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Resources

Information is meant to be shared and the following is a list of resources we have put together.  They are great reads for personal benefit and if you get your team to read it together the benefits are enormous.  We can facilitate book discussions - which is a great way for everyone to participate as equals.


Business

  • The E-Myth: Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it - Michael Gerber
  • Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • Why the Mighty Fall – Jim Collins
  • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done – Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
  • Confronting Reality, Doing What Matters to Get Things Right – Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan


Leadership

  • The Leadership Challenge – Kouzes and Posner
  •  Encouraging the Heart – Kouzes and Posner
  • The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader
  • First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers do Differently – Gallup Press, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  • Principle Centered Leadership – Steven R Covey
  • Andy Stanley Leadership Podcasts


Organizational Health/Leadership

  • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business – Patrick Lencioni.  If you enjoy a good business fable, read the following 5 books that make up "the Advantage":
  •  5 Dysfunctions of a Team
  •  4 Obsessions of a CEO
  •  Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars
  •  Death by Meeting
  •  Getting Naked: The 3 Fears that Sabotage Client Loyalty


  • The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues – Lencioni
  • Working Together – Personality-Centered Approach to Management – Isachsen & Berens


Leadership / Relationships / Marketing

  • Speed of Trust  - Steven M.R. Covey


Time Management

  • Never Check Email in the Morning (Making Work Work) – Julie Morgenstern
  • The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination – Neil Fiore


Negotiations/Relationships/Communications

  • Power of a Positive No –William Ury
  • Getting to Yes – William Ury
  • Getting Past No – William Ury


Office Efficiency/Communications

  • The Hamster Revolution – Mike Song  (It’s about email)


Networking/Marketing/Sales

  • Hello My Name is Scott – Scott Ginsberg
  • Solution Selling – Michael Bosworth
  • Strategic Selling - Robert B. Miller and Stephen E. Heiman


Personal Development

  • Strengths Finders  - Tom Rath, Gallup Press
  • MBTI Self Assessment
  • DISC Self Assessment
  • Coach Yourself to a New Career – Talane Miedaner

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