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Professional Development Lending Library
Leadership Books
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Credibility - How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It by Kouzes and Posner
In this book, the authors explain why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. They provide rich examples of real managers in
action and reveal the six key disciplines that strengthen a leader's credibility.
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
For anyone looking to turn negative energy into positive achievement, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best
in yourself and your team.
Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement by Ed Clint Swindall
In this book you will find a practical framework for successful leadership that works regardless of your role or industry. It's packed with strategies for building a dynamic culture
that engages employees of all levels.
Enlightened Leadership - Getting to the Heart of Change by Ed Oakley and Doug Krug
This is a practical, hands-on guide to breaking through the barriers to organizational change.
Fish! - A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen
Addressing today's most pressing work issues (including employee retention and burnout) FISH! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profound - the hallmarks
of a true business classic.
Fish! Sticks - A Remarkable Way to Adapt to Changing Times and Keep Your Work Fresh
by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul,
and John Christensen
Chock full of easy to grasp examples, this book provides advice that can produce immediate improvement in employee morale, customer satisfaction, and productivity -
for both the short and long term.
Fish! Tales - Real Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life
by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul,
and John Christensen
In Fish! Tales the authors show how the lessons from FISH! were put into practice at businesses both big and small. Anyone who is looking for a motivational tool to help energize
their own workplace should find this book worthwhile.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni's fable of a CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm who takes control of a dysfunctional executive committee offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral
tendencies that he says corrupt teams.
Leadership and Self-Deception - Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
Through an entertaining and highly instructive story, this book shows what self-deception is, how people get trapped in it, how it undermines personal
achievement and the surprising way to solve it.
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner
Companies and organizations don't accomplish great things, people do! This book uses sound research, true principles, and interesting real-life stories to teach specific
skills that each of us needs to be good leaders and better people.
A Leader's Legacy by Kouzes and Posner
Powerful essays on Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage address issues with which today's leaders must grapple - like how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need
loving critics, why leaders can't take trust for granted, and how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.
Leading Without Power - Finding Hope in Serving Community by Max De Pree
De Pree not only provides us with much practical wisdom about creative leading and organizational health, he also nurtures our souls.
The Next Level: Leading Beyond the Status Quo by David Cottrell
What does it take to reach the Next Level? This book answers that question. The Next Level guides you on a journey that will enable you and your organization to move
beyond the status quo, step-by-step… beginning right now.
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
Warren Bennis has long argued that leaders are not born, they are made. With a provocative new epilogue on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today,
this book will inspire the next generation to guide us into the future.
The Power of Ethical Management by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Ethical Management is for everyone who faces ethical dilemmas in their lives. It is also for managers who want to know what they can do to help create
a healthy work environment where people don't have to cheat to win.
Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
Dr. Covey offers insights and guidelines for leading not just to a new understanding of how to increase productivity, but also to an appreciation of the importance
of building personal and professional relationships.
Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf
The true leader is also a seeker - alert to new possibilities, open, listening and ready for whatever develops. This book originated as essays treating servant
leadership as a general principle and the way it has been lived by people.
Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors by Patrick Lencioni
Marketing won't speak to engineering. Sales thinks production hogs the budget. Lencioni addresses these sorts of turf wars through the fictional story of a self-employed consultant who has
to dismantle 'silos' in companies.
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