Recommended Books

Book Good to Great:  Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t
Author Jim Collins
Notes Describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition.
Book First Who then What – Getting right people in right seat
Author Jim Collins
Notes Good to Great Revisited
Book Level 5 Leadership:  Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
Author John C. Maxwell
Notes True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. 
Book The Energy Bus
Author Jon Gordon
Notes 10 Rules For The Ride Of Your Life
Book The OZ Principle:  Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
Author Roger Connors, Thomas A. Smith, Craig R. Hickman
Notes Results and Accountability
Book Change the Culture, Change the Game
Author Roger Connors and Thomas A. Smith
Notes The Results Pyramid
Book Heroic Leadership:  Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed The World
Author Chris Lowney
Notes Leadership Principles for Lasting Success
Book Delivering Happiness:  A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose
Author Tony Hsieh
Notes The hip, iconoclastic CEO of Zappos shows how a different kind of corporate culture can make a huge difference in achieving remarkable results – by actually creating a company culture that values happiness – and then delivers on it. 
Book Outliers:  The Story of Success
Author Malcolm Gladwell
Notes What makes high-achievers different?
Book Made to Stick:  Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Author Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Notes Whether you’re a CEO or a full-time mom, you’ve got ideas that you need to communicate:  a new product coming to market, a strategy you want to sell your boss, values you are trying to instill in your children.  But it’s hard – fiendishly so – to transform the way people think and act. 
Book Quiet Strength:  The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
Author Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
Notes He led his team to #1 in the world and showed the world a better way to live, lead and succeed. 
Book The Way of the Shepherd:  Seven secrets to Managing Productive People
Author Dr. Kevin Leman and Bill Pentak
Notes This unforgettable book reads quickly, hits hard, and stays with you.  It illustrates an approach to management that is:  Timeless, Challenging and Uncommon.
Book 2 Chairs
Author Bob Beaudine
Notes Seven practical steps to walk courageously, faithfully, and cheerfully through your trouble whether it is a minor issue or a major crisis.
Book Turn the Ship Around 
Author David Marquet
Book The Servant
Author James C. Hunter
Book The Fred Factor
Author Mark Sanborn