The 5 Levels of Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? John Maxwell discusses how to take your leadership to the next level...all the way to the top!
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork reflection & notes
Why read? Nothing of significance was ever done alone. How do you get your teams operating at optimum capacity?
60 minute CEO reflection & notes
Why read? How can you take your organization to the next level in just 60 minutes? Focus. Get away. Find out.
A Team of Leaders reflection & notes
Why read? Discover why putting your ego aside and developing others will actually free up your time to be a better leader.
The Advantage reflection & notes
Why read? We too often focus on the 'smarts' of our organization vs. the health of it. The Advantage lays out the plan to take your organization to the next step!
Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For reflection & notes
Why read? Relationships are one of the most crucial aspects of successful leadership. Gentry outlines seven 'flips' that will take your leadership to the next level.
The Best Place to Work reflection & notes
Why read? How do you mesh the components of motivation with the demands of the workplace? This book breaks it down in easy-to-implement strategies.
Beyond Talent reflection & notes
Why read? Maxwell tells you why you cannot rely solely on your talent to get you where you want to go. Fourteen, talent maximizing points are outlined in his inspiring style.
Born to Win reflection & notes
Why read? Find the motivation to succeed Zig Ziglar is renowned to inspire! Short and powerful.
Boundaries for Leaders reflection & notes
Why read? Find out if you are enabling success or hindering it as a leader.
Chess Not Checkers reflection & notes
Why read? In parable form, Miller describes four simple, concrete steps to take your organization to high performing. Is your organization playing chess or checkers?
Creativity Inc. reflection & notes
Why read? Pixar has been a leader in creativity and innovation for over 20 years. Discover the ingredients to building a creative culture and organization.
The Energy Bus reflection & notes
Why read? Ten simple rules to leading with positivity and purpose.
Failing Forward reflection & notes
Why read? Are you scared of failing? Why? Shift your mindset with the words of Maxwell and take your leadership, and organization, to the next level.
The Fifth Discipline reflection & notes
Why read? The power of an organization that learns cannot be understated. Discover the seven learning disabilities and the five disciplines of a learning organization.
Find Your Yellow Tux reflection & notes
Why read? Learn mindsets and strategies that took an organization from a struggling baseball to an industry busting entertainment entity.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team reflection & notes
Why read? Lencioni's parable style writing is quick to read and easy to digest but the message is deep. Want to take your team to the next level? Five steps are outlined here.
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions reflection & notes
Why read? Stop barking orders and start asking questions. Don't know which questions to ask? Maxwell does.
Great by Choice reflection & notes
Why read? Your organization needs to be prepared to face bad and good times. All it takes is three pillars and level five ambition.
Hacking Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? The Hacking series always provides easy to implement strategies. All ten hacks presented here can be implemented tomorrow in some capacity.
How to Win Friends and Influence People reflection & notes
Why read? A book that transcends time-81 years-and is as relevant during iPhone times as the Dust Bowl.
The Ideal Team Player reflection & notes
Why read? Discover how to make your hiring practices and team members more productive by seeking out humble, hungry, and smart people.
If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students reflection & notes
Why read? Based on real-life schools and not ivory tower research, this book gives HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of tips, actions, and thoughts for teachers and administrators to implement tomorrow.
Innovative Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? Old-school leadership will not work in the flattened, connected world. You do not hold all the answers and to move forward you must tap into the power of your people.
Leaders Eat Last reflection & notes
Why read? Sinek builds the case for leaders developing teams and growing organizations through putting others first!
Leaders Made Here reflection & notes
Why read? Every organization needs a leadership bench. See why.
Leadership: A Practical Guide reflection & notes
Why read? Twenty six attributes of good leadership make this book a quick, must-read for any current or ascending leader.
The Leadership Challenge reflection & notes
Why read? Kouzes and Posner discuss four easy ways to elevate your leadership potential.
Leadership For A Fractured World reflection & notes
Why read? People and groups are divided for many reasons but leaders are still tasked with taking these different groups onward. How do you bridge the gap?
Leadership On the Line reflection & notes
Why read? Leading through change is tough business. Discover how to stay afloat and even sail through the turbulent times of change.
Leading School Change reflection & notes
Why read? Practicality is what Whitaker is all about when discussing how to identify the best in-roads for implementing change.
Leverage Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? One of the most practical books I have read on educational leadership. This book is full of actions that can be taken immediately to improve your effectiveness as a leader.
Lincoln on Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? Considered the best president of the U.S.A. by many, Lincoln's leadership ideas are still applicable in the age of the iPhone as they were during musket days. "Everybody loves a compliment".
Move Your Bus reflection & notes
Why read? Would you consider yourself a runner, jogger, walker, or rider of your bus? How do you interact and approach each rider? Your bus will only go as fast as the people on it are willing to move.
Never Underestimate Your Teachers reflection & notes
Why read? Jackson discusses how leaders can move ANY teacher to become a master teacher by addressing two simple concepts: skill or will.
Our Iceberg is Melting reflection & notes
Why read? Only six steps to 'get the ball rolling' on changing systems! Written in parable to make it a faster and relatable read.
The People Equation reflection & notes
Why read? How are you going to solve your tough problems with only a few people doing the thinking? People, your people, are the key to your organization's breakthrough.
Shifting the Monkey reflection & notes
Why read? People of influence often get saddled with extra burdens that are not theirs. In a quick, powerful read discover how to get those burdens back to their rightful owners and protect your good people.
The Six Secrets of Change reflection & notes
Why read? Learn how six principles can guide your leadership and organization and why theories are better than practices.
The Social Leader reflection & notes
Why read? If you're in leadership you must understand how to conduct human relationships in a world in which everybody has a megaphone and will use it.
Start with Why reflection & notes
Why read? Simon Sinek's TED talk about the power of WHY is extremely popular. In his book he talks about finding and aligning with purpose.
To Sell is Human reflection & notes
Why read? You are a salesperson. Don't believe it? Discover how everybody is in sales now and how to succeed.
Why read? Seth. Godin. Short. Powerful. Why do people follow you as a leader?
Turn the Ship Around reflection & notes
Why read? Move your organization from Leader-follower to Leader-leader via empowerment and curiosity.
Unconventional Leadership reflection & notes
Why read? Leaders often need to think differently and to do that we need to promote diversity within the organization, but not necessarily the diversity you may think.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There reflection & notes
Why read? Trying to move up the ladder? Wonder why you haven't or how to succeed once you get there? Quit bringing in new behaviors and stop some old behaviors.
Why read? Bring the improv acting power of "Yes, and" to your organization to fight "No, but".