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| Leta's Foundational Leadership Reading List: |
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Revitalize Your Corporate Culture by Ashby, Franklin
Powerful Ways to Transform Your Company into a High-Performance Organization |
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The Talent Management Handbook by Berger, Lance
Creating Organizational Excellence by Identifying, Developing, and Promoting Your Best People |
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The Power of Focus
by Canfield, Jack et. al.
What the Worlds Greatest Achievers Know about The Secret of Financial Freedom and Success |
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Good to Great
by Collins, Jim
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't |
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Constructive Conflict Management
by Crawley, John
Managing to Make a Difference (People Skills for Professionals Series) |
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The Power of Intention
by Dyer, Dr. Wayne W
Change the Way You Look at Things and the Things You Look at will Change |
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The World Is Flat
by Friedman, Thomas
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century |
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Masterful Coaching
by Hargrove, Robert
Inspire an "Impossible Future" While Producing Extraordinary Leaders and Extraordinary Results |
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Death By Meeting
by Lencioni, Patrick
A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business |
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Blue Ocean Strategy
by Mauborgne, Renee
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant |
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You Don’t Have To Go Home From Work
Exhausted by McGee-Cooper, Ann
A Program to Bring Joy, Energy, and Balance to Your Life |
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Crucial Conversations
by Patterson, Kerry
Tools for Talking When Stakes are High |
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Re-Imagine
by Peters, Tom
Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age |
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A Whole New Mind
by Pink, Daniel H.
Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future |
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Talent Force
by Rueff, Rusty
A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business |
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Oh, The Places You'll Go
by Seuss, Dr.
Classic Seuss |
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Hardwiring Excellence
by Studer, Quint
Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference |
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Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution
by Weeks, Dudley
Preserving Relationships at Work, at Home, and in the Community |
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Conflict & Communication Activity Book
by Withers, Bill
30 High-Impact Training Exercises for Adult Learners |
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Breaking The Rules
by Wright, Kurt
Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance |
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The Art of Possibility
by Zander, Ben & Roz
Transforming Professional and Personal Life |
Books Leta Highly Recommends: |
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The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price
I use this little pocket-sized book every day. It is a great primer for developing an abundance mentality. It fact, it includes a forty-day prosperity plan. |
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A Whack On The Side Of The Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech
This book is all about creative thinking. It's fun! There is a companion tool - Creative Whack Pack - a deck of creativity stimulating cards. |
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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel Pink |
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Breaking The Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance by Kurt Wright
I use Kurt's "What's Right" questions routinely in my own life and with individual and corporate clients. I agree with Kurt's philosophy that we were meant to be on a roll all of the time!! |
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Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart by Tara Bennett-Goleman
This book was helpful to me in identifying some of my old "programming" that was getting in my way of achieving greater measures of success. |
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Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting:The Astonishing Power of Feelings by Lynn Grabhorn
I love Lynn's irreverent style.In a direct yet playful way, Lynn reminds us that our feelings make our lives what they are. And we get to choose how to feel at any given time. It is a HOOT to read and makes important points about the principles of abundance. |
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Infinite Mind: Science Of Human Vibrations Of Consciousness by Valerie Hunt, PhD
This resource provides the science behind human energy fields. It is not light reading! In my opinion; however, it offers solid scientific evidence for what we are coming to realize..emotions trigger our vibrational frequency. |
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Multiple Stream Of Internet Income by Robert G. Allen
This is definitely outer technology! This is an interesting read and I would recommend it to any entrepreneur or business wanting to use the internet in a huge way as a marketing vehicle. |
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The Other 90% : How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life by Robert K. Cooper |
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Re-imagine by Tom Peters |
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Spiritual Marketing:A Proven 5-Step Formula for Easily Creating Wealth from the Inside Out by Joe Vitale
Interesting title, eh? This quick read reinforces the powerful effect of inner technology and provides a simple five-step process to applying it. It works! Just ask Joe how many books he has sold. Another example of inner technology seeping into the way that we conduct business. |
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There's A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem by Wayne Dyer
The use of inner technology goes mainstream in Dyer's newest book. He reminds us that everything (and everyone) is energy and, therefore, anything is possible. |
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Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
This book has created more millionaires than any other ever printed. It is a classic on inner technology. Here's what Hill tells us."You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your own thoughts." |
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Work Yourself Happy by Terri Levine
My colleague, friend and personal coach simply and eloquently offers us a formula for doing what you love and loving what you are doing. |
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You Don't Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted!: A Program to Bring Joy, Energy, and Balance to Your Life by Ann McGee-Cooper
This workbook gives lots of playful exercises and examples for having fun at work and re-energizing yourself. |
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Work Less, Make More : Stop Working So Hard and Create the Life You Really Want! by Jennifer White
This book is full of so many tips and techniques that I already practice and recommend to my clients that I could have written in myself !!! Very practical and packs a punch when it comes to results. Don't we all want to work less and make more (of whatever it is that you are wanting?) |
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Good to Great by Jim Collins
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which reports on a long-term quantitative analysis of extraordinary organizations and the qualities that contributed to their rise from success to significance. This remains on my desk, within easy reach, for references on leadership coaching and visioning |
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The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
and Benjamin Zander
For me, the art of possibility is what business coaching is all about. This is required reading for my clients and anyone who truly wants to transform their lives. |