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Resources

Here is a list of books, organized by the Integrated Leadership DisciplinesTM focus, that we frequently refer to our clients:

Discern

  • Start with Why by Simon Sinek
  • Getting to Yes, Negotiating Agreement without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni

Execute

  • EXECUTION: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
  • Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen and Les Hewitt
  • Quality is Free by Phillip Crosby

Align

  • First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  • Soup, A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
  • The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham
  • The Wisdom of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
  • Zapp – The Lightening of Empowerment by William Byham and Jeff Cox

Balance

  • The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
  • First Things First by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill
  • The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
  • How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton

General

  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
  •  Smart Questions: The Essential Strategy for Successful Managers by Dorothy Leeds
  • The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
  • The Fred Factor: How Passion in your Work Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary by Mark Sanborn
  • The LEADERSHIP PIPELINE: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter and James Noel
  • The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore…Habit by Neale Martin
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  • 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
  • You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader by Mark Sanborn

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