Resources - Recommended Reading from Mike
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Authentic Leadership, Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, Bill George*
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Be My Guest, Conrad Hilton
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Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable, Ian I. Mitroff
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Crisis Management: Master the Skills to Prevent Disasters, Harvard Business Essentials
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Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, Steven Fink
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Confidence, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Customer Service for Dummies, Karen Leland, Keith Bailey
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Cut to the Chase, Stuart R. Levine
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Deming Management at Work, Mary Walton
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bassidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck*
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Fish! Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, John Christensen*
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Full Steam Ahead, Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner*
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Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress Free Productivity, David Allen*
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Good to Great, Jim Collins*
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Guerilla Marketing in 30 Days, Jay Conrad Levinson, Al Lautenslager
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Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management
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Hesselbein on Leadership, Frances Hesselbein*
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High Five: The Magic of Working Together, Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles*
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How to Lead and Still Have a Life, H. Dale Burke*
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It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be, Paul Arden*
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Jack Welch and the 4 E’s of Leadership, Jeffery A.Krames*
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Less is More Leadership, H. Dale Burke*
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Lessons in Loyalty, Lorraine Grubbs-West*
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Little Red Book of Selling, Jeffery Gitomer
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Living the Seven Habits, Stephen R. Covey*
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Managing the Unexpected, Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
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Masters of Success, Proven Techniques for Achieving Success in Business and Life, Ivan R. Misner, Don Morgan
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Meetings: Do’s, Don’ts, and Donuts, Sharon Lippincott
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Monday Morning Leadership, David Cottrell*
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Negotiating for Dummies, Michael C. Donaldso, Mimi Donaldson
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Now Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.*
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Our Iceberg is Melting, John Kotter*
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Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams
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Small Business is Like a Bunch of Bananas, Jim Blasingame
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Small Business Kit for Dummies, Richard Harroch
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Small Grants, Bo Burlington
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Small is the New Big, Seth Godin*
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Starting Your Own Business, Jan Norman*
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Successful Presentations for Dummies, Malcolm Kushner
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey*
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The 10 Rules of Sam Walton, Michael Bergdahl*
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The 25 Sales Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople, Stephen Schiffman
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The 60 Second Organizer. Sixty Solid Techniques for Beating Chaos at Home and at Work, Jeff Davidson
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The 100 Greatest Sales Tips of All Time, Leslie Pockell, Adrienne Avila
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The E Myth Manager, Michael E. Gerber
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The Effective Executive In Action, Peter Drucker*
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni*
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The Heart of a Leader, Ken Blanchard*
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The Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner*
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The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham, Harold Myra, Marshall Shelley
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The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus, Charles C. Manz
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The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson*
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The One Thing You Need to Know About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Successes, Marcus Buckingham*
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The Power of Nice, Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval*
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The Sales Bible, Jeffery Gitomer
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The Servant, James C. Hunter*
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The Small Business Bible, Steven D. Strauss*
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The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Hans Finzel*
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The Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams
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The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principles, James C. Hunter*
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Whale Done- The Power of Positive Relationships, Ken Blanchard*
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith*
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What is Total Quality Control The Japanese Way, Kaoru Ishikawa
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Lee Iacocca
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Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, M.D.*
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Why Smart Executives Fail, And What You Can Learn from their Mistakes, Sydney Finkelstein*
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Winning, Jack Welch*
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Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen
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Zero Resistance Selling, Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
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107 Ways to Stick to It, Lee. J. Colan
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212 The Extra Degree, S.L. Parker
*Indicates a highly-recommended read.