Recommended Reading List

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Self-Awareness

  **The Human Element, Will Schutz, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1994 (NOTE: PPI's totally biased opinion of Dr. Will Schutz's best book!)

   **The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Nathaniel Branden, Bantam Books, New York, 1994 (NOTE: PPI's top reference for the self-esteem)

  **How We Choose to Be Happy, Rick Foster & Greg Hicks, G.P. Putnams Sons, New York, 1999 (NOTE: A great book about choice and attitude . . . written by two men who traveled across the U.S. interviewing "happy people")

  **The Truth Option, Will Schutz, 10 Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1984 (NOTE: A precurser to The Human Element that is chock full of questions, exercises and  activities . . . "a personal workshop that only requires you, your pencil, and your most honest response.")

    Joy: 20 Years Later, Will Schutz, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1989

    Profound Simplicity, Will Schutz, Will Schutz Associates (WSA), Mill Valley, CA, 1979

    Elements of Encounter, Will Schutz, Joy Press, Big Sur, CA , 1973

 **Presence, Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers, SoL (Society for Organizational Learning, Inc.) Cambridge, MA 2004

**Integral Life Practice, Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli, Integral Books, Boston, 2008 (NOTE: Superb new book on living an integral nlife)
 

Systems Thinking

  **The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge, Doubleday, New York, 1990 (NOTE: The seminal work on systems thinking)

  **The Fifth Discipline Field book, Peter M. Senge et. al., Doubleday, New York, 1994 (NOTE: A wonderful book that's best used as a systems thinking desk reference)

     Reflections On Creating Learning Organizations, Pegasus Communications, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1994  

Emotional Intelligence

  **Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2002 (NOTE: Goleman's best book combining
                                                                                                                                                                                 two  critical issues of emotional intelligence and leadership)

** Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2005 (NOTE: A most wonderful book about leadership and
                                                                                                                                                                                                     benevolence, compassion, optimism, and hope)

**Becoming a Resonant Leader, Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis, & Frances Johnston, Harvard Business Press, 2008 (NOTE: A hands on workbook to accompany Resonant Leadership book above)                                                                                                                                                                                                        

  **Destructive Emotions, Daniel Goleman & the Dalai Lama, Bantam Books, New York, 2003

  **Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman, Harmony Books, New York, 2001

    Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Bantam Books, New York, 1995

    Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Bantam Books, New York, 1997

    Emotional Awareness, A Conversation Between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, PH.D., Times Books, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 2008, (NOTE: A new book on the nature of emotions by perhaps the two  greatest experts in the world)

    Emotions Revealed, Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life, Paul Ekman, Holt Paperbacks, Henry Holt & Company,

                    New York, 2003

Strategy

  **The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2001(NOTE: the best book covering all of the Balanced Scorecard methodology including wonderful examples of strategy maps)

  **Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step, Paul R. Niven, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002 (NOTE: A wonderful step by step explanation of the Balanced Scorecard)

    The Balanced Scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1996

    Strategy Maps, Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2004

    Alignment, Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2006

    Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics, Paul R. Niven, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2005

Leadership

  **On Leadership, John W. Gardner (NOTE: The very first must read on leadership)

  **Management of Organizational Behavior, Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard & Dewey E, Johnson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 1996 (NOTE: A desk side reference covering most of management theory and a complete explanation of the Situational Leadership Model, a most practical model for leaders)

  **Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen R. Covey, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990 (NOTE: Covey's book that followed The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People incorporating those principles with a  focus on leadership)

  **The Leadership Challenge, James S. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002 (NOTE: New book to PPI . . . wonderful in every way!)

    The Leadership Challenge Workbook, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2003 (NOTE: A great workbook for individual or group use)

    Leadership in Organizations, Gary Yukl, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002

    Leadership From the Inside Out, Kevin Cashman, TCLG, 1998 (NOTE: #1 National Bestseller)

    Lincoln On Leadership, Donald T. Phillips, Warner Books, 1992 (NOTE: First submission from a USFW employee after looking at our reading list . . .a Great Book!)

** On Becoming A Leader, Warren Bennis, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1989 (NOTE: A must read on the "how" of leadership)

Servant-Leadership (NOTE: PPI recommended leadership philosophy)

    The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse, The Noonday Press, New York, 1956 (NOTE: The book that spurred Robert Greenleaf to develop his theory of servant-leadership . . . a fast but must read for servant leader advocates!)

**Practicing Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears and Michelle Lawrence, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2004

**Focus on Leadership, Essays on Servant-Leadership by several influential people, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002

**Insights on Leadership, Essays on Servant-Leadership

**The Power of Servant-Leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 1998

    Robert K. Greenleaf, Don M. Frick, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2004

  Mentoring

  **Tao Mentoring, Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch, Marlowe and Company, New York, 1995 (NOTE: A profound work setting mentoring in a very unique way focused on collaborative relationships)

  **Masterful Coaching, Robert Hargrove, Jossey Bass/Pfeiffer, San Francisco, 1999 (NOTE: The guru on coaching)

**Masterful Coaching Fieldbook, Robert Hargrove, Jossey Bass/Pfeiffer, San Francisco, 2000

Dialogue

 **Unfolding Meaning, David Bohm, Routledge, New York, 1985 (NOTE: Seminal work focused on a weekend with the quantum physicist in dialogue)

**Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs, Doubleday, New York, 1999 (NOTE: Perhaps the best book explaining dialogue

Miscellaneous Wonderful Readings Specifically PPI Recommended

    A Simpler Way, Margaret J. Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, 1996

    Self-Esteem At Work, Nathaniel Branden, Jossey-Bass, San Franacisco, 1998   

    Essential Spirituality, Roger Walsh, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999

    The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Alice Miller, Basic Books, 1997

Stories

Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart (Parables of the Spiritual Path from Around the World), Edited by Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield

             Harper San Francisco, 1991(NOTE: Wonderful collection of stories and parables for life's learning)

Soul Food (Stories to Nourish the Spirit & the Heart), Jack Kornfield & Christina Feldman, Harper San Francisco, 1996

**PPI first choices