BOOKS
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
 |
Employee Well-being Support: A Workplace Resource
Author: Andrew Kinder, Rick Hughes, Cary L. Cooper, Editors Employees have a set of needs as part of the 'psychological contract' of employment. However, organizations operate for a reason and they too have agendas and needs. It is how the two come together that determines the capacity for good human relations and optimum productivity. Employee Well-being Support is an edited collection of expert contributions that explores all key issues in this increasingly critical area. |
 |
First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
Author: Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman These two consultants for the Gallup Organization expose the fallacies of standard management thinking, debunking some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy. |
 |
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman Seligman, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the guru of the "positive psychology" movement, examines how individuals might achieve a richer, multilayered goal: a life of well-being. He identifies four factors that can help individuals thrive: positive emotion, engagement with what one is doing, a sense of accomplishment, and good relationships. |