Reading Lists
This week’s choice - a must have in your library: Time to Think : Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Scroll down for my summary reading lists on Management, Women in Management And Life Value. Authors are listed alphabetically. Scroll over the title to go directly to Amazon.com to see more information or to purchase the resource.
Management Reading List:
Abrashoff, Captain D. Michael, It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Bennis, Warren, Old Dogs, New Tricks: Warren Bennis on Creativity and Collaboration
Bennis, Warren and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius
Bennis, Warren, Geeks and Geezers
Bennis, Warren, On Becoming A Leader: The Leadership Classic–Updated And Expanded
Bennis, Warren, Managing People Is Like Herding Cats: Warren Bennis on Leadership
Blanchard, Ken and Sheldon Bowles, Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
Buckingham, Marcus, Go Put Your Strengths to Work Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
Buckingham, Marcus, The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
Buckingham, Marcus and Curt Coffman, MUST READ! First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
Buckingham, Marcus and Donald Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths
Buzan, Tony, Mind Maps at Work: How to Be the Best at Your Job and Still Have Time to Play
Byrne, Rhonda, The Secret
Cable, Daniel, MUST READ! Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce
Collins, Jim, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
Cottrell, David, great book on mentoring - Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss
Dauten, Dale, MUST READ! The Gifted Boss : How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employees
Dauten, Dale, Better Than Perfect: How Gifted Bosses And Great Employees Can Lift the Performance of Those Around Them
Dauten, Dale, (Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success
Farber, Steve, MUST READ! The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World
Farber, Steve, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
Freedman, David H., Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines
Freiberg, Kevin and Jackie, MUST READ! Boom!: 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual
Friedman, Thomas, Updated & Expanded 2006 Edition of the World Is Flat
Gitomer, Jeffrey, MUST READ! Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Them Love You, Keep You Coming Back, and Tell Everyone They Know
Gluckman, Sandy Ph.D. Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?
Godin, Seth, Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
Godin, Seth, MUST READ! Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Godin, Seth (editor) The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
Hartman, Dr. Taylor, MUST READ! The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Life
Heath, Chip and Dan, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Kelley, Tom and Jonathan Littman, The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm
Kline, Nancy, Time to Think : Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Maisel, Eric, A GREAT RESOURCE The Creativity Book: A Year’s Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
Maxwell, John C., Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life andWork
Maxwell, John C., The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
Michalko, Michael, MUST READ! Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
Nelson, Bob, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees
Nelson, Bob, 1001 Ways to Energize Employees
Patterson, Kerry, Crucial Confrontations
Peters, Tom, MUST READ! The Pursuit of Wow!
Peters, Tom, Reimagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
Peters, Tom, The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness
Phillips, Jan, The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader
Poscente, Vincent, Great Read! The Ant and the Elephant
Rath, Tom, YOU NEED THIS ONE…EVERYONE NEEDS THIS ONE! StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths
Sanborn, Mark, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference
Sanborn, Mark, The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
Shultz, Howard, Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Sutton, Robert, Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company
Zemke, Ron, Claire Raines and Bob Filipczak, Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace
Women’s Resources Reading List:
Brizendine, Louann, MD, The Female Brain
Coughlin, Linda, Ellen Wingard, Keith Hollihan, editors, MUST READ!
Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership
Evans, Gail, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn
Frankel, Dr. Lois P., Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Frankel, Dr. Lois P., MUST READ! See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work
Helgesen, Sally, MUST READ! The Female Advantage
Kline, Nancy, Time to Think : Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Moir, Anne and Bill, Why Men Don’t Iron: The Fascinating and Unalterable Differences Between Men and Women
Myers, Dee Dee, Why Women Should Rule the World
Schulz, Dr. Mona Lisa, The New Feminine Brain: Developing Your Intuitive Genius
Swiss, Deborah J., The Male Mind at Work: A Woman’s Guide to Working with Men
Life Reading List:
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Albom, Mitch, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Blanchard, Ken and Melinda, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life
Byrne, Rhonda, The Secret
Farber, Steve, MUST READ! The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World
Hartman, Dr. Taylor, MUST READ! The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Life
Hartman, Dr. Taylor, Color Your Future: Using the Character Code to Enhance Your Life
Kersey, Cynthia, Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You
Kipper, Barbara, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
Kline, Nancy, Time to Think : Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
LaRoche, Loretta, Life Is Short, Wear Your Party Pants
Levoy, Gregg, Callings
Kundtz, David, Quiet Mind: One-Minute Retreats from a Busy World
Michalko, Michael, Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
Murphy, Dr. Jospeph, MUST READ! The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Peters, Tom, You’ll be inspired by this one! Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
Phillips, Jan, The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader
Rath, Tom, YOU NEED THIS ONE…EVERYONE NEEDS THIS ONE! StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths
Remen, Rachel Naomi, Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary
Sher, Barbara, Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
St Augustine, John, Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People
Urban, Hal, Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life
Urban, Hal, The 10 Commandments of Common Sense: Wisdom from the Scriptures for People of All Beliefs
Periodicals and Magazines:
Best Life Best Life [1-year]
Fast Company Fast Company
Harvard Management Update - to subscribe go to http://hmu.harvardbusinessonline.org
Health and Fitness Excellence - see trial and get subscription at www.eep.com
Kiplinger Letter - get subscription at www.kiplinger.com
Leadership Excellence - see trial and get subscription at www.eep.com
Personal Excellence - see trial and get subscription at http://www.eep.com/Merchant//newsite/index.html
Selling Power Selling Power
Sales and Service Excellence - see trial and get subscription at http://www.eep.com/Merchant//newsite/index.html
Talent Management - FREE - subscribe at www.talentmgt.com/subscribe
Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal [1-year subscription]
