Books
Books we recommend for helping ourselves, our businesses, and our humanity.
All Books
Teal Books
Teaming
Leadership
Humanity/Self
In-Transition
Organizational Intelligence
Other Concepts
All Books
Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
Concept: Business Management
Why I Like It: The proven step-by-step guide to swimming in blue oceans.
Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius: Gregory Hays Translation, 2002
Concept: Guidance and Self-Improvement
Why I Like It: The personal writings from one of the Good Roman Emperors. Timeless lessons applicable to emperors and regular people alike.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
Concept: Maximizing time and energy
Why I Like It: We’re used to believing that we need to work longer, harder. Now, get rid of those thoughts entirely. A must-read for overworked/ underutilized people.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael Singer
Concept: Self/Spiritual Development
Why I Like It: How to achieve happiness in our human identity and in the development of our consciousness.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
Concept: Business Management for Game Changers
Why I Like It: Realize where to fish in the blue ocean instead of in the red ocean of competitiveness
Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
Melody Wilding
Concept: Being Yourself is WONDERFUL!
Why I Like It: The Sensitive Striver can get beaten down in life and in business. This book tells you how to reclaim your greatness and thrive!
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Concept: Women in Leadership
Why I Like It: It’s not afraid to tell the truth that “It’s a male-dominated world” but also how to own your own greatness as a woman leader.
Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO
Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles
Concept: The Chief Operating Officer’s No. 1 read
Why I Like It: Everything (almost) you wanted to know about the COO Role and how to navigate it
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Concept: Making and breaking self made habits
Why I Like It: A “life makeover” for your automatic self
The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
Don Miguel Ruiz
Concept: Going deeper into self awareness
Why I Like It: Understanding ourselves at deeper levels returns us to our born authenticity of self
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Concept: Redefining success/understanding the Human Condition
Why I Like It: EQ is more important than IQ in living a successful life
The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Don Miguel Ruiz
Concept: The source of self-limiting beliefs
Why I Like It: It challenges us to think differently, with more joy and less suffering
Creating We: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization
Judith Glaser
Concept: It is a team approach of creating the safe spaces that we need in business or in all of life.
Why I Like It: Creating the world of We
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute, 2018
Concept: True Leadership
Why I Like It: Ending the cycle of our true motivations and how we unwittingly sabotage others.
The Anatomy of Peace, 4th Ed: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
The Arbinger Institute, 2022
Concept: Peace
Why I Like It: How to think differently for a new world of peace; within our hearts first, but then spread throughout our disconnected world.
The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves
The Arbinger Institute, 2019
Concept: Combat Self-Centeredness
Why I Like It: This is what our world needs – the ability to see beyond our own needs and to find
The Job Closer
Steve Dalton
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: The next book by the exalted Steve Dalton!
Winning the Executive Interview
Marcia Ballinger and Kevin Johnson
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: Learn how to get this coveted interview.
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting
Marcia Ballinger and Nathan Perez
Concept: Know how to have Informational Interviews or Networking Meetings? If not, get this book!
Why I Like It: Because we need to know how to navigate getting our next jobs.
LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive – 2nd Edn.
Carol Kaemmerer
Concept: The consummate LinkedIn Guide for your profile.
Why I Like It: Because she is AMAZING!!!
The 2-Hour Job Search – 2nd Edn.
Steve Dalton
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: THE METHODOLOGY OF HEROES!
Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door
Ellen Debenport
Concept: For transitional times
Why I Like It: Help us navigate life changes.
Transitions
William Bridges
Concept: Self Development inside tragic times
Why I Like It: We need to understand how to navigate our Transitional periods in life.
How Full is your Bucket (A Gallup book)
Tom Rath and Don Clifton
Concept: CliftonStrengths
Why I Like It: For people with high positivity – they need the refill of their positivity before they can give it out.
Wellbeing: The Essential Elements (A Gallup book)
Tom Rath and Jim Harter
Concept: CliftonStrengths, Wellbeing
Why I Like It: Because we Need Wellbeing in every aspect of life.
It’s the Manager (A Gallup book)
Jim Clifton and Jim Harter
Concept: Team Development, Manager Development
Why I Like It: The next evolution of 12: (see above).
12: The Elements of Great Managing (A Gallup book)
Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter
Concept: Management, CliftonStrengths and BP10 Coaching for Managers
Why I Like It: We need GOOD Managers who love their people and want to develop them.
Conversational Intelligence
Judith E. Glaser
Concept: Team Development method/tool
Why I Like It: Because we need to honor each other
Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi
Concept: Good business management book for Amber and Orange orgs that may become Teal at some point.
Why I Like It: Precursor to Teal
The New One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Concept: Good business management book for Amber and Orange orgs that may become Teal at some point.
Why I Like It: Precursor to Teal
Death by Meeting
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Amber and Orange problems
Why I Like It: Team and organization development. More of this is fixed inside Teal organizations
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Team Development – and Why We NEED Teal!
Why I Like It: Shows the problems that are inherent in Amber and Orange Organizational Structures.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Team Development
Why I Like It: Shows the initial five concepts of Team Dysfunctions
Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future
Joel A. Barker
Concept: Paradigm Shifting – Also Teal Concepts
Why I Like It: We are the consciousness that continues to evolve from Joel’s work in the 1980s and 1990s.
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Margaret J. Wheatley
Concept: Teal Concepts on other levels
Why I Like It: We must look at where we are in history and then chart where we really want to be and who we choose to be inside these times.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux
Concept: Teal Organizational Paradigm
Why I Like It: Value People over Profit – build the next generation of organization.
The Right It
Alberto Savoia
Concept: Pretotyping
Why I Like It: Test the market before you build something no one wants.
Teal Books
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Margaret J. Wheatley
Concept: Teal Concepts on other levels
Why I Like It: We must look at where we are in history and then chart where we really want to be and who we choose to be inside these times.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux
Concept: Teal Organizational Paradigm
Why I Like It: Value People over Profit – build the next generation of organization.
Teaming
Creating We: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization
Judith Glaser
Concept: It is a team approach of creating the safe spaces that we need in business or in all of life.
Why I Like It: Creating the world of We
Conversational Intelligence
Judith E. Glaser
Concept: Team Development method/tool
Why I Like It: Because we need to honor each other
Death by Meeting
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Amber and Orange problems
Why I Like It: Team and organization development. More of this is fixed inside Teal organizations
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Team Development – and Why We NEED Teal!
Why I Like It: Shows the problems that are inherent in Amber and Orange Organizational Structures.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Concept: Team Development
Why I Like It: Shows the initial five concepts of Team Dysfunctions
Leadership
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Concept: Women in Leadership
Why I Like It: It’s not afraid to tell the truth that “It’s a male-dominated world” but also how to own your own greatness as a woman leader.
Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO
Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles
Concept: The Chief Operating Officer’s No. 1 read
Why I Like It: Everything (almost) you wanted to know about the COO Role and how to navigate it
Creating We: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization
Judith Glaser
Concept: It is a team approach of creating the safe spaces that we need in business or in all of life.
Why I Like It: Creating the world of We
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute, 2018
Concept: True Leadership
Why I Like It: Ending the cycle of our true motivations and how we unwittingly sabotage others.
It’s the Manager (A Gallup book)
Jim Clifton and Jim Harter
Concept: Team Development, Manager Development
Why I Like It: The next evolution of 12: (see above).
12: The Elements of Great Managing (A Gallup book)
Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter
Concept: Management, CliftonStrengths and BP10 Coaching for Managers
Why I Like It: We need GOOD Managers who love their people and want to develop them.
Conversational Intelligence
Judith E. Glaser
Concept: Team Development method/tool
Why I Like It: Because we need to honor each other
Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi
Concept: Good business management book for Amber and Orange orgs that may become Teal at some point.
Why I Like It: Precursor to Teal
The New One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Concept: Good business management book for Amber and Orange orgs that may become Teal at some point.
Why I Like It: Precursor to Teal
Humanity/Self
Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius: Gregory Hays Translation, 2002
Concept: Guidance and Self-Improvement
Why I Like It: The personal writings from one of the Good Roman Emperors. Timeless lessons applicable to emperors and regular people alike.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael Singer
Concept: Self/Spiritual Development
Why I Like It: How to achieve happiness in our human identity and in the development of our consciousness.
Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
Melody Wilding
Concept: Being Yourself is WONDERFUL!
Why I Like It: The Sensitive Striver can get beaten down in life and in business. This book tells you how to reclaim your greatness and thrive!
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Concept: Making and breaking self made habits
Why I Like It: A “life makeover” for your automatic self
The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
Don Miguel Ruiz
Concept: Going deeper into self awareness
Why I Like It: Understanding ourselves at deeper levels returns us to our born authenticity of self
The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Don Miguel Ruiz
Concept: The source of self-limiting beliefs
Why I Like It: It challenges us to think differently, with more joy and less suffering
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute, 2018
Concept: True Leadership
Why I Like It: Ending the cycle of our true motivations and how we unwittingly sabotage others.
The Anatomy of Peace, 4th Ed: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
The Arbinger Institute, 2022
Concept: Peace
Why I Like It: How to think differently for a new world of peace; within our hearts first, but then spread throughout our disconnected world.
The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves
The Arbinger Institute, 2019
Concept: Combat Self-Centeredness
Why I Like It: This is what our world needs – the ability to see beyond our own needs and to find
How Full is your Bucket (A Gallup book)
Tom Rath and Don Clifton
Concept: CliftonStrengths
Why I Like It: For people with high positivity – they need the refill of their positivity before they can give it out.
Wellbeing: The Essential Elements (A Gallup book)
Tom Rath and Jim Harter
Concept: CliftonStrengths, Wellbeing
Why I Like It: Because we Need Wellbeing in every aspect of life.
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Margaret J. Wheatley
Concept: Teal Concepts on other levels
Why I Like It: We must look at where we are in history and then chart where we really want to be and who we choose to be inside these times.
In-Transition
The Job Closer
Steve Dalton
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: The next book by the exalted Steve Dalton!
Winning the Executive Interview
Marcia Ballinger and Kevin Johnson
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: Learn how to get this coveted interview.
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting
Marcia Ballinger and Nathan Perez
Concept: Know how to have Informational Interviews or Networking Meetings? If not, get this book!
Why I Like It: Because we need to know how to navigate getting our next jobs.
LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive – 2nd Edn.
Carol Kaemmerer
Concept: The consummate LinkedIn Guide for your profile.
Why I Like It: Because she is AMAZING!!!
The 2-Hour Job Search – 2nd Edn.
Steve Dalton
Concept: Job Transition
Why I Like It: THE METHODOLOGY OF HEROES!
Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door
Ellen Debenport
Concept: For transitional times
Why I Like It: Help us navigate life changes.
Transitions
William Bridges
Concept: Self Development inside tragic times
Why I Like It: We need to understand how to navigate our Transitional periods in life.
Organizational Intelligence
Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
Concept: Business Management
Why I Like It: The proven step-by-step guide to swimming in blue oceans.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
Concept: Business Management for Game Changers
Why I Like It: Realize where to fish in the blue ocean instead of in the red ocean of competitiveness
Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO
Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles
Concept: The Chief Operating Officer’s No. 1 read
Why I Like It: Everything (almost) you wanted to know about the COO Role and how to navigate it
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Concept: Redefining success/understanding the Human Condition
Why I Like It: EQ is more important than IQ in living a successful life
Creating We: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization
Judith Glaser
Concept: It is a team approach of creating the safe spaces that we need in business or in all of life.
Why I Like It: Creating the world of We
Conversational Intelligence
Judith E. Glaser
Concept: Team Development method/tool
Why I Like It: Because we need to honor each other
Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future
Joel A. Barker
Concept: Paradigm Shifting – Also Teal Concepts
Why I Like It: We are the consciousness that continues to evolve from Joel’s work in the 1980s and 1990s.
Other Concepts
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
Concept: Maximizing time and energy
Why I Like It: We’re used to believing that we need to work longer, harder. Now, get rid of those thoughts entirely. A must-read for overworked/ underutilized people.
The Right It
Alberto Savoia
Concept: Pretotyping
Why I Like It: Test the market before you build something no one wants.
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