Resources

Here are a few of my favorite inspirational authors and thought leaders on various topics that matter. Enjoy and let me know if you have others that you find valuable.

Individual Development

Leadership Circle Assessment

      • An incredible 360 tool for helping leaders maximize their positive impact

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    • Growth Mindset

      • A philosophy that unlocks performance and compassion for individuals, teams, and companies.

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    • Covey

      • An oldy but a goody, incredible foundational principles to live a life of integrity and success.

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    • Leadership Pipeline

      • Great book for talking about the changes in work values, time application, and skills needed as one moves through their career from individual contributor to various levels of management.

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    • The Power of Story

      • Our life is really a compilation of stories.  The lessons that we take from our stories and how we author our next chapters determines our success.  This book walks you through the process to be a purposeful author of the rest of your life.  

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    • 4,000 Weeks

      • A great look at what productivity and happiness is all about. 

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    • Younger Next Year

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    • White Fragility

      • As a white man, I can say this is required reading for folks who identify as white (and others might enjoy as well but they probably have enough lived experience where the content will feel sadly overly familiar). It helps to reframe the topic of racism in a way that I need to hear.

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    • How to Be An Anti-Racist

      • Great framing and clarity on how to be active in living the values of anti-racism and avoid performative or passive support.

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        Change

    • Neuroscience- David Rock coined the term Neuroscience, looking at the connection between brain chemistry and our behaviors.  His SCARF model is truly game changing since it addresses how we perceive rewards and threats in our environment. 

    • Debra Rowland

      • Great methodology how to make deep change happen. She has 4 archetypes to help think about different ways to lead and integrates mindfulness in her approach.

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    • EPIC 

      • Timothy Clark describes an easy 4 step model on how to think about change.  I especially like the focus on energy transfer to get a change started and then how it evolves over the course of an initiative.

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    • Immunity to Change

      • If you are wondering why change is so hard, Kagan and Lahey’s groundbreaking work is for you. They show how we often hold beliefs that work against the changes we say we want and then offer a methodology to work through them.

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Team Evolution

    • 5 Dysfunctions of A Team

      • Lencioni does a brilliant job of identifying 5 fundamental ingredients for making teams perform.  The book below is the field guide for how to correct the dysfunctions and enable a flourishing, productive team.

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        Culture

    • Brené Brown

      • An incredibly important visionary for this day on culture and leadership. She covers an immense amount of ground from research on shame, vulnerability, and corporate culture.

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    • Adam Grant

      • A prolific thought leader on company culture and motivations.  His latest book focuses on how to challenge our own assumptions.

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    • Daniel Pink

      • Pink’s work on motivation is simple and compelling. Video is a must watch for it’s clarity and challenging stance.

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        Wellbeing

    • Wellbeing

      • Created through comprehensive research by the Gallup organization, this book outlines a great framework for assessing and improving wellbeing in all aspects of your life

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    • Mindfulness

      • Scott Shute led the mindfulness work at LinkedIn and is a renowned speaker and coach.  His focus is bringing compassion to corporate cultures. His book talks about how to find your purpose in your life among other brilliant insights.

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    • Happiness Lab

      • Dr. Laurie Santos created the most sought after course at Yale focusing on happiness.  She has since curated an online course and a podcast called the Happiness Lab where she points out practices to build your own happiness that are often counter intuitive.

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      • Yale Course- Link (and, remarkably, it is free)

    • Shawn Achor

      • A compelling speaker and researcher on happiness. He outlines basic strategies to help lead a more happy life.

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    • Jay Shetty

      • A prolific podcaster and author, Jay Shetty started out as a monk after college and now shares simple lessons learned from those days that can serve all of us in our daily lives. He also does a nice comparison between Monk Mind and Monkey Mind. I especially like his morning routine: TIME (Thankfulness, Insight, Meditation, Exercise)

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      • Morning Routine: Video