Books We Love
Leadership and Self-Deception, Getting Out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute
A story that reminds us to be accountable for our actions and to treat people as people and understand what everyone is dealing with on a daily basis. You are the only one that makes you feel a certain way. Nobody else makes you feel bad.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Individuals can get through any situation with a positive outlook. Frankl was in a Nazi concentration camp and was able to survive by maintaining an attitude of gratitude and positive thinking.
The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh provides a simple guide to communication that first starts with our internal communication that must be mastered before we will be compassionate enough for external communication. As mentioned in the book, "Many of us spend a lot of time in meetings or e-mailing with others, and not a lot of time communicating with ourselves. The result is that we don't know what is going on within us. It may be a mess inside. How, then, can we communicate with another person?"
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Discusses in depth four agreements: 1.) Be impeccable with your word (speak truth, do not gossip), 2.) Don't take anything personally, 3.) Don't make assumptions and 4.) Always do your best.
The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Provides examples of being fully engaged in all that you do. For instance, they denote the full engagement principles as being:
The Psychology of Winning, Dr. Denis Waitley
Denotes the 10 qualities of a winner are positive self – awareness, esteem, control, motivation, expectancy, image, direction, discipline, dimension and projection.
A story that reminds us to be accountable for our actions and to treat people as people and understand what everyone is dealing with on a daily basis. You are the only one that makes you feel a certain way. Nobody else makes you feel bad.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Individuals can get through any situation with a positive outlook. Frankl was in a Nazi concentration camp and was able to survive by maintaining an attitude of gratitude and positive thinking.
The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh provides a simple guide to communication that first starts with our internal communication that must be mastered before we will be compassionate enough for external communication. As mentioned in the book, "Many of us spend a lot of time in meetings or e-mailing with others, and not a lot of time communicating with ourselves. The result is that we don't know what is going on within us. It may be a mess inside. How, then, can we communicate with another person?"
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Discusses in depth four agreements: 1.) Be impeccable with your word (speak truth, do not gossip), 2.) Don't take anything personally, 3.) Don't make assumptions and 4.) Always do your best.
The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Provides examples of being fully engaged in all that you do. For instance, they denote the full engagement principles as being:
- Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance
- Full engagement requires drawing on four separate but related dimensions of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
- Because energy capacity diminishes with both overuse and underuse, we must learn to balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
- To build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
- Positive energy rituals – highly specific routines for managing energy – are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance.
The Psychology of Winning, Dr. Denis Waitley
Denotes the 10 qualities of a winner are positive self – awareness, esteem, control, motivation, expectancy, image, direction, discipline, dimension and projection.