BOOKS
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Author: Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz Using their impressive work with athletes and corporate executives, Loehr and Schwartz lay out the new rules for getting exceptional results in any performance context. Instead of managing time, manage energy between performance sessions to maximize emotional recovery for the next time you push your personal limits. Don't rely on discipline alone; it takes too much effort to micromanage at every moment. What's needed are routines--effective and even rigid practices that optimize recovery between performance sessions. |
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The Power Of Giving
Author: Azim Jamal & Harvey McKinnon This practical and visionary guide helps you discover that the more you give, the more you have. Simple and easy to use, The Power of Giving provides a wealth of down-to-earth ideas, exercises, and real-life stories that reveal to each reader the unique gifts he or she has to give-including kindness, ideas, advice, attention, hope, and more-and the many ways you can benefit from giving them, from better health to better job prospects |
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The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life
Author: Jim Loehr In The Power of Story, the bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves -- and, most importantly, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. |
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The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive
Author: Michael Fullan Fullan (Leading in a Culture of Change) argues that the world is too complex for any theory to possess unassailable certainty, and leaders should shy away from relying on a single blueprint for success. To help managers navigate change, Fullan share six secrets designed to help with large-scale reform: Love Your Employees, Connect Peers with Purpose, Capacity Building Prevails, Learning Is the Work, Transparency Rules and Systems Learn, and provides guidelines for making these secrets work. |
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The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know
Author: James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner A fresh look at what it means to lead from two of the biggest names in leadership. In their engaging, personal, and bold new book, Kouzes and Posner reveal ten time-tested truths that show what every leader must know, the questions they must be prepared to answer, and the real-world issues they will likely face. Based on thirty years of research, more than one million responses to Kouzes and Posner's leadership assessment, and the questions people most want leaders to answer and communities. |
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The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Author: Tony Schwartz The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we’re both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off. By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we’re neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we’re at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs. |
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Tribes
Author: Seth Godin In Tribes, Seth Godin asks: Who is going to lead us? The Web can do amazing things, but it can't provide leadership. That still has to come from individuals ; people just like you who have passion about something. The explosion in tribes means that anyone who wants to make a difference now has the tools at her fingertips. If you ignore this opportunity, you risk turning into a sheepwalker;someone who fights to protect the status quo at all costs, never asking if obedience is doing you (or your organization) any good. Sheepwalkers don't do very well these days. Tribes will make you think (really think) about the opportunities in leading your fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, or readers. . . . It's not easy, but it's easier than you think. |
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Wellbeing: the Five Essential Elements
Author: Tom Rath, Ph.D & James K. Harter This book shows the five most important elements of a life well-lived and how they are interdependent. Contrary to what many people believe, well-being isn't just about happiness. Nor is it about only wealth, success, or physical health. In fact, focusing on any one of these elements in isolation ends in frustration and a sense of failure. When Gallup researchers interviewed people around the world about their well-being, they discovered five elements that shape the way people evaluate their lives. "Well-Being" is the first book aimed at a general audience that shows the interconnections among those elements and how they cannot be considered independently. The book provides readers with a unique, research-based approach to improving well-being in all aspects of their lives. |
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Wellness Leadership: Creating a Supportive Work Environment for Healthier Land More Productive Employees
Author: Judd Allen, PH.D Wellness Leadership explains how you can help your work group become a healthy culture. This guidebook is for managers, wellness committee members and all those interested in effectively promoting healthier and more productive lifestyles. |
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Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships
Author: Ken Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, Jim Ballard What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale? Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home. |