“The Cultural Leadership Challenge”
Joyce Bleby, CLOC, August 2006. A new generation of Executives and Managing Directors on the horizon bringing with them a new level of understanding and expertise in Cultural Leadership.
Peter Miller, National Geographic, July 2007. Ants, bees and birds teach us how to cope with a complex world.
Jerry Useem, Fortune, June 2005. It’s really a stream of decisions over time, brilliantly executed, that accounts for great outcomes.
Fortune, March 2005. A selection of business leaders share the most important advice from people who influenced their lives.
“Why it’s hard to do what’s right.”
Bill George, Fortune, September 2003. Medtronic’s former chairman Bill George says
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“Reawakening Your Passion for Work”
Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, and Daniel Goleman. HBR, April 2002. The process is almost always painful and messy but in every person’s life, there comes a time to take stock.
Jim Collins, HBR January 2001.
Build enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.
Leadership and the New Science
Margaret Wheatley. Expands our thinking about people and organisations into rich new terrain. Quantum science and business.
Good to Great
Jim Collins. Why some companies make the leap ... and others don’t. Empirically uncovers principles for building enduring greatness.
Neurosis and Human Growth
Karen Horney, M.D. Self knowledge is a means of liberating forces of spontaneous growth. Describes alienation from self, externalisation and the tyranny of the should.
I Ching
Richard Wilhelm translation. Learn to tap into your intuition using contemplative wisdom.
The Power of Myth and
The Hero with 1000 Faces
Joseph Campbell. The worlds wisdom traditions as metaphors offer deep insight into human experience.
The Way of the Owl
Frank Rivers. Succeed with integrity in a conflicted world.
The Artists Way
Julia Cameron. Discover the morning pages and your latent creativity.
Maverick
Ricardo Semler. Be inspired to experiment, but don’t expect to copy.
The Sacred Balance
David Suzuki. Rediscover our place in nature.
A Theory of Everything
Ken Wilber. Deep integrative thinking, memes of consciousness, holons.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Doestoyevsky. Dark, psychological journey into redemption. An archetypal Heroes cycle. Read the classics!
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