Books

Leadership Resources: Books

Appreciative Inquiry and Strength Based Change

Appreciative Inquiry and Strength Based Change

  • Buckingham M, Clifton D. Now Discover Your Strengths. New York, NY: The Free Press; 2001.
  • Bushe G. Clear Leadership: How Outstanding Leaders Make Themselves Understood Cut through Organizational Mush and Help Everyone Get Real at Work. Palo Alto, CA: Davies Black Publishing; 2001.
  • Hammond, S. The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry. Plano, TX: Thin Book.
  • Whitney D, et al. Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring the Best of Your Team. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.; 2004.

Association Leadership

Association Leadership

  • Blanken RL, Liff A. Facing the Future: A Report on the Major Trends and Issues Affecting Associations. Washington, DC: ASAE; 1999.
  • Levin M. Retention Wars: The New Rules of Engagement. Columbia, MD: B.A.I., Inc.; 2005.
  • Levin M. The Gift of Leadership. Columbia, MD: B.A.I., Inc.; 1997.

Coaching

Coaching

  • D'Amour C. Go Team Go!: Strategies for Leading Today's Teams to Victory. Ann Arbor, MI: Jump Start Books; 2005
  • Goldsmith M, Lyons L, Freas A, Witherspoon R. Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer; 2000.

Change and Leadership

Change and Leadership

  • Freidman, T. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century. New York, Farra, Straus, and Giroux; 2005.
  • Gladwell M. Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Little Brown and Company; 2000.
  • Kotter J. Leading Change. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press; 1996.
  • Senge P. The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations. New York, NY: Doubleday Publishing; 1999.
  • Senge P. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York, NY: Doubleday Publishing; 1990.

Communications

Communications

  • Scott, S. Fierce Conversations. New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Group; 2002.

Multigenerational Leadership

Multigenerational Leadership

  • D'Amour C. How to Turn Generation Me Into Active Members of Your Association. Ann Arbor, MI: Jump Start Books; 1999.
  • Brinkerhoff’s book.

Leadership

Leadership

  • Bennis, WG. On Becoming a Leader. Reading, MA: Perseus; 1994.
  • Cashman K. Leadership From the Inside Out: Seven Pathways to Mastery. Provo, UT: Executive Excellence; 1998.
  • Collins J. Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. New York, NY: HarperBusiness; 2005.
  • Collins J. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't. New York, NY: HarperBusiness; 2001.
  • Covey S. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. Free Press; 2004.
  • DePree M. Leadership is An Art. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press; 1987.
  • Goleman D. Emotional Intelligence. New York, NY: Bantom Books; 1995.
  • Gratton L. Living Strategy. Great Britain: Prentice Hall; 2000.
  • Hunt M. Dream Makers: Putting Vision and Values to Work. Palo Alto, CA: Executive Excellence; 1998.
  • Kouzes J, Pozner. The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 1995.
  • Maxwell, John C. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers; 1999.
  • McCauley CD, Van Velsor E. The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 1998.
  • O'Toole J. Leadership A to Z. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishing; 1999.
  • Sanborn M. You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader. New York, NY: Random House, Inc.; 2006.
  • Peters T. Reinventing Work, the Project. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf Inc.; 1999.
  • Watkins M. The First 90 Days. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press; 2003.

Self as Leader

Self as Leader

  • Goleman D. Emotional Intelligence. New York, NY: Bantom Books; 1995.
  • George BW, Sims P. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. 2007.