Elfego Gomez’ Recommended Reading

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IN RED

LEADERSHIP

FYI:  For Your Improvement A Guide for Development and Coaching, Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner

A Leaders Legacy, James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Leadership and the Sexes, Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis

The Organization Kid, David Brooks, Atlantic Monthly-April 2001

The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni

Hollow Men at the Helm, Sandra Waddock, BizEd-July/August 2004

Shackleton’s Way, Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell

TEAMS

The Wisdom of Teams, J.R. Katzenbach  

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki

First, Break all the Rules-What the World’s Greatest Managers do Differently, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni

ORGANIZATIONS 

Google: Take Two – Google Is #1 on this year’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Places to Work Institute, Inc. 2008

Death By Meeting, Patrick Lencioni

My Week as a Room-Service Waiter at the Ritz, Paul Hemp, Harvard Business Review-June 2002

The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge

Disruptive Innovation for Social Change, Clayton M Christensen, Harvard Business Review-December 2006 

The War for Talent, Charles Fishman, Fast Company, December, 2007

Managing Transitions: Making The Most Of Change, William Bridges

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, John Kotter, Harvard Business Review-March 2005

The Art of Appreciative Inquiry, Theodore Kinni, The Harvard Business School Working Knowledge for Business Leaders Newsletter-September 2003