What We Are Reading
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Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, and Why by Stephen Martin & Joseph Marks
Identifying who we listen to and why is fundamental to understanding the key dynamics of leadership, power, and our day-to-day…
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Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood, Professor of Psychology and Business at USC, draws on 30 years of research to explain the fascinating science…
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The Power of Feedback: 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from Others into Personal and Professional Change by Joseph R. Folkman
Who doesn’t dread being asked “Can I give you some feedback?” We know we’re supposed to answer “yes” and then…
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The Neuroscience of Coaching by By Richard E. Boyatzis and Anthony Jack (Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 2018, Vol. 70, No. 1, 11-27)
Research article from Richard Boyatzis and Anthony Jack in which brain imaging is used to examine the impact of two…
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How Leadership Reputations Are Won and Lost by Dr. Richard Ford
Ask a leader about their performance, they typically describe what they’ve accomplished. But ask others and they will describe how…
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Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King
King, professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale, explores how our personal habits around networking impact our careers, ideas, health and…
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The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
With so many of us stuck working from home, it is inevitable that feelings of isolation and loneliness have soared.…
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Influencing Virtual Teams: 17 Tactics That Get Things Done with Your Remote Employees by Hassan Osman
With millions of leaders and their team members self-quarantined , Zoom et al. have become not only professional lifelines, but…
THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG by Amy C. Edmondson
Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, best known for pioneering the concept of psychological safety, turns her attention to the paradox at the heart of innovation: failure is essential to progress, yet not all failures are created equal. In The Right Kind of Wrong , Edmondson provides a practical framework for distinguishing between failures that fuel learning and those that…
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Many believe that race is a topic best left alone in polite company. But how can we tackle problems around…
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh-grade math in the ’90s when she…
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Anders Ericsson, PhD, professor of psychology at Florida State University, distills his three decades of research that has revolutionized how…
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What is happiness? In this classic book from 1990, psychologist Csikszentmihalyi (easy for you to say) provides a compelling and…
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Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
In order to become great at something, we must abandon the belief that greatness is something people are born with.…
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Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkins and Eve Turner
Born out of the world of counseling, psychotherapy, etc., executive coaching has traditionally focused on improving the performance and wellbeing…
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Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Another year begins and so many of us resolve to improve. If our goals feel familiar, it’s probably because we…
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The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
“What gets measured gets done” quoted Tom Peters in 1982’s In Search of Excellence , and so the practice of…