Throughout our careers, as practitioners and students of leadership, we’ve been influenced in many ways.
Please enjoy our carefully curated selection some of our favorite books, leader resources, aspirational stories, articles, tools, and more!
Leading the High-Energy Culture: What the Best CEOs Do to Create an Atmosphere Where Employees Flourish by David Casullo Leaders and managers today are experiencing an “energy crisis”. This energy crisis results from the failure to engage and inspire their people. Yet, a handful of leaders have found an endless supply of energy to fuel…
Leading the High-Energy Culture
Jimmy Valvano’s Speech at the 1993 ESPY awards Resource Type: Personal Who this Book is Good For: Emerging Leaders, Experienced Leaders, Executives, Entrepreneurs In 1993, Jimmy Valvano was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award, and the acceptance speech he gave hits home for me every time I hear it. My father died at…
Jimmy Valvano at the ESPY awards
2005 Stanford Commencement Speech featuring Steve Jobs Resource Type: Personal Who this Book is Good For: Emerging Leaders, Entrepreneurs Whether you like or dislike Apple products, anyone interested in product development has to consider Steve Jobs as a rare phenomenon. Following a difficult childhood and the trauma of being put up for adoption by his…
2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Emerging Leaders, Experienced Leaders, Executives, Entrepreneurs The 4-Hour Work Week was given to me by my son. I hope it was not a message to the impact of my work…
The 4-Hour Work Week
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work by David Rock Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Experienced Leaders For me, this book struck a chord because, unknowingly, it taught an approach to leadership that matched my personal strengths and style. At the beginning of the book, I was fascinated by…
Quiet Leadership
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko Resource Type: Aspirational Who this Book is Good For: Entrepreneurs The Millionaire Next Door describes the characteristics and statistics surrounding our nation’s millionaires. Surprisingly, those individuals are not the highest earners because, statistically, the highest earners are…
The Millionaire Next Door
