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Book Reports
Age Power: How The 21st Century Will Be Ruled By The New Old by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D.
A-Ha Performance by Douglas Walker with Stephen Sorkin
Are You Ready To Succeed?
Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery In Business and in Life by Srikumar S. Rao
A Spark from Heaven? The Place of Potential in Organizational and Individual Development by Adrian W. Savage
Authentic Leadership - Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George
Building Trust In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life by Robert C. Solomon & Fernando Flores
Business is a Contact Sport by Tom Richardson, Augusto Vidauretta
Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, their Partners, and Children, and all the Clinicians who Treat Them by Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D
Change Your Questions Change Your Life By Marilee G. Adams Ph.D.
Choices: Manage Your Choices and You Will Manage Your Life by Shad Helmstetter
Clients for Life: Evolving from an Expert for Hire to an Extraordinary Advisor relationships by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel
Closing the Leadership Gap by MarieC. Wilson
Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others by James Flaherty
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Confronting Reality:Doing What Matters to Get Things Rightby Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations and bad behavior By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzle
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, & Al Swtizler
Customer Centric Selling by Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project
Elizabeth 1 CEO: Strategic lessons from the leader who built an empire by Alan Axelrod
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt To Manipulate You by Susan Forward PhD
Employed For Life by Frumi Rachel Barr
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell, Thomas Nelson
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
Geeks and Geezers by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas
Generating Buy-In: Mastering the Language of Leadership by Mark S. Walton
Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher & William Ury
Get Off The Fence: 10 + 1 Steps to Help You Make That Big Decision by Rhoda Makoff Ph.D. ND & Jeffrey Makoff Esq.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher & William Ury
Good To Great by Jim Collins
How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox
Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman
Leading With Questions by Michael Marquardt
Learning as a Way of Being by Peter Vaill
Life Skills: Taking Charge of Your personal and Professional Growth by Richard J. Leider
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
Know How - The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t by Ram Charan
Making Your Dreams Come True by Marcia Wieder
Managing Conflict by Richard Walton - Harvard School of Business
Missed Fortune by Douglas Andrew
Monday Morning Leadership by David Cottrell
Monday Morning Leadership for Women by Valerie Sokolosky
Negotiating for Your Life: New Success Strategies for Women by Nicole Schapiro
Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman: What Men Know about Success that Women Need to Learn by Gale Evans
Quiet Leadershipby David Rock
Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life by Barbara Stanny
Small Books with Big Messages by Frumi Rachel Barr
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa
Take Yourself to the Top by Laura Berman Fortgang
The 3 Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders by E. Ted Prince
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale
The Bear Essentials of Business By Maxine Carter
The E Myth by Michael E. Gerber
The EQ Edge by Steven J. Stein, Ph.D. and Howard E. Book, M.D.
The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book: Everything you need to know to put your EQ to work By Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
The Extraordinary Leader By John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman
The Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Game of Work by Charles A. Coonradt
The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss
The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders
The Luck Factor by Dr. Richard Wiseman
The New Agreements of the Workplace by David Dibble
The New Law of Demand and Supply by Rick Kash
The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham
The Power of Feedback: 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from Others Into Personal and Professional Change by Joseph R. Folkman
The Power of Focus Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
The Referral of a Lifetime: The Networking System That Produces Bottom-Line Results Every Day! by Tim Templeton For a FREE copy of the book and more information about the Keep-In Touch software, created to help you keep in touch with your contacts. Visit http://www.Keep-InTouch.com or call (877) 321-6500 x 206.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Story of Your Life by Mandy Aftel
The Velveteen Principles: A Guide to Becoming Realby Toni Raiten-D’Antonio
The Virtues of Aging by Jimmy Carter
This Year I Will by M.J. Ryan
Trust Yourself: How to Stop feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less EffortM. J. Ryan
Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey
Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion by George G. Thompson, PhD & Jerry B. Jenkins
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein
Winning by Jack Welch
You’re in Charge: Now What? by Thomas Neff and James Citrin
Your Money or Your Life: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki RobinCrucialConfrontations.pdf
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Book Recommendations
Action Coaching by David L. Dotlich & Peter C.Cairo
Adult Years by Frederic M. Hudson
Beyond the Wall of Resistance by Rick Maurer
Co-Active Coaching by Laura Whitworth henry Kimsey-House, Henry & Phil Sandahl
Designing Conflict Management Systems by Cathy A. Costantino & Christina Sickles Merchant
Developing High Performance People by Mink, Oscar G. Mink, Keith Q. Owen, & Barbara P. Mink
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Executive Coaching: An Appreciative Approach by William Berquist, Kenneth Merritt, and Steven Phillips
Executive EQ by Robert K. Cooper
Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Future Search by Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff
Getting to Resolution by Stewart Levine
Half Time by Bob Buford
Handbook of Coaching by Frederic M. Hudson
High Performance by Bob Davies
Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflicts and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans and Sherry Suib Cohen
Leading at the Speed of Growth by Katherine Catlin and Jana Matthews
Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel
Life Launch by Frederic M. Hudson
Living Your Best Life by Laura Berman Fortgang
Managing Transitions by William Bridges
Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Secrets of a CEO Coach by D.A. Benton
Soar with Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton, and Paula Nelson
Strategic Renaissance: New Thinking and Innovative Tools to create Great Corporate Strategies Using Insights from History and Science by Evan Matthew Dudik
Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworski
The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
The Business Coach by James S. Doyle
The Heart of Coaching by Thomas G. Crane
The Innovators Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
The Longevity Theory by David Mahoney and Richard Restak M.D.
The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships by Lois J. Zachary
The Power of Will by Anthony Paranello
The Purpose of Your Life by Carol Adrienne
The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail by Jean-Francois Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Skilled Helper by Gerrard Egan
The Sky is Not the Limit by Bob Davies
The Team Coach by Donna Deeprose
The Tipping Point: How Little Things can make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider
Visioning: Ten Steps to designing the Life of Your Dreams by Lucia Capacchione, PhD
What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles
Whistle While You Work by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro
When Anger Hurts: How to Change Painful feelings Into Positive Action by Matthew McKay et al
Who Moved My Cheese by Spenser Johnson M.D.
You Just Don’t Understand. Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
TheEmotionalIntelligenceQuickBook.pdfTheExtraordinaryLeader.pdfChangeYourQuestionsChangeYourLife.pdfTheSecret.pdfTheSecret.pdfCustomerCentricSelling.pdfEmotionalBankAccounts1.pdfAuthenticLeadership2008.pdf
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