BOOKS
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101 Best Ways to Be Your Best
Author: Michael Angier Michael Angier, founder and president of SuccessNet, has written a book that offers his best—for your best. 101 Best Ways to Be Your Best is a compilation of the most popular, helpful and uplifting articles from a decade of Angier’s popular writings. For years, Michael Angier has been writing about how to reach your unique potential. His weekly articles tell stories of struggle and achievement, offer practical advice, motivate those on a quest for their best and share the steps of his own personal journey from Vermont farmer to international success guru. |
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
Author: Eckhart Tolle According to Tolle, who assumes the role of narrator as well, humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our ever-expanding egos. This idea is well realized through Tolle's remarkably well-paced narration. ECKHART TOLLE is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace. |
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Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
Author: Jane Magruder Watkins & Bernard J. Mohr This book is a gift to organization development practitioners. It takes us forward both professionally and personally. It challenges us to shift our perspectives, and deepens our understanding of organizations as organic systems. The book provides practical guidance--and encouragement--to creating sustainable change in large complex systems. Jane Watkins and Bernard Mohr are generous in sharing their wisdom and experience. In doing so they place on us tremendous responsibility for the fate of change efforts through our choice of approach to inquiry. |
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Clear Leadership, Revised Edition: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work
Author: Gervase Bushe Expanding on the fresh concepts that made the first edition of Clear Leadership such a success, Bushe brings up-to-date the tools and techniques needed to build sustaining partnerships and make today's collaborative organizations work. This fully revised edition can help anyone cut through the miscommunication, misunderstanding, and toxic mush dominating the workplace to achieve clarity, full engagement, and sustained collaboration. |
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Coaching for Performance, 4th Edition: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose
Author: Sir John Whitmore Bringing together the simplicity of the coaching process and the larger scope of the coaching profession in a readable and provocative way. |
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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to: prepare for high-stakes situations, transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue, make it safe to talk about almost anything, and be persuasive, not abrasive. |
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Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
Author: Stephen R. Covey Stephen R. Covey has helped millions of readers attain professional success and personal fulfillment. With penetrating insight Dr. Covey reveals a pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Now, as a succinct introduction to Dr. Covey's revolutionary thinking or as a reminder of key principles, Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People provides an inspirational recharge that will bring you closer to a holistic sense of personal effectiveness and purpose. |
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Author: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen Bringing together the insights of such diverse disciplines as law, organizational behavior, cognitive, family and social psychology and "dialogue" studies, Stone, Patton and Heen, who teach at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Negotiation Project, illustrate how to handle the challenges involved in effectively resolving "difficult conversations," whether in an interpersonal, business or political context. Most useful are the strategies for disarming the impulse to lay blame and for exploring one's own contribution to a tense situation. Also of value are specific recommendations for bringing emotions directly into a difficult discussion by talking about them and paying attention to the way they can subtly inform judgments and accusations. |
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Drive
Author: Daniel H. Pink From the author of the bestselling A WHOLE NEW MIND, comes a paradigm-shattering look at what truly motivates us and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better. |
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Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Author: Daniel Goleman The Western cultures esteem analytical skills measured by IQ tests: but there is clearly more to success and happiness, even in technological societies, than IQ alone. Goleman has written one of the best books on the nature and importance of other kinds of intelligence besides our perhaps overly beloved IQ. |