professional resources

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

Strengths Based Leadership from Gallup by Tom Rath

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Picker

StrengthsFinder 2.0 from Gallup by Don Clifton

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Experienced Leaders, Executives This is not your traditional management or business strategy book! Highly…

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…

From the book “Multipliers” by Liz Wiseman

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Emerging Leaders, Experienced Leaders, Executives, Entrepreneurs Wiseman, a former executive at Oracle who served as a global leader of HR…

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The Power of Introverts featuring Susan Cain

The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding featuring John Wooden

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock

The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey Resource Type: Professional Who the Book is Good For: Experienced Leaders Lisa on The Speed of Trust We all value our most trusted relationships. The Speed…

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

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…

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…

Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations by Ken Blanchard

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani and Ken Kurson Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Emerging Leaders This is a tough one.  For those that have followed Rudy Giuliani from his failed presidential run through his recent public performances,…

Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen Resource Type: Professional Who this Book is Good For: Experienced, Entrepreneurs Nine years of research and amazing case studies that vividly illustrate what make the world’s best leaders and companies…

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders by Lindsey Pollak

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Everyone Communicates Few Connect by John C. Maxwell