenge has lasted because it is research based, it is practical, and it has heart! Believe me&they have hard evidence for what we usually think of as a soft topic. This book especially shines when ordinary folks can take these practices and work them into our lives on a moment-by-moment basis. Both authors are leaders in their own right, which doesn’t hurt a bit. Why offer a new revision? Practically speaking, Jim and Barry have piles of new data to share, new real life examples to tell, and updates given the wild and crazy new economy.” - Tom Peters, management guru, founder and chairman, Tom Peters Company and author, In Search of Excellence

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal - “Fantastic! At the heart of this book is a simple truth: the secret to lasting success — individually and organizationally — lies in how we manage our energy. This is a phenomenal insight that most of us ignore. Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr provide a very practical map for marshaling our energy — physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually — to live much more productive and fulfilling lives.” - Marcus Buckingham Coauthor, “First, Break All The Rules” and “Now, Discover Your Strengths.”

The Leader’s Voice: How Communication Can Inspire Action and Get Results! “To say language is everything to a leader is no understatement. It’s a fact,” says Tom Peters, America’s Number One business guru. Clarke and Crossland, executives at tompeterscompany, show how others can use leadership principles to discover the power in their voice. The authors define the core principles of effective leadership communication. In a volatile business climate like today’s, the ability to communicate authentically and powerfully is the crucial leadership competence…….Ever wonder how John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher and Martin Luther King, Jr. commanded through communication? Read this book and apply the principles. You’ll discover the power in your voice!