Optional Further Reading
- Handouts:
- Self-Assessment Handout (Week 2)
- Moving from Complaint to Request Worksheet (Week 4)
- Challenge Questions (Week 5)
- Clarity Checklist (Week 6)
- Framework for Working with Conversation Types (Week 6)
- Handbook of Process Moves for Meetings (Week 7)
- Phrases for responding to unusual ideas in meetings Week 7)
- Vision workflow (Week 8)
- Growth Mindset: What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means, by Carol Dweck
- Assumptions & Listening:
- The Pitfalls of Trying to Read Minds, by Isaac Lidsky
- Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address, written and delivered by David Foster Wallace (May 21, 2005)
- Otto Scharmer on the Four Levels of Listening (video)
- Self-awareness and leadership: Self-Awareness is Key to Becoming a Successful Leader by Daniel Goleman
- Inner critic: Soul Without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within, by Byron Brown
- Failure: Failure Doesn’t Exist, by Nicolas Cole
- Dealing with Fear: How to be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets from a Bomb Disposal Expert, by Eric Barker
- Making Requests:
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall Rosenberg
- Words that Work in Business: a Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace, by Ike Lasater
- Conversations:
- Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, by Fernando Flores
- New Ventures West curriculum (summarized in Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, by James Flaherty, New Ventures West founder)
- Conversations for Action and Collected Essays, by Fernando Flores
- Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results, by Judith E. Glaser
- You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language Stress, Anger, and Depression, by Matthew Budd and Larry Rothstein
- Vision and Personal Brand:
- 5 Steps to Build Your Personal Brand, by Thomas Smale
- Leadership Brand: Deliver on Your Promise, by David Magellan Horth, Lynn B. Miller, and Portia R. Mount of Center for Creative Leadership
- TED Talks:
- Presence:
- Presence: Bringing Your Best Self to Your Biggest Challenges, by Amy Cuddy
- Leadership Embodiment, by Wendy Palmer and Janet Crawford
References for Course
- Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- http://francescagino.com/, by Francesca Gino
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, by Shunryu Suzuki
- Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message, by Tara Mohr
- Self Awareness and the Effective Leader, by Chris Musselwhite
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brene Brown
- Transformation in Leadership, Part 1: A Developmental Study of Warren Buffett, by Edward J. Kelly
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge
- Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak, by Wendy Palmer and Janet Crawford
- The Neuroscience of Change: Why it’s Difficult and What Makes it Easier, by Sue Langley
- sevenstonesleadership.com
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall Rosenberg
- The Squeaky Wheel, by Guy Winch, PhD
- Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, by Fernando Flores
- New Ventures West curriculum (summarized in Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, by James Flaherty, New Ventures West founder)
- Conversations for Action and Collected Essays, by Fernando Flores
- Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results, by Judith E. Glaser
- You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language Stress, Anger, and Depression, by Matthew Budd and Larry Rothstein
- Authenticity:
- The Authenticity Paradox, by Herminia Ibarra
- Let Your Workers Rebel, by Francesa Gino
- Brand:
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