What are Resources and Tools?

Resources are the books, articles, and experiences that provide a background and depth to greater understanding of an issue related to the building of leaders, teams, and organizations.

Tools are the systems and processes used as guides to development; basically maps to guide the sequence as well as images to help better portray a situation.

Both the resources we choose and the tools we use provide us with a common language within an organization to support improvement.

Resources

The Goal – Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Good To Great - Jim Collins

The Four-Fold Way: walking the Paths of the Warrior – Angeles Arrien

The Fifth Discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization – Peter M. Senge

Crucial Conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high – Kerry Patterson

Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield

Speed of Trust: the one thing that changes everything – Peter M.R. Covey

A New Earth: awakening to your life’s purpose – Eckhart Tolle

Breakpoint and Beyond: mastering the future today – George Land and Beth Jarman

Rhythm of Life: Living every day with passion and purpose – Mathew Kelly

Crucial Confrontations: tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior – Kerry Patterson

Switch: How to change things when change is hard – Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Whole New Mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future – Daniel Pink

Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us – Daniel Pink

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Loving What Is: four questions that can change your life – Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell

Flow: the psychology of optimal experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Outliers: the story of success – Malcolm Gladwell

Second Half of Life: Opening the eight gates of wisdom – Angeles Arrien

Creating the High Performance Team – Steve Buchholz and Thomas Roth