RECOMMENDED BOOKS & ARTICLES ON LEADERSHIP

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Books

NEW - Decent People, Decent Company, How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life, by Bob and Lyn Turknett.  Based on the Leadership Character Model and illustrated by examples from their 20 years of experience working with executives.

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• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

• Five Frogs on a Log: A CEO's Field Guide...
  
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of...
  
• The Leader of the Future: New Visions,...
  
• The Organization of the Future (Drucker...
  
• The Community of the Future (Drucker...
  
• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How...
  
• Polarity Management: Identifying and...
  
• Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale...
  
• The Leadership Challenge, Third Edition
  
• Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose...
  
• How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way...
  
• Building Cross-Cultural Competence: How...
  
• Finding Flow: The Psychology of...
  
• Leading Quietly
  
• The Fifth Discipline
  
• Results-Based Leadership
  
• First, Break All the Rules: What the...
  
• 1001 Ways to Energize Employees
  
• Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader.
  

• On Becoming a Leader
• Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest.
  
• Leadership Is an Art.
  
• Managing for the Future.
  
• Getting it Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge.
  
• Working with Emotional Intelligence.
  
• Leading the Revolution.
  
• Leadership Without Easy Answers.
  
• The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era.
  
• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership.
  
• Virtual Leadership: Secrets from the Round Table for the Multi-Site Manager.
  
• Credibility.
  
• The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations.
  
• Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders.
• Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change.
• Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

• The Female Brain

• Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

• Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

• Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

• Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right

• Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

• Managing the Unexpected: Resillient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

• You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

• The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow

• The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

• The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

• Now, Discover Your Strengths

• Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life

• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

• Leading Change

• Corporate Culture and Performance

Articles

• Leading With an Open Heart

• Executive Coaching: How and When to Use It
• The Vision/Democracy Paradox and the Limits of Participatory Management.

 

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