Reading List

Leadership

There was a time when IQ was considered the leading determinant of success, but this book makes the case that "emotional intelligence" is the strongest indicator of human success. People who possess high emotional intelligence are the people who truly succeed in work as well as play, building flourishing careers and lasting, meaningful relationships. 

A major step forward in our understanding of intrinsic motivation. This book is readable, logical, and especially relevant to those concerned with the attraction, retention, and motivation of knowledge workers and the effective management of Generation X employees."   

Since its release in 1990, Peter M. Senge's bestselling The Fifth Principle has converted readers to its innovative business principles of the "learning organization," personal mastery, and systems thinking. Published nearly a decade later, Dance of Change provides a formidable response to businesspeople wondering how to make his programs stick.

This updated paperback edition offers a real blueprint for how to deal with the dramatic change in today's marketplace.

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras

An analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence. The authors, spent six years in research, and they freely admit that their own preconceptions about business success were devastated by their actual findings.   

This book gathers the wisdom of one hundred top business people, explaining the twelve qualities of leaders.  It is a fast, yet thoughtful read with great real-life stories.

The Instant Millionaire: A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth
Mark Fisher

This delightful allegory by self-made millionaire Mark Fisher imparts the principles of wealth as Fisher learned them. A dissatisfied young man meets an old millionaire who reveals to him the secrets of acquiring not just material abundance, but also true wealth.

Break down cultural barriers and build prosperous relationships with these effective strategies for successful global dealings.

Teams

This book offers valuable advice in the fine art of building teams for high performance results...The authors provide real and disguised examples...along with specific recommendations...and offer useful ideas for balancing work responsibilities, executive egos, communications, and skills

Team Talk explains why cross-functional teamwork is so challenging for professional employees. Drawing on interviews and observations of teams in Fortune 200 companies, Donnellon lets readers listen in on actual team conversations to explore the inherent paradoxes of teamwork..

 Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his two collaborators explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming a high performing team-Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Integration, and Production. They then show how a manager can help any group become fully effective sooner and with much less stress. 

This book emphasizes the importance of focusing first on people rather than technology when trying to make a virtual workplace happen. Successful virtual companies observe the "The 90/10 Rule". It's 90% people and 10% technology.  

Coaching

This book provides a good introduction to coaching.

Written by coaches that founded the Coaches Training Institute this book explain the co-active model for coaching and includes a number of handy coaching tips.  

Career Development

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career For You Through Secrets of Personality Type
Paul D Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger

For over 10 years, Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find the job that suits their personality type best. Using workbook exercises, the book provides specific job search strategies, including information on how to harness the power of the Internet to conduct the most efficient and effective job search. 

The original career classic has been revised and rewritten and is designed to work in conjunction with the book's Web site. At the heart of Bolles's formula for finding the right job are two questions: What do you want to do? Where do you want to do it? Answer those and you're well on your way to finding the job you really want.

A life without direction is a life without passion," says motivational specialist, therapist, and career counselor Barbara Sher. In I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, a sort of broader, less dense, and less intimidating version of What Color Is Your Parachute?, she reveals how to "recapture long lost goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams."