Quick Reads
Articles on Executive Coaching & Leadership
What CEOs Really Want from Coaching by Gretchen Gavett
This article is from a Stanford University/The Miles Group survey where 200 CEOs, board directors and other senior executives were asked about how they see leadership and development. Read the article
The Neuroscience of Leadership by David Rock
This article presents ideas about breakthroughs in brain research and how these inform processes of organizational transformation and change. Read the article
Books on Leadership
Leadership Books
by Galinsky, A. & Schweitzer, M.
What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate with others.
Workplace Bullying: Symptoms and Solutions
by Noreen Tehrani
Is bullying really that bad? Why do some people just watch it happening? How do you know if it is bullying or strong management? What kind of leaders are able to create positive working environments? The effects of bullying on organizations and individuals can be devastating and can adversely affect both the workers themselves and the productivity of the organisation that they work for.
Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges
Written by Mary Beth O’Neill
In this book, Mary Beth O’Neill outlines the idea that leadership is contextually located within an organizational system, and that results-oriented leadership requires both backbone and heart to obtain the desired business results. This book is rife with concrete examples and stands as one of executive coaching’s classic resources.
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Written by Edwin Friedman
This book examines the idea that results-oriented leadership is comprised of both strong self differentiation and meaningful connection. Edwin Friedman uses systems theory to extrapolate his theory and expresses the need for strong leaders to take our society forward through the tough decisions and challenges of our 21st century.
Personal Growth
Good Reads for Self Reflection and Development
The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
If you are finding health-improvement to be a challenging quest, you are not alone. Research suggests that currently, fewer than three percent of US adults are healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way. Despite unprecedented investments of time, energy, and money, the vast majority of people who chase health and happiness in our culture don’t ever achieve them. Yet somehow, against all odds, a few healthy oddballs do. Some of them even make it look easy. The question is: How? Check it out on Audible
In Praise of Slow: Challenging the Cult of Speed
By Carl Honore
Groups of people are developing a recipe for living better in a fast-paced, modern environment by striving for a new balance between fast and slow. In an entertaining and hands-on investigation of this new movement, Honore takes us from a Tantric sex workshop in a trendy neighbourhood in London, England to Bra, Italy, the home of the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements. He examines how we can continue to live productive lives by embracing the tenets of the slow movement.
Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding
By William R. Miller
Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience.
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