Leadership Bookshelf

What the world’s most influential leaders know is that the secret to achieving that effectiveness is becoming coachable. And in order to do so, one must be ready to engage in the process of betterment, starting with investing in yourself in order to give the most back to your organization, team, and the world.

The best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve performance and increase employee and customer satisfaction. Dr. Cloud offers practical advice on how to manage teams, coach direct reports, and instill an organization with strong values and culture.

Learn shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone—and a completely new approach to building connections.

Using adult development theory, Berger explains the four predictable stages of leadership maturity and wisdom, and how to accelerate growth toward the third and fourth stages. Whether you're a seasoned leader or an emerging coach, Changing on the Job is a roadmap to cultivating courageous, wise, and steady leadership in an uncertain world.

The five dimensions of Co-Active Leadership work together holistically, starting with self-leadership. Depending on the situation, you may lead from the front, offering guidance or inspiration; from behind, encouraging others; from beside, partnering with others; or from the field, drawing on collective insights and wisdom.

In a complex and constantly evolving business and social environment, teams can only keep up if they adapt frequently. But to adapt, they must have clarity about their internal and external systems and how these contribute to or undermine performance. Explore the six most significant aspects of team function that underpin performance.

Conscious business means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business fosters personal fulfillment in the individuals, mutual respect in the community, and success in the organization. Achieve what really matters in the workplace and beyond.

Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Learn how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Cues – the tiny signals we send to others 24/7 through our body language, facial expressions, word choice, and vocal inflection – have a massive impact on how we, and our ideas, come across. Our cues can either enhance our message or undermine it. Learn how to convey power, trust, leadership, likeability, and charisma in every interaction

When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work.

It’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. Explore a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills: 1) Self-Awareness; 2) Self-Management; 3) Social Awareness; and 4) Relationship Management. Assessment included.

Scott teaches us how to spot the worst “best” practices in our organizations using a technique she calls “squid eye”–the ability to see the “tells” or signs that we have fallen prey to disastrous behaviors. A refreshingly candid book for leaders who are ready to take a hard look at lurking trouble and do something about it.

In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish.

A comprehensive roadmap for team coaching, explaining all the key elements alongside practical tools and techniques for developing international and virtual teams, executive and non-executive boards and project and account teams in all types of organizations. Features case studies, insights, and guidance for coaches and senior leaders.

Discover and overcome the persistent lies that are at the heart of the people-related dysfunction that plagues relationships and hinders organizational results. Through story-telling, this book reveals the ways we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage our efforts to achieve success and rebuild broken relationships.

For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. Today's escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Includes Leadership Circle Profile assessment.

Lencioni offers specific, practical guidance for overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team, using tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. He examines questions that all teams must ask themselves: Are we really a team? How are we currently performing? Are we prepared to invest the time and energy required to be a great team?

A brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.

Scalable leadership drives forward-momentum by multiplying high-achieving leaders so that growth, productivity and innovation increase exponentially. Creative leaders multiply their strengths beyond technical competence by leading in deep relationship, with radical humanity, passion and integrity. Reactive leaders limit scale. Which type are you?

Based on Gallup’s extensive research, this book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. Includes Assessment Access Code.

Explore why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging. The authors offer a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice.

Get to grips with how to actually change your behavior so you stay curious a little bit longer. It sounds like it should be easy, but it's not. You have to tame your Advice Monster, that part of you that jumps in to offer up ideas, opinions, suggestions and advice. Discover tools to make your conversations, coaching and otherwise, irresistible.

The Anatomy of Peace uses a fictional story to powerfully show readers the way to transform conflict. We learn how they come together, how they help parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the personal, professional, and social conflicts that weigh us down.

Learn how coaching can become a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Unlock your peoples' potential with seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how--by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

Leadership is changing, both in look and practice; strictly authoritative approaches are quickly losing ground as today's workers discover the power of collaboration and the importance of interpersonal awareness. This book provides step-by-step guidance for leading from within this space, with evidence-based approaches for success.

“We are living an earned life when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome.” But for many of us, that pesky final phrase is a stumbling block. Not being attached to the outcome goes against everything we’re taught about achievement and fulfillment.

It's often reported that the number one fear among American adults is public speaking. But in today's competitive business world, effective communication is a crucial skill, and the cost of being less than effective is quite high.