The following list of recommended books and websites is based upon our monthly Principles & Practices curriculum.  

Positive Attitude

Recommended Books:

• Courage: The Backbone of Leadership – Gus Lee
• Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know – John Maxwell
• Enthusiasm Makes the Difference – Norman Vincent Peale
• Awaken the Giant Within – Anthony Robbins

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_%28psychology%29
• Simple Truths: www.powerofattitudemovie.com
• Center for Courage & Renewal: www.CourageRenewal.org

Serving

Recommended Books:

• On Becoming a Servant Leader – Robert K. Greenleaf
• The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle – How to Become a Servant Leader – James C. Hunter
• The Theology of the Hammer – The Creation of Habitat for Humanity – Millard Fuller
• Reflections on Leadership – How the Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today’s Top Management Thinkers – Edited by Larry Spears
• The Leadership Bible: Sid Buzzell – General Editor
• Stewardship – Choosing Service Over Self-Interest – Peter Block

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/serving/
• Center for Servant-Leadership: http://www.greenleaf.org
• Spears Center for Servant-Leadership: http://www.spearscenter.org
• Center for FaithWalk Leadership: www.faithwalkleadership.com

Communicating

Recommended Books:

• The Revolutionary Communicator: Jedd Medefind
• Fierce Communications: Achieving Success at Work& in Life One Conversation at a Time – Susan Scott
• Letter from the Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Crucial Conversations: Kerry Patterson
• Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together – William Issacs

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating
• International Listening Leadership Institute: ww.listeningleaders.com
• Fierce Communications: www.fierceinc.com

Trust

Recommended Books:

• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything - Stephen Covey
• Trust – Julio Olalla
• Trust: The Social Virtues & the Creation of Prosperity - Francis Fukuyama
• Success Built to Last - Jerry Porras & Stewart Emery
• The Success Principles – Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
• What's So Great About America – Dinesh D'Souza
• Berkshire-Hathaway Annual Reports

Recommended Websites:

• CoveyLink: http://www.coveylink.com/
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trust
• Who Trusts You: www.whotrustsyou.com
• Josephson Institute: http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/
• The Natinal Alliance for the Public Trust:www.thepublictrust.org
• Trustee Leadership Development: www.tld.com

Purpose

Recommended Books:

• Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet – Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon
• Managing Oneself: Peter Drucker – Harvard Business Review
• It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For – Why Every Extraordinary Business is Driven by Purpose – Roy M. Spence, Jr.
• The Power of Purpose – Richard J. Leider
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• The Purpose Driven Life – What on Earth am I Here For – Rick Warren
• LifeLaunch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life – Frederic Hudson

Recommended Websites:

• The Inventure Group: www.inventuregroup.com
• Wikipedia; www.wikipedia.org/wiki/purpose/
• The Purpose Prize: http://www.encore.org/prize
• The Purpose Project at: www.purposeproject.org
• Drive: http://www.danpink.com/drive
• Good Work: http://www.goodwork.org/

Learning

Recommended Books:

• Primal Leadership - Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence; Daniel Goleman
• The Leadership Summit on Learning From Other Leaders - Willow Creek Association
• Leadership and the New Science": Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe - Margaret Wheatley
• The Courage to Teach": Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life - Parker J. Palmer
• Spiritual Direction : Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith - Henri Nouwen

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia; www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning
• Wisdom; http://www.wisdombook.org/
• Center for Courage & Renewal; http://www.couragerenewal.org/
• Society for Organizational Learning;http://www.solonline.org/
• The Trinity Forum;http://www.ttf.org

Spirituality

Recommended Books:

• Spiritual Direction - Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith - Henri Nouwen
• American Gospel - God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation - John Meacham
• Spirited Leading & Learning - Process Wisdom for a New Age - Peter Vaill
• Faith & Fortune - The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business - Marc Gunther
• Encouraging the Heart - A Leaders Guide to Rewarding Others - James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia; www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality
• Max DePree Center for Leadership; www.depree.org
• The Greenleaf Center; www.greenleaf.org
• Center for Ethical Leadership; www.ethicalleadership.org
• Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace; www.spiritualityandtheworkplace.ca
• The Heartland Circle; www.heartlandcircle.com

Executing

Recommended Books:

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done – Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life – One Conversations at a Time – Susan Scott
• True North – Bill George
• Leadership – Rudi Guiliani
• Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury
• Confronting Reality – Doing What Matters to Get Things Right - Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
• The Future of Management – Gary Hamel

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/execution/
• True North: http://truenorthleaders.com/

Visioning

Recommended Books:

• When Character Was King - A Story of Ronald Reagan - Peggy Noonan
• Visionary Leadership - Burt Nanus
• The Art of the Long View  - Peter Schwartz
• From Success to Significance - LLoyd Reeb
• Gandhi - An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Long Walk to Freedom  - Nelson Mandela

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia; www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision
• HalfTime Networks; www.halftime.org
• The Inventure Group; www.inventuregroup.com
• Future Search; www.futuresearch.net
• Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership ; www.greenleaf.org
• Life Entrepreneurs--Leadership and Personal Development, Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek; www.lifeentrepreneurs.com
• Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara; www.hudsoninstitute.com

Respect

Recommended Books:

• Respect: Gaining It and Sustaining It – N. Taiwo
• The Dialogue Guidebook – From Respectful Conversations to Committed Action – Vail Leadership Institute
• Synchronicity – Joseph Jaworski
• Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together – William Issacs
• On Dialogue – David Bohm
• The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/respect/
• Josephson Institute: http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/
• Respect Research Group: http://www.respectresearchgroup.org/
• Good Character: http://www.goodcharacter.com/
• Open Space Technology: www.openspaceworld.org

Integrity

Recommended Books:

• Gandhi – An Autobiography – The Story of my Experiments with Truth – Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Let Your Life Speak – Listening for the Voice of Vocation – Parker Palmer
• What Color is a Conservative – J.C. Watts
• True North – Bill George
• Leading Without Power – Finding Hope in Serving Community – Max DePree
• Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality – Henry Cloud

Recommended Websites:

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity
• The Josephson Institute at: www.josephsoninstitute.org
• Wikipedia; www.wikipedia.org/wiki/integrity
• Ethics Resource Center at: www.ethics.org

Commitment

Recommended Books:

• The Four Agreements - A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Cathedral Within – Bill Shore
• Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
• Shackleton’s Way – Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer – Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell
• The Speed of Trust- The One Thing that Changes Everything - Stephen M.R. Covey

Recommended Websites:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/commitment/
• Josephson Institute – Character Counts: http://www.josephsoninstitute.org
• True North: http://truenorthleaders.com/
• Who Trusts You – Covey-Link: - http://www.whotrustsyou.com/