Shannon Bruce, Executive Coach and Group Leader of Excell Puget Sound Kitsap has reviewed her top three all-time books on leadership.
Shift: A Guide-book
to Above-the-Line Positive Thinking—Cathy & Gary Hawk
I highly recommend this book as a must read resource to
create a culture of positivity among leaders and teams. Because this book is
based on how to improve your engagement with self and others, it’s applicable
for all types of ecosystems and will benefit individuals, families and
companies. You will learn a new operating system for interacting with yourself
and others that shifts the focus away from negative thinking and drained energy
to positive thoughts that restore well-being, vitality and results. The book is
both context and content rich, providing the brain science behind the work,
while providing instructions on how to use the tool to support ongoing and
sustainable behavior change. The greatest impact of this book is that it will
support you in taking ownership of your own thoughts and energy to increase
your vitality, deepen your relationships with individuals and teams and improve
the quality of your outcomes in both life and work.
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a
Thriving Organization Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
People are wired to be in relationship and as a result
automatically form tribes. Each tribe has a unique culture that thinks, feels
and acts a particular way. This book provides a solid framework for
understanding the culture of the five tribal cultures, as named by the authors,
to supports leaders in expanding their own leadership capacity as well as
understanding how to engage and interact with others at the stage of culture
they are operating. The natural result is teams and organizations thrive as you
learn now to leverage the culture of the tribes you are interacting, either at
home or at work.
The Speed of Trust:
The One Thing that Changes Everything—Stephen M.R. Covey
Trust acts as an exponential dividend that accelerates
results. This book is a comprehensive resource that looks at trust through
multiple lenses starting with self-trust, relationship trust and stakeholder
trust (organizational, market and stakeholder trust). It also explores how to
develop a solid foundation of trust by strengthening the four cores of
credibility which include integrity and intent (character) along with
capabilities and results (competencies). As the title suggests, this book will
change everything.
Lauren Owen, Co-founder and Partner, Redpoint Succession and Leadership Coaching, and Group Leader of Excell Puget Sound SouthSound Group reviews her top 3 books of all times:
Lauren Owen, Co-founder and Partner, Redpoint Succession and Leadership Coaching, and Group Leader of Excell Puget Sound SouthSound Group reviews her top 3 books of all times:
I like this book because Deans takes a different approach to
family business. Dean’s view? If the majority of your wealth is tied up in your
family business, treat it like the important investment it is. Don’t assume
that the best thing for your kids (or the business) is having them work in it
(and eventually lead it in the future). Deans advocates having yearly tough
conversations between you and your successors about what each wants out of the
business, including if and when the business should be sold. He includes a list
of the questions that should be asked and answered by both parties. Told in a
story format, it’s an easy read.
Decisive: How to Make
Better Choices in Life and Work, by Chip and Dan Heath
The Heath brothers have taken the best of existing research
on decisions-making and boiled it down into a four step process. I liked this
book so much that I bought it for all my Excell group members, who now
incorporate many of the points from the book into how they make decisions (and
how they coach each other).
Land on Your Feet,
Not on Your Face: A Guide to Building Your Leadership Platform, by Jim Hessler
with Steve Motenko
Written by former Excell facilitator and current Boss Show
Host, Jim Hessler, this book is entertaining, inspirational and practical. Each
chapter, or Plank, starts with a case study and incorporates real life stories
from the author’s background in corporate leadership with key points from the
best of current psychological studies in leadership effectiveness. The reader
is challenged in each plank to apply the principals into his or her leadership
practice with assignments called “Making It Real.”
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