How to Be a Great Communicator by Nido R. Qubein

The title says it all. Nido Qubein addresses speaking, writing, body language, organizational communications, team building, and more. This is a must read book for anyone who has any need to communicate.

Speaking Secrets Of The Masters

The Personal Techniques Used By 22 Of The World's Top Professional Speakers

The New Game Plan for Recovery: Rediscovering the Positive Power of Play by Tobin Quereau, Tom Zimmermann

Some of us think the workplace is all about work and that we live to work. This book enlightens and enlivens and reintroduces us to the play that we knew so well before we "grew up."

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction by William C. Byham

As leaders and managers, one of our most important roles is to ensure that the people who work for and with us are able to grow personally and professionally. Empowerment - providing them with the understanding and the authority and the responsibility for their part of the organization's success - is critical.

This book explores the problems of disempowerment and the value of empowerment in a clever and entertaining way.

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

This book is as hard to describe as Taoism itself. But I will say that it is also in my must read list. It is enlightening and challenging. The principles of Taoism and how they apply to each of us are explored by Hoff using the characters of Winnie the Pooh and his friends.

Read this - you won't be sorry!

The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork by John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell has a clear, concise, and vivid manner of expressing himself. In this book, one of many he has authored, Maxwell lays out simple concepts that apply to anyone who leads or participates in teams of any type - work, sports, family, volunteer. There are many wonderful ideas in this book - here are two of my favorites:

"Vision without strategy is little more than a daydream." Wow! I read this and just stopped to savor it.

"...that's the value of intuitive passion. It brings the kind of heat that fires up the committed--and fries the uncommitted." I had to read this several times to really absorb it. Powerful stuff!

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell has a clear, concise, and vivid manner of expressing himself. In this book, one of many he has authored, Maxwell lays out simple concepts that apply to anyone who leads or participates in teams of any type - work, sports, family, volunteer. There are many wonderful ideas in this book - here are two of my favorites:

"Vision without strategy is little more than a daydream." Wow! I read this and just stopped to savor it.

"...that's the value of intuitive passion. It brings the kind of heat that fires up the committed--and fries the uncommitted." I had to read this several times to really absorb it. Powerful stuff!

The Leadership Engine by Noel M. Tichy

Noel Tichy looks at what makes successful organizations - what are the qualities of both the organization and the leader that distinguishes between success and also-ran. This book, published in 1997, takes lessons from some of the greatest, most successful companies in history and distills them down into simple lessons (my favorite kind).

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