By Al Watts
Learn how to be a "triple-E" (effective, engaging and ethical) leader and organization by mastering four integrity challenges: Identity, Authenticity, Alignment and Accountability. My new book goes beyond integrity as a desirable character trait, and positions it at the heart of sustainable cultures and business strategy.
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By Dov Seidman This book underscores the reality that “it’s practical to be principled.” Seidman clearly explains why today competitive advantage is dependent more than ever before on how services and products are delivered, vs just what. Included are sections on leading with values, the damage of dissonance and the importance of alignment, the value of transparency in a hyperconnected world, and the limitations of rules and compliance based systems. Seidman’s comprehensive “Leadership Framework” model alone is worth the cost of this book.
By Marilyn Carlson Nelson This is a compact inspirational book by Carlson Companies’ Chairperson, co-founder of the University of Minnesoa’s Center for Integrative Leadership and named as “one of America’s best leaders” by U.S. News and World Report. Each page is a story from Marilyn’s professional or personal life accompanied by an inspirational quotation and lessons about leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurism and stewardship.
By Steven L Carter I agree with Stephen Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University: “(Our) celebration of integrity is intriguing: we seem to carry on a passionate love affair with a word that we scarcely pause to define.” In this book Professor Carter delineates three conditions of integrity: discerning one’s deepest understanding of right and wrong, acting consistently with what one has learned, and a willingness to state publicly how we are acting consistently with what we believe is right. He applies this framework to multiple scenarios including religion, politics, journalism, marriage, sports and business.
By John Kao As the author states, “escaping the stagnation of the status quo, of the risk-free life, is part of the exhilaration of jamming – in music and in business.” This handy guide uses jazz metaphors for highlighting the importance of a creative organization culture and how to craft them.
By Kevin Cashman In his second edition of this classic, Kevin devotes a chapter each to Personal Mastery, Purpose Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Change Mastery, Resilience Mastery and Being Mastery. This updated version builds on the first edition and masterfully connects timeless, enduring principles of human development and life effectiveness with leadership effectiveness. Here is a provocative, inspirational book to help you grow as a person and as a leader, and to leverage the concepts shared for increased organizational effectiveness.
By Max DePree This is a timeless book by the Chairman of Herman Miller, the furniture company that regularly appears in Fortune Magazine’s list of most admired companies. Just as skilled jazz musicians, DePree tells us, a leader’s primary job is to “connect voice with touch.” Included here are lessons about making and keeping promises, leading with heart, the gift of diversity, setting the tone while nurturing creativity, delegating and “polishing our gifts.”
By Stephen Young Stephen Young is Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table, or CRT, an international network of senior executives dedicated to advancing moral capitalism globally. Moral Capitalism makes it clear that profits and virtuous business are not mutually exclusive, and calls on us to choose not one or the other, but a “third way;” that way is characterized by the Caux Round Table’s seven Principles for Business. The book expands on each principle, provides CRT standards for applying it with each stakeholder group beyond shareholders, and builds in an assessment for how readers’ organizations are meeting the standards.
By Doug Lennick, Fred Kiel Doug Lennick, a former Amex top executive, and Fred Kiel do a masterful job of distinguishing moral intelligence from the balance of “threshold competencies” required for leadership excellence. They focus on four universal principles that are vital for sustained personal and organizational success: integrity, responsibility, compassion and forgiveness, noting that “integrity is the hallmark of the morally intelligent person.” This is a superbly researched book with many practical examples that will help readers build their “moral compass,” stay true to their moral compass, lead their organizations more effectively and live their lives more fully.
By Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton Buckingham and Clifton ignited the “know your strengths” concept, an essential element of “Identity” in my book Navigating Integrity . . . This book includes a unique code for you to access the internet-based StrengthsFinder Profile, research-based evidence of why leading with our strengths is critical, and tools for leveraging strengths for powerful results at three levels: personally / professionally, as a manager / leader and organizationally.
By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee This refreshed edition by the authors of their groundbreaking work illustrates the power—and the necessity—of leadership that is self-aware, empathic, motivating, and collaborative in a world that is ever more economically volatile and technologically complex. It is even timelier now than when it was originally published.
