Recommended Books

Here is a current list of great books to include in your leadership reading repertoire…..

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith 2007

"The biggest challenge in coaching leaders is getting and keeping their attention on their professional development goals..."
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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization - Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright, 2008

"I like that this book shows how great Tribal Leaders are always tuning into the informal networks and underlying culture. .."
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Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done - Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan 2002

"Leaders often confuse execution with tactics but tactics, not informed by strategy are merely actions disguised as progress..."
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Speaking Up: Surviving Executing Presentations - Frederick Gilbert, 2012

"...it truly falls into the category of a must-read for aspiring directors, middle managers, and those who sell to the C-suite occupants. .."
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The Leadership Pipeline - Ram Charan, Steve Drotter, Jim Noel, 2nd Edition 2011

"Every leader can gain an appreciation for his/her current situation and learn what skills and areas of focus are important..."
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The Extraordinary Coach - John H. Zenger and Kathleen Stinnett

"I have personally used the models and framework successfully to design a coaching skills class and highly recommend this book for executive coaches, managers, and others who desire to become high quality business coaches. .."
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t - Jim Collins, 2001

"How do good or even mediocre companies become great companies? This is the question Jim Collins sets out to answer when he researched great companies.."
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Beyond Genius, Innovation & Luck - Allan McCarthy, 2011

"It is imperative that leaders understand what it takes to move from strategies and ideas to commercialization is through creating and sustaining a high performance organization in addition to be innovative..."
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Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard - Chip Heath & Dan Heath

"Overall this book provides a very useful framework for how to make change happen whether you’re an individual wanting to change yourself or a leader of an organization needing to make substantial change. .."
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Our Iceberg is Melting - John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, 2005

"Change happens all around us, It is business…and it is personal. In Our Iceberg is Melting a group of penguins discovers that survival of their colony means they must move off their endangered iceberg and find a new home. .."
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