January 2024 Book Club Selection- Jack Welch, JACK; STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT, Grand Central, 2001.This is the excellent biography of Jack Welch who served as CEO of General Electric. He writes in detail about his leadership experiences over several decades. at GE He also talks about his personal life in relationship to his work life. You will. experience his actions as an excellent business leader.
Mid-January 2024 Book Club Selection- John C. Maxwell, THE THINKER’S EDGE, Central Street, 2022. The book addresses 11 practices for getting ahead in business and life. Maxwell has spent much of his professional life collecting quotations about leadership. As a teacher on leadership, he uses these quotations to give examples to others to show leadership in action.. This book of quotations takes each of the eleven practices and show how other writers on leadership explain each practice.
February 2024 Book Club Selection-Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK, Penguin, 2014. Feedback has many complex ramifications. This book discusses all the complications This book helps to explain why receiving why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging and offers so powerful a framework to help us take on life’s many offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited criticism with curiosity and grace.
Mid-February 2024 Book Club Selection-Bob Kaplan and Harold Rabinowitz, SPEAKING OF BOOKS, Crown Publishers, 2001. Successful leaders tend to be readers. They love books. They also tend to be collector’s of quotations that they can use in talks as well as in their own books. This is a book of quotations about books and reading. This book will serve as a wonderful research resource for leaders.
March 2024 Book Club Selection- Jon Meacham, AMERICAN LION, Random House, 2008. Our seventh president, Andrew Jackson was one of our most effective leaders. He believed that presidents need to be leaders and not servants oF Congress. He spent his early years fighting Native Americans and also Mexicans. He wanted to make Texas a state. He did away with our first national bank. He liberally used the veto to make his will known. Jackson believed the people are the guiding force in American politics. Jackson created the modern American presidency as we know it today.
Mid-March 2024 Book Club Selection-John C. Maxwell, BE A PEOPLE PERSON, Nexgen, 2004. In his early days as a pastor, Maxwell began to study the importance of the study of leadership in his pastoral work. Leadership is the ability to inspire others to work together as a team. Maxwell uses many biblical quotations to demonstrate the importance of teamwork in leadership.
April 2024 Book Club Selection- James C. Collins and Jerry Porras, BUILT TO LAST, Harper Business, 1994. This is one of six books on the successful habits of visionary companies. Visionary companies are premier institutions in their industries which are by their peers and are companies which have a long track record of making a significant impact on the world around them. The book explores what makes visionary companies different from other companies.
Mid-April 2024 Book Club Selection-John C. Maxwell, THE 17 INDISPUTABLE LAWS OF TEAMWORK, Harper Collins, 2001. For leadership to be successful today, it should occur in teams. This book reviews the vital principles of team building that is necessary for success in business. family. church and organizations. This is an important book for leaders to keep on their desks as a guide to working with groups
May 2024 Book Club Selection-John C. Maxwell, LEADING IN TOUGH TIMES, Center Street, 2021. Leaders often have to function in times of crisis. This means that leaders have to deal with change on a regular basis.
Mid-May 2024 Book Club Selection-Jim Collins, GOOD TO GREAT, Harper Business, 2001. This is the second book in a series of books on organizational studies. This book looks at a number of companies that makes the jump from being a good company to becoming a great company in a fifteen year period. Collins explores the question of why some companies make the leap to great and some don’t.
June 2024 Book Club Selection-John C. Maxwell. THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DEVELOPING LEADERS. harper-Collins Leadership. 2023. The key to accomplishing today’s goals and achieving tomorrow;s organizational success depends on the present and future leaders, This book outlines Maxwell’s approach to leadership development, You will learn how to become the developers of people, identify people with leadership potential. recruit,. train and motivate emerging leaders, empower new leaders to lead, coach new and existing leaders to higher levels of achievement, and teach leaders how to develop other leaders.
July 2024 Book Club Selection-Donald B. Cole MARTIN VAN BUREN AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM Eastern National, 1984. This book continues my review of the leadership practices of our Americn presidents. Van Buren had many legal successes in his work with President Andrew Jackson. He tended to have many more problems in his presidential years, One of his major work related to the support of a system of political parties.
Mid-July 2024 Book Club Selection- John C. Maxwell, THE SELF-AWARE LEADER, Harper-Collins Leadership, 2021. The biggest obstacle that leaders face is their development, effectiveness, and advancement is the lack of self-awareness A leader’s own lack of self-awareness sabotages more leadership efforts than anything else. To unleash the strength of your team, you must first focus on building your own strength.
August 2024 Book Club Selection-George Binney, Colin Williams, and Gerhard Wilke, LIVING LEADERSHIP(THIRD EDITION, Pearson, 2012. The book reports on the findings of a number of investigators who spent time alongside the leaders in a number of British businesses. The investigators firt noted the importance of context in all leadership activities. It is important that we see leaders in the middle of organizations where they relate to the top bosses and also to the workers beneath them. Living leadership is about the actions that take place in the everyday activities of an organization.
Mid-August 2024 Book Club Selection-Steven Wallace, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, ———, 2021. This short book contains a brief discussion of the life of the ninth President of the United States. He had a strong military career. He is also the first President to die in office before he served long as President.
September 2024 Book Club Selection-Nicholas A. Christakis, APOLLO’S ARROW, Little, Brown, and Spark, 2020. This is a very important book for today’s leaders. It details an account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it sweeps through American society beginning in 2020. The author compares Covid to other plages in the past. The book answers many questions that have been raised about the covid pandemic.
Mid-September 2024 Book Club Selection-Michael Rowell, LEADERSHIP UPGRADE, Empowered Nation Publishing, 2021. The book will help the reader develop the key traits of a dynamic leader. The ten traits include integrity, conviction of purpose, vision, prioritising relationships, persistence, leading for legacy, selfless service, pioneering spirit, breakthrough thinking and self-governance.
October 2024 Book Club Selection-Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy, LIVING FORWARD, Baker Books, 2016. Leaders with a life plan stop drifting and get the life they want. This book provids a manual for the develoment of a life plan.
Mid-October Book Club Selection- Jim Collins, GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS, ———, 2005.Not all leadership is the same. Leaders in the business sector and leaders in the social sector are different..
November 2024 Book Club Selection- Stephen M. R. Covey and Greg Link, SMART TRUST, Simon and Schuster, 2012. Trust is a principle of power. Trust is important for more effective teamwork. The purpose of this second book on trust is to help you develop the judgment to recognize and extend smart trust deliberatively in order to enjoy greater prosperity, energy and joy in all dimensions of life. The five actions of smart trust involve choosing to believe in trust, start with self, declare your intent and assume positive intent in others, do what you say you are going to do, and lead out in extending trust to others.
Mid-November 2024 Book Club Selection- Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins, SELF LEADERSHIP AND THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER , Harper-Collins, 2005. This book completes the one minute manager trilogy. Self-leaders challenge assumed constraints, activate their points of power, and are proactive about getting what they need to succeed.
December 2024 Book Club Selection-Bill George, 7 LESSONS FOR LEADING IN CRISIS, Jossey-Bass, 2009. There has been an increasing interest in how leaders need to learn how to function in times of crisis. Bill George of True North fame explores his 7 lessons for leading in crisis during times of bankruptcy, technology and globalization changes, product recalls, business ethics, and hostile takeovers.
Mid-December 2024 Book Selection-John C. Maxwell, HOW TO LEAD WHEN YOUR BOSS CAN”T OR WON”T. The author unveils the keys to successfully navigating the challenges of working for an ineffective boss. A bad boss will impact on your evaluation.
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