Mid-December 2021 Book Club Selection-Jon Gordon and P.J. Fleck, ROW THE BOAT, Wiley 2021. This new book by the authors looks at the success of a team based on a row your boat strategy. As most of the other books by Gordon, a unique approach to leadership using a simple approach that can be used by other leaders to help improve performance and lead to more successful outcomes is employed.
December 2021 Book Club Selection- Stephen Fried-RUSH, Broadway Books, 2018. Dr. benjamin Rush was one of our Founding Fathers. In addition to his being a leading Physicians of the revolutionary period, he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was the leaders in the mental health treatment movement. He did not want to serve in the political realm but did try to influence it. In later years, Rush was able to get Presidents Adams and Jefferson to reestablish their correspondence with each other. Rush was a leader and deserves more attention than he has received. I strongly recommend that leaders read his biography.
Mid-November 2021 Book Club Selection- L. David Marquet, TURN THE SHIP AROUND, Penguin Business, 2019. This book tells the story of leadership on a nuclear submarine around the turn of this century. It was the time for hange in leadership from a traditional model of leader-follower to a leader-leader model. The book is not only informative, it is a very readable book.
November 2021 Book Club Selection- Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robet I. Sutton, HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF TRUTHS & TOTAL NONSENSE, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. This book is an excellent follow-up to “The Knowing-Doing Gap.” There are many leadership and management practices in the literature that often cannot be proved. The authors examine evidence-based practice to show what the facts really are.
Mid-October 2021 Book Club Selection- Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, BLIND SPOTS, Princeton University Press, 2011. This book is about ethics. There is clearly differences between ethics in theory and ethics in practice. This book tries to answer the why question. There is a concern as to why ethics gets removed from the decision- making process.
October 2021 Book Club Selections-James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, LEARNING LEADERSHIP, Wiley, 2016. This is an excellent follow-up to the authors’ classic book THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE. That book was often the major text for several of the public health leadership institutes. The current book adds the new component of the five fundamentals of becoming an exemplary leader. The two books create an excellent resource for the training of our young leaders.
Mid-September 2021 Book Club Selection -Jon Gordon and Kate Leavell, STICK TOGETHER, Wiley 2021. Each member of a team is given a stick with a word on it The purpose is to learn how to worktogether rather than alone. One stick is easier to break than a bundle of sticks tied together. Teamwork is the secret in the power of belief, ownership, connection, love, inclusion, consistency and hope. The book fable is excellent.
September 2021 Book Club Selection-Daniel Harkevy, THE 7 PERSPECTIVES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERS, Baker Books, 2020. The big concerns for leadership today relates to the decisions we make and the influence we have with others. The book explores the seven perspectives related to our influence and our decision-making. The book is a good read and should put some of your work habits into perspective.
Mid-August 2021 Book Club Selection-James Strock, SERVE TO LEAD 2.0, author, 2018. Leading in this new century requires new skills. Servant leadership is the requirement for the 21st century. Leaders will find this to be a very useful book.
August 2021 Book Club Selection- Jim Clifton and Jim Hart, IT’S THE MANAGER, Gallup Press, 2019. Gallup has been researching management and leadership for many years. This book reviews the research in a number of short chapters. The book also includes lengthy appendixes on other critical activities of the Gallup organizations. This is a excellent book for you to read and keep on your leadership bookshelf. I strongly recommend it .
Mid-July 2021 Book Club Selection-Jon and Kathryn Gordon, RELATIONSHIP GRIT, Wiley, 2020. There is more to life than work. Using a dialogue approach, the Gordons explore marriage. The balance of home and work is not realistic. There are times when home and family must be primary. Jon has discussed the importance of religion in your life. This is an important book for my leadership readers.
July 2021 Book Club Selection-Barack Obama, A PROMISED LAND, Crown, 2020. This is a splendid memoir of the first term of President Obama. It is clearly an example of leadership in action with a detailed story of all aspects of the first Obama years. It is a book that will take you a long time to read. However, it is well written that will demonstrate the intricacies of a presidency with all the conflicts that a president has with Congress. This book will show you how difficult it is to lead. I strongly recommend. the book.
Mid-June 2021 Book Club Selection- Kevin N. Lawrence, YOUR OXYGEN MASK FIRST, Lioncrest, 2017. Leaders will find this book to be extremely useful. Leaders must learn how to take care of themselves. This book presents you with the seventeen habits leaders need to survive and thrive in their leadership life. The book is quite readable and definitely worth your time.
June 2021 Book Cub Selection-Leonard J. Marcus, Eric J. McNulty, Joseph M. Henderson, and Barry C. Dorn, YOU’RE IT, Public Affairs Press, 2019. Many of us in the leadership development field have been waiting for this book for a number of years. It is the book on Meta-Leadership and its important three components. It is about you as leader, the situation in which you work, and the connectivity in which you serve your stakeholders. The meta-leader works up and down and across the silos of the organization. He or she also works not only inside the organization but outside the organization. This book is one of the most useful leadership books of the last several years.
Mid-May 2021 Book Club Selection-Richard Axelrod, Emily M. Axelrod, Julie Beedon, and Robert W. Jacobs, YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE ,Berrett-Koehler, 2004. You may have noticed that I tend to select a number of books by a given author. This is one of those books. The book looks at way to get people involved in the work activities of various organizations. It is important to keep people involved in the work. It is important to use meetings effectively. I think you will find this short book worth reading and then utilizing the tools and techniques presented.
May 2021 Book Club Selection- Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, THE KNOWING-DOING GAP, Harvard Business Review Press, 2000. This book addresses the important concerns od developing the knowledge involved in being a leader in a specific organization. The book is concerned with the whys of turning and not turning knowledge into action. This book explores the knowledge-doing gap from many angles. I strongly recommend this book for leaders to read.
Mid-April 2021 Book Club Selection-Laurence Barton, CRISIS LEADERSHIP NOW, McGraw Hill, 2008. Dealing with crises from an academic perspective is not satisfactory {I disagree). Learning how to deal with a crisis demands an action perspective. The author presents many crises and demonstrates how leaders learn primarily from the crisis situation itself. Barton shows how he has learned how to deal with a crisis and how to learn how to teach others how to address crises from the action learning experiences of others.
April 2021 Book Club Selection-David McCullough, JOHN ADAMS, Simon& Schuster, 2001. This is an excellent biography of our second President. The author provides much information on the leadership evidence about Adams. The relationship between Adams and Washington as well as Jefferson is explored in detail. The book also explores the life of Abigail Adams and her influence on her husband. She also had many opinions on the political issues of the times and showed how she influenced John on his leadership journey.
Mid-March 2021 Book Club Selection-Frances Dunn Butterfoss, IGNITE, Author House, 2013. This is an important book for those involved in collaborations at the community level. There are 28 tools at various stages of the development of coalitions and partnerships. If you want more, consult Butterfoss’ textbook with more detailed tools – COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH.
March 2021 Book Club Selection-Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, LOVE ‘ EM OR LOSE ‘EM, Berrett-Koehler, 2014(Fifth Edition). I would keep this book on my desk or in a bookcase that is nearby. This book(manual) gives you twenty-six chapters on how to keep your best employees.
Mid-February 2021 Book Club Selection- Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, HUMBLE LEADERSHIP, Berrett-Koehler,2018 Transactional leadership involves a relationship which is based on the leadership roles that the participants have. Humble leadership is different. It involves the relationship that involves one person with another. It is more democratic that in the transactional relationship. The authors use te term “personized ” in humble leadership. The authors use many case studies to demonstrate the different kinds of relationships.
February 2021 Book Club Selection- Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker, DEADLIEST ENEMY, Little Brown, 2020 (updated), This book represents an important approach to disaster research. It looks at the important concern of the spread of infectious diseases around the world. using an epidemiologic methodology. Osterholm is a well-known public health epidemiologist from the University of Minnesota. He has been appointed to President Biden’s coronovirus committee. This is an important book for today’s leaders.
Mid-January 2021 Book Club Selection-Bob Woodward, RAGE, Simon and Scchuster, 2020.There are many ways to read a book. from a historical perspective, we read Rage from a view of President Trump’s fourth year in office. Woodward presents a journalist perspective to document the facts of the fourth year. As an individual trying to understand the leadership approaches taken by the President, I read the book differently.. The book provides an interesting initial evaluation of the leadership of our forty-fifth President.
January 2021 Book Club Selection- Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, A PASSION FOR BOOKS, Times Books, 1999. Many leaders find that they learn much from books. These leaders feel that their leadership is enhance by their reading and commitment to lifelong learning. This book presents many short pieces coverings the love of reading over the past few centuries.
C
Rowitz On Leadership 