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Bibliography - Leadership

Leadership books abound. Use them prudently to add to your own leadership tool kit so you can better lead your company and serve your customers and associates. Click any hyperlinked title to read a full book review.

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Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1989).
Dissects leadership qualities by examining a couple dozen leaders.
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Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus, Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge, Harper & Row, New York (1985).

One of the best early books on leadership.

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Marvin Bower, The Will to Lead: Running a Business With a Network of Leaders, Harvard Business School Press, Boston (1997).

Leadership teams are foundational to a company's future success.

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Marvin Bower, The Will to Manage: Corporate Success through Programmed Management, McGraw-Hill, New York (1966).

Distilled wisdom from the managing director of McKinsey and Company.

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Steve Chandler, ReInventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be, Career Press (1998).

This enjoyable little book is all about "owing the spirit" in order to reinvent yourself and achieve whatever you desire from life. Start with your words.

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Steve Chandler, 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back & the Truth That Will Set You Free, Renaissance Books, Los Angeles (2000)

What we achieve depends on what we believe. All too often we tell ourselves lies that limit our accomplishments, our relationships, and our satisfaction with life itself.

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Rich DeVos, Hope from My Heart, J. Countryman, Nashville, TN (2000)

Life is all about a balance that flows from deep within each of us.

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George Dixon, What Works at Work: Lessons from the Masters, Lakewood Books, Minneapolis (1988).

27 consultant/trainers on all aspects of organizational behavior each discuss the ten most important lessons they have learned about people, performance, and productivity.

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Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices, HarperCollins, New York (1990).

Wisdom from the foremost management thinker of the Twentieth Century.

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B. Eugene Griessman, Time Tactics of Very Successful People, McGraw-Hill, New York (1994).

We are all strapped for time. This book shows you how to use it wisely for your purposes.

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Steven F. Hayward, Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity, Forum (Prima Publishing), Rocklin, CA (1997).

It is unusual to find executive success demonstrated by a political leader. Churchill is an exception, and this book shows how he did it.

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Robert D. Herman & Richard D. Heimovics, Executive Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: New Strategies for Shaping Executive-Board Dynamics, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1991).

Stresses the essential role of the chief executive and his/her relations with the board.

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Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery, Pantheon Books/Random House, New York (1953, 1981).

Eastern ways of thinking and learning can help us know ourselves and bring balance into our lives.

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Stephen Hess, Presidents & the Presidency, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (1996).

Few leaders are more scrutinized than Presidents of the United States. Stephen Hess analyzes the qualities Presidents need and have, as well as organizational forms that appear to be productive.

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Vernon A. Howard & James H. Barton, Thinking Together: Making Meetings Work, William Morrow, New York (1992).

Practical guide for getting things done effectively in meetings.

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Thomas P. Hughes, Rescuing Prometheus, Pantheon, New York (1998).

Confronting complex technological projects in the past half-century drove development of techniques we now take for granted. This book describes four seminal advances.

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Rushworth Kidder, How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, Fireside, New York (1995).

A valuable primer aimed at helping people make ethical choices, with a basic premise that tough choices revolve around questions of right vs. right (in which two deeply held values are pitted against each other and apparently cannot both be satisfied).

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E. Burt Knauft, Renee A. Berger & Sandra T. Gray, Profiles of Excellence: Achieving Success in the Nonprofit Sector, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1991).

Profiles a dozen successful nonprofits.

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Lynn Lively, The Procrastinator's Guide to Success, McGraw-Hill, New York (1999).

Successful people make a habit of good decisions. This book shows how.

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Brian K. Muirhead & William L. Simon, High Velocity Leadership, HarperBusiness, New York (1999).

How does one do something that's never been done before? Muirhead (with Simon's assistance) suggests how in a thrilling story of the Pathfinder Mission to Mars.

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Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership: Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organization, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1992).

First-rate guide from an acknowledged master.

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Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr., In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, Harper & Row, New York (1982).

Landmark book that changed American management behavior.

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Lou Tice, Personal Coaching for Results, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN (1997).

Achievement of great things starts with our beliefs. Lou Tice shows us how to use the full power of our minds for personal growth and how to use our own personal mastery to mentor others for their growth.

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Anthony Vlamis, Smart Leadership, American Management Association, New York (1999).

Useful reminders what leadership and its partner, management, are all about from eight thoughtful leaders who have done it.

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Ron Zemke & Dick Schaaf, The Service Edge: 101 Companies That Profit from Customer Care, New American Library, New York (1989).

Profiles the service aspects of 101 companies.

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	March 23rd, 1998