The Fulcrum Group provides you with some of our favorite books, and
the ones we often reference.
For Clients: If we mentioned that you should pick up a
particular book, it's most likely in this list. If you're not sure
which one we were referring to, just let us know and we'll be happy
to help.
Working With Emotional Intelligence takes
the concepts from Daniel Goleman's bestseller, Emotional
Intelligence, into the workplace. Business leaders and
outstanding performers are not defined by their IQs or even
their job skills, but by their "emotional intelligence": a set
of competencies that distinguishes how people manage feelings,
interact, and communicate. Analyses done by dozens of experts
in 500 corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit
organizations worldwide conclude that emotional intelligence is
the barometer of excellence on virtually any job. This book
explains what emotional intelligence is and why it counts more
than IQ or expertise for excelling on the job.
The Power of Now
Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in
the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And
while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh,
Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make
this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what
exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a
world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in
concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of
reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a
different container--more conscious of how thoughts and
emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine
peace and happiness.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A
Leadership Fable
In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni
(The Five Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the fable of
a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took
control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its
members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers
explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral
tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear
of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability
and inattention to results). Succinct yet sympathetic, this
guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent
difficulties of leading a group.
Business Leadership
Business Leadership contains the best
thinking from the biggest names in leadership on a wide range
of subjects including ethics, dealing with change, vision
setting, the heroic journey, the practices of leadership, and
the work of leadership. With an introduction by James M. Kouzes—
coauthor of the million-copy best-seller The Leadership
Challenge— the author list of this invaluable resource reads
like the who's who of business leadership. This extraordinary
collection features chapters from Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.,
Warren Bennis, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lee G. Bolman, Larry
Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Susan Mitchell Bridges, William
Bridges, Marcus Buckingham, Ram Charan, Joanne B. Ciulla,
Donald O. Clifton, James C. Collins, Terrence E. Deal, Max De
Pree, Stephen Drotter, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman, and
numerous others.
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational
Culture : Based on the Competing Values Framework
This book provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of
systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and
their organizations adopt the demands of the environment. It
focuses less on the right answers that it does on the methods
and mechanisms available to help managers change the most
fundamental elements of their organizations. It provides a way
for managers, at almost any level in an organization, to guide
the change process at the most basic level-the cultural level.
It provides a systematic strategy for internal or external
change agents to facilitate foundational change that can then
support and supplement other kinds of change initiatives."
Good To Great: Why Some Companies
Make the Leap... And Others Don't.
Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good
company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to
Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it
is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and
his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a
list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made
substantial improvements in their performance over time.
At the
heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate
culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people
to think and act in a disciplined manner.
Finding Your Own North Star
A fixed point in the sky that helps
mariners stay on course, the North Star emerges as a symbol for
realizing one's true potential in this cheerful and perceptive
but too-long book. Beck teaches that each individual has a core
personality that encompasses one's desires, emotions and
preferences, which is sometimes blocked by a social self that
responds to external influences and cultivates survival skills.
By far the most fascinating material is on how to read warnings
from the essential self: low energy, lapses into illness,
forgetfulness, addictions, Freudian slips and mood swings.
Masterful Coaching - Participants
Workbook
Based on Robert Hargrove's acclaimed
five-step coaching model--field-tested by thousands of leaders
world-wide--these tools will help you be your guide to a
comprehensive training program for your organization that will
fundamentally shift thinking and attitudes in the service of
extraordinary results. The modular program is adaptable to the
needs of any organization and its flexible workshop design is
run and administered by a facilitator/consultant from The
Fulcrum Group. Contact us to find out more about this new
exciting program.
Primal Leadership - Learning to Lead
with Emotional Intelligence.
Business
leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the
work environment do so at their organization's peril. Since the actions
of the leader apparently account for up to 70 percent of
employees' perception of the climate of their organization, Goleman and his team emphasize the importance of developing
what they term "resonant leadership." Focusing on the four
domains of emotional intelligence--self-awareness,
self-management, social awareness, and relationship
management--they explore what contributes to and detracts from
resonant leadership, and how the development of these four EI
competencies spawns different leadership styles.
