Resources

Highly Recommended (and Fast!) Reads

  • Four rules to live by: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
  • How to get out of your own way: Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself by Richard D. Carson.
  • How to be in healthy relationship with others: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute.
  • How to strengthen team work: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
  • How to make change: Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter.
  • How to deal with change: Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson.
  • How to boost morale and improve results: Fish! By Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen.

Other Great Leadership Books

  • Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills by David W. Johnson and Frank P. Johnson.
  • The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.
  • How Are We Doing: A 1-Hour Guide to Evaluating your Performance as a Nonprofit Board by Gayle Gifford.
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Organizational Development Books

  • Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills by David W. Johnson and Frank P. Johnson.
  • The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.
  • How Are We Doing: A 1-Hour Guide to Evaluating your Performance as a Nonprofit Board by Gayle Gifford.
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Books on Meeting Facilitation

  • Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Lind, Toldi, Fisk and Berger.
  • The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwartz.
  • The Zen of Groups by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey, and Bill Taylor.
  • The Art of Facilitation by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey, and Bill Taylor.
  • Working with Groups to Enhance Relationships by Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Ph.D. and Sue Walden.