The IMPACT Encyclopedia
Articles Filed Under: Books We Recommend
July 16, 2009
The Road Less Travelled: The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
From Amazon - Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience,…
February 19, 2009
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
By Patrick Lencioni - The Table Group
Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech''s CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be…
peer or team coaching, books we recommend, leadership, teams
November 28, 2008
Blue Ocean Strategy
Winning by not competing: a fresh approach to strategy Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth.
They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market…
November 12, 2008
First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals
Patrick J. McKenna, David H. Maister
Whether you have recently been appointed as a group leader or are a battle-scarred veteran, you know that managing professional people is difficult! In this unique handbook, Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister…
November 12, 2008
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t
Jim Collins
How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The…
books we recommend, leadership, greatness, business strategy
November 12, 2008
Wisdom Of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
Jon R. Katzenbach
Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the…
November 12, 2008
The Leadership Challenge
James M. Kouzes
The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors' central theme remains the same and is more…
November 12, 2008
Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life
Laura Whitworth
Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client''s agenda at the heart of the coaching…
November 12, 2008
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins
Whether challenged with taking on a startup, turning a business around, or inheriting a high-performing unit, a new leader''s success or failure is determined within the first 90 days on the job.
In this hands-on guide, Michael…
November 12, 2008
Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
Richard D. Carson
Your gremlin interprets your every experience. He has nothing good to say about you or anything you do, not to mention your dreams and aspirations. Just when you feel you've out-argued or overcome him, he changes his…
