Books
Currently in Development:
The H2O (Help to Organizations/Ourselves) Trilogy: How to Overcome "DRY" (Doesn't Reward You and Me) Environments
- Execution Crisis! How DRY Leadership Interrupts the Flow of Progress . . . and How H2O Can Help
- Education Crisis!: How DRY Education Interrupts the Flow of Learning . . . and How to Develop an H2O-centered Training Approach
- H2O for Mentors: How to be an Oasis of Support for Those in DRY Environments
Click here for an excerpt from Part I of the Trilogy »
Top 3 Recommended Popular Books:
Execution (Marathon Mentality):
- A Bias for Action (good examples, but a little long) - Heike Bruch & Sumantra Ghoshal
- Execution (a little long, but good in places) - Larry Bossidy et al.
- Changing for Good (good for individual change) - James Prochaska et al.
Achievement (Culture of Achievement)
- Good to Great - Jim Collins
- Failing Forward - John Maxwell
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (a little old, but stands the test of time) - Stephen Covey
Relationships (Self-Mastery & Interpersonal Expertise)
- The Eighth Habit - Stephen Covey
- True Success - Tom Morris
- On Becoming a Person (can be a little technical in places) - Carl Rogers
Scholarly Books
Bandura, A (Ed.) (1995). Self-efficacy in changing societies . New York : Cambridge University Press.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience . New York : HarperPerennial.
Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention, and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading , MA : Addison-Wesley.
Perls, F. S., Hefferline, R. F., & Goodman, P. (1951). Gestalt therapy: Excitement and growth in the human personality. London : Penguin Books.
Wilson, S.R. (2002). Seeking and resisting compliance: Why people say what they do when trying to influence others. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications.