Book List
Explore our curated book list, packed with powerful reads to inspire, motivate, and guide you on your coaching journey.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Classic, rich with case studies of highly successful CEO’s and how they were able to transform their leadership to an even higher level. Includes the classic list of 20 ineffective habits of highly successful leaders. Download the list which Hubert Joly, who teaches Leadership at Harvard Business School, used to find the 13 which were holding him back during his highly successful turnaround leadership as CEO of Best Buy..
Mastering Leadership by Robert J. Anderson (Author) and William A. Adams
Mastering Leadership dives deeply into only leadership instrument Bill has found which gathers both behaviors and underlying fears which drive these behaviors. Co-authored by Bill Adams and Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership reveals useful statistical correlations which many coaches describe as more powerful, revealing and useful for leadership transformation than a dozen one on one coaching sessions.
Scaling Leadership by Bob Anderson
Scaling Leadership leverages for the first time factor analysis from over 300,000 assessment comments gathered in the vast Leadership Circle proprietary database. Fascinating analysis, based on language of those on the receiving end of both top quartile and bottom quartile leadership, highlighting a decade long longitudinal study of how the statistical power of the Leadership Circle instrument can be leveraged to drive extraordinary business results, employee engagement and customer impact.
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
Coauthored by Google’s first CEO Eric Schmidt, the stories in this book transformed how Bill coaches. Leaders at Google for over a decade, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle experienced firsthand how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth, inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a fable which contains the prerequisites for creating a high performance leadership team. Do you know which team each of your executive team considers Team One? If you are not sure, this 2 minute video by author Patrick Lencioni is a favorite of successful CEO’s starting a journey to build an even more successful top team.
The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy Edmondson
The Right Kind of Wrong by Harvard Professor and scientist on the Science of Failing Well is packed with practical examples to both open your mind to the value of welcoming and even celebrating failure, as well as sharpening your perspective on the need to be aware of failure in increasingly complex systems.
Coaching Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials by Kirsten Dierolf, Daniel Meier, and Peter Szabó
Coaching Plain and Simple shares the coaching magic of Solution Focused Brief Coaching; a powerful compliment to Stakeholder Centered Coaching. Translated from the original German version by Kirsten Dierolf, Founder of Solutions Academy, our favorite one stop shop for ICF Coaching certification.
Navigating Polarities: Using Both/And Thinking to Lead Transformation by Brian Emerson & Kelly Lewis
Navigating Polarities distills what many businesses find to be the key to innovation and cultural transformation:clarity around the difference between “both::and” vs. “either::or” thinking. Highly useful for both individual and collective leadership growth, polarity thinking is also revealed in the correlations between different leadership tendencies in The Leadership Circle instrument.
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life by Barry Oshry
Based on more than thirty years of research and packed with illustrative cases and solid systems theory on human interaction, Seeing Systems provides a penetrating look at the dynamics of systems and a unique foundation for revolutionizing our understanding of system life.
The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman
Mark Horstman, co-creator of the Manager Tools podcast with 1500+ episodes, is an excellent foundational guide for those stepping into their first significant leadership role. A highly structured 4 step roadmap provides easy to implement steps for new and experienced leaders to strengthen their leadership muscle. Distilled into 12 words 1. Know your people, 2. Talk about performance, 3. Ask for more, and 4. Push work down. Curious to compare your one on one practice to their field study based recommendations?
