Are you looking to continue your growth process? The Coach recommends these books to help support you on your way.
The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Jack Canfield (Author)
When it comes to success, Canfield knows of what he speaks. He presents 64 success principles that he claims “always work”—and draws on his own experience and that of others to illustrate them. Sixty-four principles may seem like a lot, but each receives a concise, easy-to-digest chapter that challenges readers to risk creating their lives exactly as they want them. Many of the principles are familiar—e.g., “Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life”—but Canfield has a nifty way of summarizing them (“Reject rejection”), and some are inventive: “Become an Inverse Paranoid” means see the world as out to help you instead of out to get you.
A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose [Kindle Edition]
Eckhart Tolle (Author)
According to Tolle, who assumes the role of narrator as well, humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our ever-expanding egos.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High [Paperback]
Kerry Patterson (Author), Joseph Grenny (Author), Ron McMillan (Author), Al Switzler (Author), Stephen R. Covey (Foreword)
When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life’s most difficult and important conversations, say what’s on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want.
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results [Hardcover]
Stephen C. Lundin (Author), Harry Paul (Author), John Christensen (Author), Ken Blanchard (Foreword)
Here’s another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source–this time it’s the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle’s Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to engineer a turnaround of her company’s troubled operations department, a group that authors Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen describe as a “toxic energy dump.” Most reasonable heads would cut their losses and move on. Why bother with this bunch of losers? But the authors don’t make it so easy for Mary Jane. Instead, she’s left to sort out this mess with the help of head fishmonger Lonnie.
StrengthsFinder 2.0 [Hardcover]
Tom Rath (Author)
Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover their top five talents. In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades. Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself — and the world around you — forever.
Open Sesame: Why It’s All About ACCESS for the New Worker of the 21st Century [Hardcover]
Marilyn L. Carpenter (Author)
A lot of business self-help books promise to show you the road to prosperity. But Marilyn Carpenter’s OPEN SESAME: Why It’s All About ACCESS for the New Worker of the 21st Century actually delivers by unlocking the secret behind the power that you hold – right now – to find and do meaningful, productive work and live a prosperous life. Written against the backdrop of our global age and the post-2008 recession, there are solid answers here for anyone with enough desire and willingness to do the work to become an
