Leadership resources

The first challenge is where to put this book in the placings here. Leadership because that is what we use parts of it for on our programmes. If you are interested in climbing books, this will give some great messages about leadership, teamwork, self awareness, drive, motivation and risk. Quite a lot really for 1 book!
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Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to identify a single, underlying cause of every form of leadership failure.
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Amazon says: In this world, the inclusive, intuitive and humane style of management will work, not the top-down approach – and here is an author uniquely placed to tell us how. I say this book, recommended to me by one of my Indian students, is written by an experienced senior manager who ‘gets it’. The book really has you challenging yourself as well as being very accessible.
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The is a handy little book gives insight into what I would describe as the basics of leadership. It is easily applied and a very useful start. I have read it and found it worthwhile.
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Personal Development resources

A great book that helps us understand what for many life had / has become – the sole and mindless pursuit of wealth as a substitute for meaning to life. This is as oppossed to wealth as an enabler in the pursuit of a greater meaning. Whatever that may be!
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The Power of Thinking without Thinking. This book explains those moments when we know something without really knowing why or how. Understanding this is the key to unlocking the power of our intuition.
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Creagh Dhu Climber: The Life and Times of John Cunningham. John was an inspirational lecturer at the college I atteded. This book describes his adventurous life – much in the service of others.
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Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in You Life
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A great book to give you structure, confidence and the right approach when you need to do the name sake – which is more often than perhaps you are aware!
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A brilliant book on how to deal with conversations you have so far avoided. I recommend this book to many people.
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There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day. Eat That Frog! takes this saying as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day – the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that will have the greatest positive impact on your life.
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Ways of bringing about more cooperation from children than all the yelling and pleading in the world – thats what the book says and it’s pretty good stuff
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Powerful tools and approaches for influence
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Follow on from Funky Business – do you want to be a first-rate version of yourself or a second-rate version of someone else?
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This book is a disturbing read but life changing. It is a must read for any thinking person.
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Looking at how our behaviour directly influences output. A good personal and leadership read.
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Transform your Business by Being Remarkable. I think this is a great book about transforming yourself!
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A great liilte book full of stories pertaining to the name. Learning to let go of what you cannot control to allow focus on what you can!
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An Hour of Reading for a Lifetime of Love. This really is a great little book. I don’t know anyone who has not been in some way motivated by it – an eye opener.
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A classic – magic, dreams and the treasures we seek elsewhere only to find on our doorstep!
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From the cover: A rallying cry to ignore ‘experts’, The Black Swan shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage on uncertainty. This book is incredibly topical and to me a massive release from being help hostage to those who proclaim to know it all. I cannot remember 18 months ago any of these experts predicting oil prices, credit crunch, food prices or GDP as being what they are today! This book determines that they never did know, they were simply able to convince us that they did. Read for yourself and make you own mind up.
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A beautifully written set of short stories about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. This book to me is a brilliant metaphor for the accumulated baggage we bring into play as we progress forward with our lives. Thought provoking.
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Emotional Literacy – what does it mean and why is it important? I have heard Susie referred to as a feminist writer. I am not sure what that is supposed to imply. For anyone keen to explore the role of their emotions and move towards mastery this is a fantastic book.
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Few of us understand our emotions. We can be overwhelmed by anxiety; confuse grief with depression, anger with aggression. Even when suspect that various bodily ailments are connected with our emotions, we don’t know how to help ourselves. Trusting the tides is a fascinating and accessible guide to the currents of the heart.
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Organisational Development resources

From Amazon – This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Throughout, the authors asked: ‘What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?’
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An excellent introduction and resource for those interested in Business Psychology.
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A comprehensive resource for the name sake, well written, interesting and complete
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Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, “Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?” In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Instead Collins and his team found a common set of characteristics and traits. If that has not got you curious you are on the wrong site!
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Huczynski and Buchanan bring their well-known and successful brand of critical thinking, social science underpinning, and visual appraisal to bear in this comprehensive introduction to organizational behaviour.
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How little things can make a big difference. That magic moment when ideas, tends and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire.
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Process Improvement resources

The “Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook” blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a “family” is best for different purposes.
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How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services
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As the name say: Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy: Made Easy! A reference.
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Essential quick reference guide to the concepts and techniques of lean operations
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HR and Facilitator resources

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. They introduce you to the famous 12 questions start determine employee engaugement and delivery.
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Part of our Talent Development recomendation, this book come witha lisence for the online Strengths Finder questionaire.
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Usiong the 9 Box model, this book shows companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs they may not even yet realize.
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Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindulness, introduced in her influential earlier book, to dramatically enhance the way we learn.
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Coaching

A good book for those whose coaching stops with the GROW model- which seems to be many! An easy read with lots of examples and very light for the size for the plane!
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A good book for experienced coaches undergoing advanced study. Too involved and deep for inexperienced, novice or those looking for tools.
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A good deep book for experienced practioners working at the top of organisations.
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I hate the name of these series however the books are a good reference. This one by Jeni Mumford is just a great practical, easy to understand and non prescriptive mentor for developing your goals.
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A good thought provoking set of questions, useful for personal reflection and inspiriing questions to ask others.
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50 Top Executive coaches Reveal Their Secretes! Wow! A number of these 50 I (as a mere mortal) had no idea were coaches but there you go! The read has lots on interesting things in it and I really don’t care who calls themselves what as long as they have something to offer.
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A good partner and more practical associate of The Complete Guide to Coaching at work
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Like most complete guides it is less than complete however it again covers many aspects of coaching beyond the practical.
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Once you are past first principles this book is a great reference and guide to establishing a more robust approach.
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A heavy weight book; for those serious about understanding helping modalities this is what I would call a standard text.
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This is a really good book for both coaches and coachees. The concepts are simple but deep. I am sure everyone will be able to relate to at least a few of the maladies described. Learn from it and move forward! It does not teach you how to coach.
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