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Recommended reading

Looking for the some thought-provoking reading on leadership and coaching? Want to enhance your coaching and leadership capability? Enjoy the FPG recommended reading list below:


Coaching 

 

 

Co-active Coaching

L Whitworth, H Kimsey-House,
P Sandahl

Davies-Black Publishing (1998)

Masterful Coaching

R Hargrove

Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer (1995)

Coaching Skills

J Rogers

Open University Press (2004)

Coach Yourself

A Grant, J Greene

Pearson Education (2001)

The Psychology of Executive Coaching 

B Peltier

Taylor & Francis (2001)

www.apecs.org  

Coach accreditation organisation

 

www.associationforcoaching.com

 

 

www.coachingandmentoring.co.uk  

 

 

Presence 

 

 

Human Purpose and the Field of the Future

P Senge, CO Schwarmer, J Jaworski, BS Flowers

Society for Organisational Learning Learning (2004)

Presence

P Rodenburg

Penguin (2007)

Leadership 

 

 

A Manager’s Guide To Leadership

M Pedler, J Burgoyne, T Boydell

McGraw Hill (2004)

Intelligent Leadership

Alistair Mant

Allen & Unwin (1999) 

The New Leaders

D Goleman, R Boyatzis, A McKee

Time Warner (2002) 

Leadership and the New Science

M Wheatley

Berrett-Koehler Publisher (1999) 

The Seven Ages of The Leader

Warren Bennis

Harvard Business Review (Jan 2004)

The Handbook for Leaders
24 lessons of extraordinary leadership

J Zenger, J Folkman

McGraw Hill (2007)

The 18 Challenges of Leadership

T Waldock & S Kelly-Rawat

Pearson Prentice-Hall (2004) 

Why Should Anyone be Led by You?

R Goffee, G Jones

Harvard Business School Press (2006) 

Management 

 

 

A Manager’s Guide to Self-Development

M Pedler, J Burgoyne, T Bodell

McGraw-Hill (2001)  

First Break All the Rules

M Buckingham, C Coffman  

Pocket Books (2005) 

Managing Talented People

A Robertson, G Abbey 

Pearson Education (2003) 

Leadership and Self-Deception

 

The Arbinger Institute 

Systems Thinking for Harassed Managers

N McCaughan, B Palmer 

Karnac Books (1994) 

Teams 

 

 

The Wisdom of Teams

J Katzenbach, D Smith

McGraw Hill (1993) 

Winning Teams, Winning Cultures 

L Senn, J Hart 

Senn Delaney (2006) 

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

P Lencioni 

Jossey Bass (2002) 

Working it out at Work
Understanding attitudes & building relationships

 

J Hay

Sherwood (1993)  

Organisational 

 

 

Organizational Consulting

E Nevis 

Gestalt Institute Press (1998) 

Dialogue – The Art of Thinking Together

W Issacs 

Random House (1999) 

How the Way we Talk can Change the Way we Work

R Kegan, L Lahey

Jossey Bass (2001)   

The Deep Democracy of Open Forums

Arnold Mindell 

Hampton Roads Publishing (2002) 

Working Below the Surface
The emotional life of contemporary organisations

C Huffington, D Armstrong, W Halton,
L Hoyle, J Pooley
 

Karnac Books (2004) 

The Accelerating Organisation
Embracing the human face of change 

A Maira, P Scott-Morgan  

McGraw Hill (1997) 

Strategic Management & Organisational Dynamics

R Stacey

Pearson Education (2007)  

Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay 

H Schwartz 

New York University Press (1990) 

Consulting for Real People
A client centred approach for change agents & leaders

P Cockman, B Evans, P Reynolds 

McGraw Hill (1999) 

Terrors and Experts

A Phillips 

Faber & Faber (1995) 

Seeing Systems

Barry Oshry 

Berrett Koehler Publishing (1996) 

Learning for Action
Short definitive account of soft systems methodology

P Checkland, J Poultier 

John Wiley & Sons (2006) 

Influence 

 

 

Influence without Authority

A Cohen, D Bradford 

Wiley & Sons (2005)  

Agreed! 

T Gillen 

CIPD (2004) 

Confidence

 

 

The Dangers of Feeling Like a Fake

M de Vries, F R Kets

Harvard Business Review (Sep 2005) 

Confidence

R Moss Kanter 

Random House (2004)  

General 

 

 

Happier

Tal Ben Sharar  

 

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz  

 

Awaken the Giant Within

Anthony Robbins 

Scribner and Sons 

The Journey

Brandon Bays 

Thorsons 

Instant Stress Management 

Brian Clegg 

Kogan Page 

Take Time for your Life 

Cheryl Richardson 

Bantam Books 

Change your Brain, Change your Life

Daniel G. Amen 

Times Books  

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle 

Hodder & Stoughton 

Managing Anger

Gael Lindenfield 

Thorsons 

Your Best Year Yet

Jinny Ditzler 

Thorsons 

Minding the Body, Mending the Mind 

Joan Borysenko 

Bantam Books 

Take Yourself to the Top

Laura Berman-Fortgang 

Thorsons 

Power Thought Cards

Louise Hay 

Hay House Inc. 

Learned Optimism

Martin Seligman 

 

The Power of Positive Thinking 

Norman Vincent Peale 

Hutchinson 

Clarity Quest

Pamela Ammondson 

Simon & Schuster 

Creative Visualisation

Shakti Gawain 

Bantam Books 

Getting Unstuck

Sidney B Simon 

Warner Books 

Who Moved my Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

Vermillion  

7 Habits of Highly-Effective People 

Stephen Covey 

Simon & Schuster 

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Susan Jeffers 

Rider 

Success is Not an Accident

Tom Newbury 

Looking Glass 

Manifest Your Destiny 

Wayne W. Dyer 

Thorsons