Professional Resources

Collection of Influences & Resources to help you sharpen your skills and grow professionally: Identify the goals and achievements that are important to you in your life’s work.

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

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Strengths Based Leadership from Gallup by Tom Rath

Strengths Based Leadership from Gallup

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

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

StrengthsFinder 2.0 from Gallup by Don Clifton

StrengthsFinder 2.0 from Gallup

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Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

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…

Business Model Generation

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The Millennial Question

Leading a High-Energy Culture by David Casullo

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…

Leading the High-Energy Culture

Are You an Accidental Diminisher - Professional - Exercises

From the book “Multipliers” by Liz Wiseman

Quiz: Are You an Accidental Diminisher?

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…

Multipliers

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“Whiplash”

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“The Intern”

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“4 Tips for Writing an Effective Performance Review”

What New Tea Leaders Should Do First - Professional - Article

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“What New Team Leaders Should Do First”

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“8 Tips To Transition From Co-Worker To Manager”

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“Purpose? Values? Innovation? What’s the Real Key to Company Culture Success?”

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“The Trick to Creating Superstar Employees?”

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“Embrace Your Setbacks – and Use Them to Your Advantage”

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“What’s Your Most Productive Work Time?”

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“The Basics of Managing as a Leader”

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“10 Creative Ways to Show Employee Appreciation”

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“Brené Brown Wants You To Wallow In Your Failure”

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“How to Use Your Alumni Network for Business Success”

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“An Epic List of Team Building Games”

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“Team Building Exercises Your Team Won’t Hate”

The Power of Introverts featuring Susan Cain

The Power of Introverts

The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding featuring John Wooden

The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding

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

Work Rules!

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 Speed of Trust

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

The Culture Code

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…

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…

Quiet Leadership

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

Leading at a Higher Level

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

Leadership Challenge

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,…

Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani

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…

Great by Choice