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"Everything we know so far."
- An ad for Porsche
One of our value–adds is the wide array of information, points of view, and approaches that we bring to the table. Here, we are sharing some of our favorite and oft–used resources with you. If there are others you would like to see, please email us with your suggestions.
First, a reading list (below), arranged alphabetically by author, of nearly 50 books covering topics from management development to managing change. We will update and expand this list periodically.
Second, a link to The Harvard Business Review. This is a treasure trove of material and a monthly must-read.
A link to The New York Times is next. We believe it is important to have broad exposure to politics, economics, world events, business, arts, and culture.
Business Week is another sound source of data and perspective, so here is a link.
Finally, if you are interested in finding out more about the coaching discipline or related programs, you may link to The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
| NAME | BOOK TITLE | DESCRIPTION |
| Adrienne, Carol | The Purpose of Your Life | How to recognize your purpose as it plays out in your livelihood and personal life. |
| Aftel, Mandy | The Story of Your Life | Understand the "plots" in your life about love, mastery, and loss so you can rewrite them and leave those negative, self-fulfilling prophecies behind. |
| Berman, Michael & Brown, David | The Power of Metaphor: Storytelling & Guided Journeys for Teacher, Trainers, & Therapists | All about guided imagery. |
| Block, Peter | Flawless Consulting | From the master of consulting. |
| Bridges, William | Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change | Change is disruptive for organizations but managers can help people make the transitions. |
| Bridges, William | The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments | A personal view of loss and the adjustment to it. |
| Bridges, William | Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes | A transition roadmap to help us better cope with change. |
| Cameron, Julia | The Artist's Way | Stimulating creativity for the non-artist. |
| Cameron, Julia | The Sound of Paper: Starting From Scratch | Using a process of constant renewal, we can clear our minds & equip our souls to feed our creativity. |
| Cameron, Julia | Transitions: Prayers & Declarations for a Changing Life | Prayers and reflections in times of crisis and transformation. |
| Carson, Rick | Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way | A humorous and enjoyable tool that uses novel ways to explore the inner conflict that may be undermining you. |
| Carter, Jimmy | The Virtues of Aging | From personal experience, he tackles the prospect of aging in a productive, active, and hopeful way. |
| Cashman, Kevin | Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life | To grow as a leader, you need to grow as a person. |
| Chatterjee, Debashis | Leading Consciously: A Pilgrimage Toward Self-Mastery | Leadership from the inside out is the imperative for organizations. |
| Cooperrider, David, et als. (editors) | Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development | The end of "problem solving" as we know it: reframing organization development "problems" as opportunities. |
| Csikszentmihalyi, Mihali | Finding Flow | Achieving flow means that life can't be too easy nor can it be too hard. Finding the balance. |
| Deeprose, Donna | The Team Coach | A prescriptive guide to self-managed teams. |
| Denning, Stephen | The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations | How to use storytelling. Guess what: it's told as a story. |
| Dychtwald, Kenneth | Age Power | Quick: call your financial planner! What lies ahead for the boomers. |
| Egan, Gerard | The Skilled Helper | Clinically-focused but rich in teaching the coaching process. |
| Frankl, Victor | Man's Search for Meaning | Frankl survived three years in Nazi concentration camps. "The will to meaning" was, and is, the key. |
| Goleman, Daniel | Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ | Self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy at work. |
| Hargrove, Robert | Masterful Coaching | All about transformational change in organizations. |
| Henning, Joel | The Future of Staff Groups | Make sure ahead of time that you're in synch with your clients. |
| Hesselblein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall;Somerville, Iain (editors) | Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results | The culture and leadership that promote innovative organizations. |
| Hesselblein, Frances & Johnston, Rob (editors) | On Leading Change | How the pros do it, or suggest we do it. |
| Hill, Linda | On Becoming A Manager | Making a successful transition from managing yourself to managing others. |
| Hudson, Frederic | The Adult Years | Understanding the decades of our lives and planning productively for living them. |
| Hudson, Frederic | The Handbook of Coaching | An excellent, comprehensive coaching resource guide with lots of ideas and a great bibliography. |
| Hudson, Frederic & McLean, Pamela | LifeLaunch | A concrete time-out to re-examine your life and create a plan to go forward. Helpful models on adult change and renewal. |
| Kouzes, James, & Posner, Barry | The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations | A workable, logical model that takes the mystery out of leadership. |
| Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark | Metaphors We Live By | Metaphor is embedded in language and language is how we live. |
| Logan, David & King, John | The Coaching Revolution: How Visionary Managers are Using Coaching to Empower People & Unlock Their Full Potential | How to coach the people you manage - not dictate to them - to get the results you need. |
| Maister, David; Green, Charles; Galford, Robert | The Trusted Advisor | Earning the trust and confidence of clients. |
| Niemela, Cynder & Lewis, Rachel | Leading High Impact Teams | A prescriptive approach to creating high-performing teams. |
| O'Neill, Mary Beth | Executive Coaching: With Backbone and Heart | Executive coaching methodology. |
| Owen, Nick | The Magic of Metaphor: 77 Stories for Teachers, Trainers, & Thinkers | All sorts of stories sorted by topic and how you can use them. |
| Personnel Decisions, Inc. (published by) | The Successful Manager's Handbook: Development Suggestions for Today's Managers | Tangible skills and activities to build management competence in all the major areas. |
| Peters, Tom | Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution | Radical then and applicable now. |
| Pink, Daniel | Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself | The changing nature of where we work, how we work, and for whom. |
| Robinson, Bryan | Chained to the Desk | Workaholism: you can't go cold turkey because you still need to work, but it needs to be treated. |
| Ruiz, Don Miguel | The Four Agreements | Getting rid of self-limiting beliefs. |
| Schuster, John | Answering Your Call | How to live your deepest purpose. Every day. |
| Schwartz, Peter | The Art of the Long View | Tangible scenario planning to identify the what-ifs: the probable and the improbable. |
| Ulrich, Dave; Zenger, Jack; Smallwood, Norm | Results-Based Leadership | Translating leadership attributes into bottom-line results. |
| Vaill, Peter | Learning As a Way of Being | Go beyond training and engage people in life-long learning. |
| Waterman, Robert | The Renewal Factor: How the Best Get and Keep the Competitive Edge | How to institutionalize flexibility and look at new possibilities to reinvigorate people and organizations. |
| Weisbord, Marvin & Janoff, Sandra | Future Search | An intense group process to get all the stakeholders in the room at the same time to plan for the long-term. |
| Zander, Rosamund & Benjamin | The Art of Possibility | Banish hopelessness from your life and embrace a different way of looking at things |
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