White Papers & Book Reviews

White Papers

Leadership

• The Leadership Pipeline

Communication

• Feedback in Organizations
• Fist-to-Five: Measuring Support
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Communication Skills: Great Speech!
• Retention Strategies
• Virtual Teams, Co-Located Teams and Geographically-Dispersed Teams

Teamwork

• Effective Team Planning
• Bridging the Generation Gap

Strategic Planning

• Barriers to Change
• Building Change-Ready Teams
• The Psychology of Change

Assessments & Profiles

• MBTI® at Work
• Teamwork Skills: Raise Your EQ
• EQ Assessments
• DISC® and True Colors®

Book Reviews

• Changing Minds by Howard Gardner
• Creating Change When You’re Stuck in Your Comfort Zone by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
• Emotional Capitalists by Martyn Newman
• Everyone a Leader by Horst Bergmann, Kathleen Hurson, and Darlene Russ-Eft
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott
• First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization
• Follow This Path by Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Here Today, Here Tomorrow by Gregory P. Smith
• Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke
• Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel
• Managing Transitions by William Bridges
• Predictable Surprises by Bazerman and Watkins
• Resilience at Work by Salvatore Maddi & Deborah Khoshaba
• Resonant Leadership by Boyatzis & McKee
• Smart Choices by John Hammond, Ralph Keeney and Howard Raiffa
• Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman
• Tell Me How I’m Doing by Richard Williams
• The Accountability Revolution by Mark Samuel
• The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback by Shirley Poertner & Karen Massetti Miller
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knowledge Management by Melissie Clemmons
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen
• The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan
• The Seven Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler
• The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• What Did You Say? by Charles Seashore, Edith Whitfield Seashore and Gerald Weinberg
• When Generations Collide by Lynne Lancaster, David Stillman, Harvey MacKay
• Why Can’t We Get Anything Done Around Here? by Robert Lefton and Jerome T. Loeb
• Why Don’t You Want What I Want? by Rick Maurer