Meggin’s Book Recommendations – Leadership
Book Recommendations – Leadership – and you can see more here: http://www.meggin.com/BooksLeadership.php
We ALL need to enhance our leadership skills – and some of the books that I find extremely useful are annotated below.
Take a few moments to read about the books I’ve listed below to see if any of the books sound interesting to you and see if they would be helpful to you, too. Everyone around you needs you to be at your best. These books help you do that.
Buckingham, Marcus, GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance.
Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement. His earlier books written while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status. Plus, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, too). Now that he’s started his own company, he is building an empire to keep propelling the strengths movement ahead. This book is an excellent read, you get to take a strengths assessment, and it has super nifty tools included (Love it and Loathe it cards, for example). HIGHLY recommended to be part of your library.
Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths.
I cannot recommend this book enough and even though it’s not a time/paper management book per se, it is because of their research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us do the same. This is probably the book I have recommended to more people for a longer period of time than any other book I’ve ever read. It’s life changing.
Buckingham, Marcus & Curt Coffman. First, Break All the Rules.
Rath, Tom. StrengthsFinder 2.0.
After Marcus Buckingham left the Gallup Organization to start his own company (and write his own book….GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance), then it was important for Gallup to publish a new book on the Strengths work that they have continued to do. And this is that book. For some reason, I was poised not to like it (who knows why), but I like it VERY much. It’s clear, provides excellent action suggestions for each of the 34 strengths, and of course, has the magic code in it so you can take the StrengthsFinder assessment. This is the book I now use when I’m teaching Strengths workshops. Order it today if you haven’t already.
Scott, Susan. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time.
Just the title alone intrigued me…and then when I read the Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, I was hooked. For example, Principle 6 is “Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Wake.” Scott points out that for leaders, there are no “trivial comments.” Since reading this book, I have highly recommended it in my leadership training seminars, and am using it as a core text in an upcoming year long training. Reading it will have an impact on your professional and personal life–even if you don’t do anything. If you DO follow some of her suggestions, your personal and professional lives will be “fiercely” affected.
Sutton, Robert. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
Now just tell me that this title doesn’t make you want to read the book – or at least talk to someone who HAS read the book. I have read the book and have recommended it to hundreds of people because, unfortunately, many workplaces don’t seem to have implemented the ‘no asshole rule.’ In this time of toxicity in the workplace, which is a horrendous impediment to productivity, this book is worth reading and worth buying for others to read. Unfortunately, the real a-holes won’t get it, so don’t waste your money on them. Get your colleagues to read it and then discuss it in a faculty meeting.
Welch, Suzy 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea.
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