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Deep Change: Discovering the leader within
by Robert Quinn

Deep Change offers a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power and learning the most important skill of all to triumph in the face of change: to "know thyself." Quinn demonstrates the crucial importance of deep change as the path to self-understanding and the key to revitalization of the individual and the organization. By finding our own moral core and beginning to see ourselves and our organizations in new and more productive ways, he explains, we can transform ourselves from victims to powerful agents of change.

Leadership Can Be Taught
by Sharon Daloz Parks

Step inside the classroom of Harvard leadership virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues to experience a dynamic type of leadership and a corresponding mode of learning called "case-in-point." This unique approach utilizes students' own experiences — and the classroom environment itself — as a "studio-laboratory" for working through the types of challenges people actually face in today's workplace.

Leadership on the Line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading
by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky

For all its passion and promise, excitement and rewards, leading is risky, dangerous work. Because real leadership — the kind that surfaces conflict, challenges long-held beliefs and demands new ways of doing things — causes pain. And when people feel threatened, they take aim at the person pushing for change. As a result, leaders often get hurt both personally and professionally.

Harvard professors Heifetz and Linsky show that it is possible to put ourselves on the line, respond effectively to the risks and live to celebrate our efforts.

The Answer to How Is Yes:
Acting on what matters
by Peter Block

People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature, keep people paralyzed. Here he places the "how to" craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers, and managers ways to act on what they know. This in turn allows them to reclaim their freedom and capacity to create the kind of world they want to live in. Block’s "elements of choice" — the characteristic of a new workplace and a new world based on more positive values — include self-mentoring, investing in relationships, accepting the unpredictability of life, and realizing that the individual prospers only when the community does.

“It is entirely possible to spend our days engaged in activities that work well for us and achieve our objectives, and still wonder whether we are really making a difference in the world.… My wish is that we exchange what we know how to do for what means most to us.” — Peter Block

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering order in a chaotic world
by Margaret J. Wheatley

Living in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities, we need new ideas, new ways of seeing. Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. She teaches us how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape.

Leading Change
by John P. Kotter

Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to foster a sense of urgency within the organization. Twenty-first century business change must overcome overmanaged and underled cultures. Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in this century leaders need to be much more skilled at creating leaders. Kotter also identifies pitfalls to be avoided, like big egos and personalities that can undermine a successful change effort. Kotter argues for the promotion and recognition of teams rather than individuals. He concludes with an emphasis on lifelong learning. “In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.”