Leadership

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• 3 Ways to Measure Your Adaptability and How to Improve It – Natalie Fratto – TED Talk
• Blockchain: Massively Simplified – Richie Etwaru – TED Talk
• Can You Solve the Riddle?
• The Career Advice You Probably Didn’t Get – Susan Colantuono – TED Talk
• Does the Language We Use Affect Our Perception? – Monika Juodpusiene – TED Talk
• The Empathy Advantage: Hard Truths about Soft Skills (FeedForward) – Joe Hirsch
• How to Find the Person Who Can Help You Get Ahead at Work – Carla Harris – TED Talk
• How Your Brain Responds to Stories – and Why They’re Crucial for Leaders – Karen Eber – TED Talk
• Life and Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso
• The Real Reason Why We Are Tired and What to Do about It – Saundra Dalton-Smith – TED Talk
• Want to Sound Like a Leader? Start By Saying Your Name Right! – Laura Sicola – TED Talk
• What “Leaders Eat Last” Means
• Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – TED Talk
• Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe – Simon Sinek – TED Talk

• Brené Brown with Jim Collins on Curiosity, Generosity, and the Hedgehog
• Brené Brown with Jodi-Ann Burey and Ruchika Tulshyan on Imposter Syndrome
• Brené Brown with Simon Sinek on Developing an Infinite Mindset
• HBR How Managing Your Anxiety Can Make You A Better Leader with Morra Aarons-Mele 

• 6 Tips to Help Make Your Company and It’s Hiring Practices More Introvert Friendly
• Are You Suffering from Imposter Syndrome?
• Grateful Living: Lessons from a Benedictine Monk
• Harvard Law School – Six Guidelines for “Getting to Yes”
• HBR 5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently
• HBR Curiosity is as Important as Intelligence
• HBR High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety: Here’s How to Create It
• HBR High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values
• How to Hire for Potential
• The Neuroscience of Gratitude and Effects on the Brain
• McKinsey 7-S Framework for Organizational Effectiveness
• Practicing Gratitude Comes with Legit Health Benefits
• Procrastination is More Than “I Don’t Want to Do It”
• Replace I’m Sorry with Thank You
• Stanford Business – All the Feels: Why It Pays to Notice Emotions in the Workplace
• What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? (Cognitive Bias)

Leadership 

• Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George
• Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity through Business by John Mackey and Steve Mcintosh
• Dare To Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
• The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman
• The Enneagram at Work: Unlocking the Power of Type to Lead and Succeed by Jim McPartlin and Anna Akbari
• Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots and Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You or Your Team by Simon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Gallup Organization
• Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., John Christensen, Harry Paul, and Ken Blanchard
• Get Anyone To Do Anything by David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.
• Get Everyone in Your Boat Rowing in the Same Direction: 5 Leadership Principles to Follow So Others Will Follow You by Bob Boylan
• Get Out of Your Own Way: The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone's Expectations by Robert K. Cooper
• Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
• Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In an Uncertain World by Bob Rosen
• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
• Inclusive Leadership, Global Impact by Ernest Gundling and Cheryl Williams
• Intelligent Disobedience: The Difference between Good and Great Leaders by Bob McGannon
• Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff
• Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger by Nancy Giordano
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
• Leaders: Myth and Reality by General Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers, and Jay Mangone
• Leaders without Titlesby Stephen J. Sampson
• The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
• Leadership: Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse
• The One Thing You Need to Know: About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham
• Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong by Kristen Hadeed
• Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting With Others through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassionby Richard E. Boyatzis and Annie McKee
• Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results by Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
• Stop The Meeting, I Want To Get Off! How to Manage Your Team without Meetings by Scott Snair
• Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
• Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman

Followership

• The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To & For Our Leaders by Ira Chaleff
• Creative Followership: In the Shadow of Greatness by Jim Collins and Michael Cooley
• Embracing Followership: How to Thrive In a Leader-Centric Culture by Allen Hamlin Jr.
• Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders by Barbara Kellerman
• Followership: The Leadership Principle That No One Is Talking About by Tracey Armstrong
• Followership: Servant Leaders. Serving Leaders by Stephen Caldwell and Michael Brown
• Leadership Is Half the Story: A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration by Marc Hurwitz and Samantha Hurwitz
• The Power of Followership: How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow, and Followers Who Lead Themselves by Robert E. Kelley

Mindfulness 

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic by Stephen R. Covey
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
• The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
• Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Believe IT: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable by Jamie Kern Lima
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
• Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
• Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and life by Bob Rosen and Emma-Kate Swann
• The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits by Judson Brewer and Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D.
• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
• Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
• How to Win Friends and Influence Peopleby Dale Carnegie
• How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie and Associates
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
• How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
• The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Gallup
• Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance by Dr. Jason Selk and Dr. Ellen Reed
• Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving In the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
• Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
• The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World by Jamil Zaki

More Knowledge

• The 10Ks of Personal Branding: Create a Better You by Kaplan Mobray
• Clarity: How Smart Professionals Create Career Success by Debbie Peterson
• Deserts to Mountaintops: Our Collective Journey To (Re) Claiming Our Voice by Jessica Buchanan
• Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
• The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen
• The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
• Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath 
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs [Objectives and Key Results] by John Doerr
• Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck by Spencer Johnson, M.D. 
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph In a Specialized World by David Epstein
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*Ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
• Up, Down, Or Sideways: How to Succeed When Times Are Good, Bad, Or In Between by Mark Sanborn
• When: The Scientific Secrets Of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

Non-Profit

• Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant

Finance

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, and John Case
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Organizational Behavior

• The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
• Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leadership Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear by Richard Sheridan and Tom Peters
• The Difference: When Good Enough Isn't Enoughby Subir Chowdhury
• The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson
• The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson
• The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change by Joe Hirsch
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... And Others Don't by Jim Collins
• Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen
• Meetings Suck: Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable by Cameron Herold
• The No Asshole Rule: Building A Civilized Workplace And Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D.
• The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability by Roger Connors and Tom Smith
• Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired By the Next Stage in Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber
• Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Successby Lou Holtz

Change Management

• The Future is Faster than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series) by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. Christensen
• Leading Change by John P. Kotter
• Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges and Susan Bridges
• The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy and Successful At Work and In Life by Spencer Johnson, M.D. 
• Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Communication

• The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People by Gary Chapman and Paul White
• How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening by Julian Treasure
• Message Received: 7 Steps to Break Down Communication Barriers at Work by Mary Donohue
• Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
• What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide To Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins, Ph.D. 
• Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz

Training

• All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things by Robert Fulghum
• The Invisible Gorilla: Thinking Clearly In a World of Illusions by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
• Telling Ain't Trainingby Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps
• You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices by Swen Nater and Ronald Gallimore

Presentations

• DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action through Story by Nancy Duarte
• The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up! And Own the Room by Timothy J. Koegel
• Illuminate: Ignite Change through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols by Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez
• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great In Front Of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo
• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
• Slide: Ology: The Art And Science Of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
• Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo

• Followership Dr. Brad Gronke
• The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations
• Resistance: The Repercussions of Change

Assessments

• 16 Personalities Test
• Big Five Personality Traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism)
• DiSC Personality Assessment
• Enneagram Personality Test
• Myers Briggs 16 Personalities Typefinder Personality Test

Activities

• The Change Game: Engaging Exercises to Teach Change
• Spent

•  Compass (free leadership workshops) 

• International Leadership Association

• Leadership Essentials Cornell Certificate Program
• Georgetown University Organization Development Consulting and Change Leadership
• Harvard University Leadership Certificate
• Howard University Online MBA
• The Institutes CPCU(Insurance / Finance)
• Lake Forest Graduate School of Management MBA
• University of Pennsylvania Wharton Leadership and Management Certificate Program

• Blue Circle Leadership
• DCM
• Dr. Ellen Reed
• Simon Sinek

• 11 Common Grammar Mistakes
• 528Hz – Whole Body Regeneration – Full Body Healing – Emotional and Physical
• Best Inspiring Music Mix
• Deep Brain Stimulation: Music for Concentrating, Better Learning, Productivity, and Focus
• Electric Five Minute Countdown
• Free Photos for Presentations
• Leadership Quotes

• The 7 Dimensions of Wellness
• The Deming Cycle (Plan Do Study Act)
• National Center for Emotional Wellness
• The Pomodoro Technique (Time Management)
• The Prosci ADKAR Model for Change Management