Culture, Leadership, Change Book tips

It's great to read an adventure story, a detective, or a novel once it's summer. However, if you feel you'd like to catch up on culture, leadership, and change here's my list of favorite non-fiction books at this point.

On positive leadership, change, and culture

Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self Deception - Getting out of the box (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2nd edition, 2015)

Kim Cameron, Positive Leadership - Strategies for extraordinary performance, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008)

Kim Cameron, Practicing Positive Leadership - Tools and techniques that create extraordinary results, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013)

Jane Dutton, Gretchen Spreitzer, How to Be a Positive Leader - Small Actions, Big Impact, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014)

Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless, The surprising power of Liberating Structures (Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless, 2013)

Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, Steven Cady, The Change Handbook, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007)

Robert Quinn, The positive organization - breaking free from conventional cultures, constraints and beliefs, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015)

Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Kae Rader, Appreciative Leadership - Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization (McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler - Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking When Stakes are High (McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition,2011)

Sue Knight, NLP at Work - The Essence of Excellence (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, third edition, 2009)

Marcella Bremer, Organizational Culture Change - Unleashing your organization’s potential in Circles of 10 (Kikker Groep Publishing, 2012)

Marcella Bremer, Developing a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive (Motivational Press, 2018).

More book tips?

I haven't read everything that I wanted to read yet. These books are on my list thanks to the tips of my valued colleagues:

• Wholeness in a Disruptive World by Wendy Tan. (Thanks, Chris Huntington).
• An Everyone Culture, by Kegan and Lahey. (Thanks, Andrew Bennett).
• The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. (Thanks, Wally Bock).
• The Culture Engine by Chris Edmonds.

Feel free to add your tips in the comments. Have a great summer everyone! Don't forget to relax and recharge for a rocking second half of the year! Safe travels.

© Marcella Bremer

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