BOOKS
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most – Stone, Patton, Heen and Fisher
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when Stakes are High – Patterson, Greeny, McMillan, Switler
- Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength – Diana McLain Smith
- Working with Emotional Intelligence –Daniel Goleman
- Now Discover your Strengths –Buckingham, Donald, O’Clifton
- Top Grading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People –Bradford D. Smart
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t –James C. Collins
- Pitch Like A Girl: How a Woman can be Herself and Still Succeed – Ronna Lichtenberg
- SPIN Selling – Neil Rackham
- Who Am I: The 16 basic Desires that Motivate our Actions and Define our Personalities –Steven Reiss
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey
- Living Leadership: A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes – Binney, Wilke and Williams
- Why should anyone be led by you? What it takes to be an Authentic Leader –Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
- Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
- The Leadership Challenge – Kouzes and Posner
- Transformational Leadership – Bernard M Bass and Ronald E Riggis
- Transforming Leadership – James MacGregor Burns
- Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence – Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee
- First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers do Differently – Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
- The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of Leadership – David R Caruso and Peter Salovey
- Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More than IQ – Daniel Goleman
- Working with Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
- Maverick! The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace – Ricado Semler
- Principle Centered Leadership – Stephen R Covey
- Managing Change and Making it Stick – Roger Plant
- The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything – Stephen R. Covey
- Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
- The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer – John Smythe
- Switch – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! – Marshall Goldsmith
- Generations Insights – Cam Marston
- The Essential Enneagram – Daniels & Price
- Strengthsfinder 2.0 – Tom Rath
- Drive – Daniel H. Pink
- Presence – Amy Cuddy
- Brief – Joseph McCormack
TED Talks:
- Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
- Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe
- Daniel Pink: The puzzle of motivation
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
- Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes you are
- Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
- Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness, and spaghetti sauce
- Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
- Scott Dinsmore: How to find the work you love
- Bel Pesce: 5 ways to kill your dreams
- Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads
- Guy Winch: The case for emotional hygiene
- Carol Dweck: The power of believing you can improve
- Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit!
- Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree
- Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
Quotes
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.”
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”
“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
