Who doesn’t like a good book? Here you’ll find a number of member-recommended books on everything from leadership and conflict resolution to communicating effectively.
Leadership
Following is a list of member-recommended books and authors’ last name:
Leading Quietly – Badaracco
Good to Great – Collins
Built to Last – Collins and Porras
Emotional Intelligence – Goleman
Outliers – Gladwell
Execution – Bossidy and Charan
Leadership on the Line – Heifetz and Linsky
Leadership Without Easy Answers – Heifetz
Practice of Adaptive Leadership – Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky
Leading Change – Kotter
The Advantage– Lencioni
The Leader as Communicator – Mai and Akerson
7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Covey
The Fifth Discipline – Senge
Managing the Unexpected – Weick and Sutcliffe
Start With Why – Sinek
Conflict Management
Conservation’s blind spot: The case for conflict transformation in wildlife conservation by Francine Madden, Brian McQuinn
Green in Gridlock by Paul Walden Hansen
Human Dimensions of Wildlife Journal
The 3rd Alternative by James M.R. Covey
The Magic of Conflict by Thomas F. Crum
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ron Heifetz, et al
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Communications
“Communicating Science in Politicized Environments” by Arthur Lupia In PNAS Early Edition, Aug. 20, 2013
Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
Escape from the Ivory tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter by Nancy Baron
Expand Your View: Insights for Public Communicators from Behavioral Research by Joe Cone, Oregon Sea Grant
“Fixing the Communications Failure” by Dan Kahan in Nature, January 2010
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, et al.
Hold That Thought: Questioning Five Common Assumptions about Communicating with the Public by Joe Cone, Oregon Sea Grant
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity by Arnold Mindell
Say It Right the First Time by Dr. Loretta Malandro
The Strategic Marketing Process: How To Structure Your Marketing Activities to Achieve Better Results by Moderandi, Inc.
Strategic Planning
Leading Change by John P. Kotter
We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths That Keep Government from Radically Improving by Ken Miller
The Strategy Book by Max McKeown
Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook – Species Survival Commission
The Empowered Manager and The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block
Thriving on Chaos by Tom Peters
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge