Books We're Reading and Recommending
Leaders are readers: For its speed, variety, overall stickiness, and capability to connect us with literally billions of people around the world in a nanosecond (nearly all of whom we would never have had the ability to meet any other way), I treasure social media. Moreover, just look at the voice it gives the voiceless—the canvas, palette, brush, and paints it affords people from all walks of life to paint the world anew...
Title: Driftwood: A Modern Fable for Finding Purpose
Author: Walter Nusbaum
Title: Gray Goldfish: Navigating the Gray Areas to Successfully Lead Every Generation
Author: Stan Phelps, Brian Doyle
Title: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Title: Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Author: Adam Grant
Title: The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team
Author: Patrick Lencioni
Title: Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
Author: Chip Heath and Karla Starr
Title: How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters
Author: Michael Bungay Stanier
Title: Idiot, Sojourning Soul: A Post-Secular Pilgrimage
Author: Justin Rosolino
Title: Real Teams Win: What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance
Author: Thomas L. Steding, PhD
Title: Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
Author: Daniel Klein
Title: ELEVATE—Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others
Author: Robert Glazer
Title: FIRESIDE: Seasoned Leaders' Reflections on Work, Life, and Life After Work
Author: Blake Leath
Title: This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Author: Peter Pomerantsev
Title: The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
Author: Scott Eblin
Title: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Author: Marc Brackett, PhD
Title: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Author: Jim Mattis and Bing West
Title: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Author: Bessel van der Kock, M.D.
Title: It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Author: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
Title: Empathy for the Devil: Finding Ourselves in the Villains of the Bible
Author: J.R. Forasteros
Title: Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
Author: David Rock
Title: Whole: What Teachers Need to Help Students Thrive
Author: Rex Miller, Bill Latham, Kevin Baird, and Michelle Kinder
Title: In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture
Author: John R. Childress and Larry E. Senn
Title: Co-Active Coaching: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work and In Life
Author: Henry Kimsley-House, Karen Kimsley-House, Philip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth
Title: The Road to Character
Author: David Brooks
Title: Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want To BE
Author: Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Title: Fools' Names, Fools' Faces
Author: Andrew Ferguson
Title: Small Fry: A Memoir
Author: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Title: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Author: Adam Grant
Title: Unplugged: How Organizations Lose Their Energy and How to Get It Back
Author: Steve Buchholz and Tom Roth
Title: The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss
Author: Ron Adner
Title: Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully
Author: Amanda Blake
Title: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Author: Daniel Coyle
Title: Into Thin Air: The Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Author: Jon Krakauer
Title: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagements for a Complex World
Author: General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army, Retired with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
Title: Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Author: Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams
Title: Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communications
Author: Paul A. Argenti and Courtney M. Barnes
Title: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Author: Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp
Title: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Author: Patrick Lencioni
Title: The Leadership Challenge
Author: James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
Title: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Author: Guy Deutscher
Title: Undead: Revived, Resuscitated, and Reborn
Author: Clay Morgan
Title: Why Don't We Listen Better: Communicating & Connecting in Relationships
Author: Jim Petersen
Title: The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
Author: Gretchen Rubin
Title: The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love—Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
Author: Judson Brewer
Title: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!
Author: Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
Title: Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Author: Sydney Finkelstein
Title: Switch on Your Brain: the Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
Author: Dr. Caroline Leaf
Title: Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Author: Eric R. Kandel
Title: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Hold and Others Come Unstuck
Author: Chip and Dan Heath
Title: I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers
Author: Tim Madigan
Title: Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will
Author: Geoff Colvin
Title: Influence: Science and Practice
Author: Rober B. Cialdini
Title: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J.D. Vance
Title: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Author: Roger Fisher and William Ury
Title: Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation to Cooperation
Author: William Ury
Title: Gain Influence Through Communication: How to Connect with Others and Build Meaningful Relationships
Author: Clay Morgan
Title: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
Author: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Title: Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
Author: Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
Title: Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life
Author: Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Title: Cultivating the Strategic Mind: Growing From Leader to Visionary, Creator, and Architect of Strategy (2nd Edition)
Author: blake leath, phd
