Leadership Classics

Living, Leading and the American Dream, John Gardner

— Thomas Beech, President & CEO, The Fetzer Institute

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Managing Oneself (article), Peter Drucker

— Richard Woo, CEO, The Russell Family Foundation
“… a brief but instructive article…“

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Leading Change, John Kotter

The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge

— William Sadler, Professor of MBA Leadership concentration, Holy Names University, author of The Third Age: Six Principles of Growth and Renewal After 40
“… I still use (Senge) and find his contributions on systems thinking
and personal mastery especially helpful… “

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The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas McGregor

Concept of the Corporation, Peter Drucker

— Thomas Doorley, CEO & Chairman, Sage Partners LLC

Biographies & Memoirs of Leaders

Memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill

Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

— John Gaulding, Director and Co-Founder, Sage Partners LLC
“We expect our leaders to have an intuitive sense of the command function and are greatly disappointed when they fall short…”

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Moneyball, Michael Lewis

Sacred Hoops, Pat Riley

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing

Skunk Works, Ben Rich

— Rob Cook, Vice President of Technoloy, Pixar
“… I’ve tried to make them a bit off the beaten path of leadership books…”

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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman, Ed Cray

Leadership, James McGregor Burns

The Wise Men: Six Men and the World They Made, Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson

— Jay Hughes, author, attorney and advisor on wealth and families

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Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership — Nixon to Clinton, David Gergen

— Thomas Doorley, CEO & Chairman, Sage Partners LLC

Organizational Culture & Leadership

The Possibilities of Organization, Barry Oshry

In the Middle, Barry Oshry

Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life, Barry Oshry

Leading Systems: Lessons from the Power Lab, Barry Oshry

—Margaret Downs, Downs & Associates, LLC and leading consultant on strategy

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy, Bruce Greenwald

—Margaret Downs, Downs & Associates, LLC and leading consultant on strategy
“...should eventually become the classic primer on business strategy.”

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Leading Without Power, Max DePree

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Authentic Leadership, Bill George

— Thomas Beech, President & CEO, The Fetzer Institute

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The Hero's Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

—Jay Hughes, author, attorney and advisor on wealth and families
“...still the best book I know on the founder leader's departure...”

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The Tao of Leadership, John Heider

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steve Covey

— Jacqueline Merrill, Founder and President of CenterPoint in Aspen, and strategic philanthropist
“...(Heider's book) says it all in a wonderful, whimsical way... ( and Covey reminds us that there is) ...an important place in every leader's vision for developing both a personal and professional mission statement and exploring the alignment and congruence between the two ..."

Philosophy of Leadership

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Psychology of Leadership—The Inner Stuff

The Heart of Leadership, Sabina Spencer

Servant Leadership, Robert Greenleaf

The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

— Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., psychologist, author, and pioneer in transpersonal psychology

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The Second Half of Life, Angeles Arrien

The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, Jean Paul Lederach

— Thomas Beech, President & CEO, The Fetzer Institute

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Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Joe Jaworski

Leadership Without Easy Answers, Ronald A. Heifetz

— Jay Hughes, author, attorney and advisor on wealth and families

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Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy, Dean Ornish, M.D.

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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life (and other works), Parker Palmer

— Timothy o'Shea, CEO, Clean Fish

Literature & Leadership

Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, William Shakespeare

Republic, Plato

Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Aristotle

History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

Odyssey, Homer

Lives, Plutarch

On Government, On the Good Life, Cicero

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

The Discourses, Epictetus

The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Baltasar Gracian

The Book of the Courtier, Castiglione

Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

Two Treatises of Government, John Locke

Discoverers, Creators, and Seekers of the Spirit (a trilogy), Daniel Boorstin

The Analects, Confucius

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tze

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

— Jay Hughes, author, attorney and advisor on wealth and families
“... those who fail to study history, in this case, the history of leadership as it comes down to us, are condemned to repeat it.“

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The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman

The collected works of William Shakespeare

— Charles Macek, distinguished Australian business leader and thinker
“...the challenge for leadership is to be constructively subversive… “

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Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Master and Man, Leo Tolstoy

Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss

— Robert Fuller, author, Somebodies and Nobodies, and the sequel, All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity

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Aubrey/Maturin series, Patrick O'Brian

— David Padwa
“...leadership illustrations leap off every page… “

Leadership—The Arts & Movement Networks

Dr. Atomic (an opera), John Adams, composer

Larry Brilliant's work in seeking to prevent avian flu pandemic

— Marsha VandeBerg, Executive Director, Pacific Pension Institute
and international affairs writer-editor
“…leadership also happens in quiet ways asintegral to
other professional pursuits...“

Leadership Lessons from Antiquity & Mythology

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Leadership in the Trenches

Outdoor Leadership, John Graham

Stick Your Neck Out, John Graham

— John Graham, President, Giraffe Project, author and speaker on leadership and citizen action

Films on Leadership

Twelve Angry Men, 1957, Sidney Lumet, Director

Twelve O'Clock High, 1949, Henry King, Director

— Thomas Doorley, CEO & Chairman, Sage Partners LLC