Leadership & Executive Development Books

The following reading list is provided for your convenience along with the opportunity to purchase these books through the Amazon Web sites. Titles in Canadian currency are represented by the Canadian flag, while titles in American currency are represented by the American flag.

You may be encouraged to read certain books at different stages of the consulting process.

	The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
	Peter M. Senge, Founder and Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan Management has found a means of creating a learning organization. He draws the blueprints for an organization where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is et free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.
	The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

	The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
	A step-by-step guide to establishing learning organizations within existing companies functions as a participative workbook, with exercises for both individuals and teams, suggested approaches and ideas, and success stories....
	The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

	Working With Emotional Intelligence
	A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial to your career. This book is comprehensively researched, crisply written and packed with fascinating case histories of triumphs, disasters and dramatic turnarounds. The secrets of success is not what they taught you in school, the single most important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence.
	Working With Emotional Intelligence

	Enabling Knowledge Creation : How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation
	This book gives managers the tools to apply the power of knowledge creation. It is very practical and action oriented. It is full of useful frameworks and suggestions as well as case studies of successful companies in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
	Enabling Knowledge Creation : How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation

	The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations
	Emphasizing the critical role of leadership in human organizations, a leadership handbook offers guidelines for business, government, education, and community sectors that take into account the ever-changing needs of modern-day life. From a research base of 60,000 leaders and constituents, this book is insightful and jargon-free. You'll learn the 5 fundamental practices of leadership, the 10 commitments these practices embody, and very practical exercises to integrate true leadership into your day-to-day life. A MUST if you want to make the transition from manager to leader.
	The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations

	Synchronicity : The Inner Path of Leadership
	"Synchronicity illustrates that leadership is about the release of human possibilities, about enabling others to break free of limits-created organizationally or self-imposed. Although this book describes the author's personal journey, it contains profound messages about organizational learning and effectiveness." This book was sparked by the discussions attorney Joe Jaworski had with his father, special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels. The author maintains that true leadership creates a domain in which people become ever more capable and "predictable miracles" can happen.
	Synchronicity : The Inner Path of Leadership

	The Last Word on Power : Re-Invention for Leaders and Anyone Who Must Make the Impossible Happen
	Today's leaders are reinventing everything but themselves, and this is why so many attempts to revolutionize business fail. The last word on power is the key method in reinventing executives so they can take on "a mission impossible" based on a course designed and run exclusively for the past fifteen years by Tracy Goss. Goss's unique methodology shows how "you can put at risk the success you have achieved for the 'possibility' you can be." She shows how you can be at home in an environment in which you are constantly surrounded by threats, and how to transcend the ordinary so that you can make the impossible happen.
	The Last Word on Power : Re-Invention for Leaders and Anyone Who Must Make the Impossible Happen

	The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries With Their Feet on the Ground
	Gay & Kate gather the wisdom of one hundred top businesspeople, explaining the twelve qualities of leaders, how to make intuitive decisions, how to think ahead, and the importance of creativity, responsibility, and communication. This is a fast, yet thoughtful read with great real-life stories.
	The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries With Their Feet on the Ground

	The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
	Robert Fritz outlines an exciting and different approach to using creativity in everyday life. He shows that creativity is not a special gift given to the very few, but a skill that can be learned in order to change and improve every aspect of life. A classic book!
	The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

	The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
	This book offers valuable advice in the fine art of building teams for high performance results. The authors provide real and disguised examples along with specific recommendations and offer useful ideas for balancing work responsibilities, executive egos, communications and skills.
	The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

	The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!
	The common denominator/bottom line for both the professional service firm and the individual or the Brand You is: the project. And for the cool individual in the cool professional service firm there is only one answer: the cool project. Learn how to transform your current projects into wow projects-if you dare!
	The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!

	Team Talk : The Power of Language in Team Dynamics
	In the tradition of the works of Deborah Tannen, Team Talk analyzes team conversations and their organizational contexts to explain why cross-functional teamwork is so challenging for professional employees. Drawing on interviews and observations of teams in Fortune 200 companies, Donnellon lets readers listen in on actual team conversations to explore the inherent paradoxes of teamwork.
	Team Talk : The Power of Language in Team Dynamics