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Worthwhile reading

Several years ago, someone told me that who I would become in ten years would be determined by the books I read and the people I spent time with ... so, I started reading like crazy!

If you are interested in learning more about coaching, human motivation, real success, and truly
effective leadership, here is a list of books I've read and highly recommend - each, of course, will be of personal value to you dependent on your area of interest and level of prior knowledge.

 


Business Success

Re-Imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
The Pursuit of WOW
- Tom Peters

Profitable Growth is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning
- Ram Charan

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
- Peter Block

Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Learning As A Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water
- Peter Vaille

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
- Patrick Lencioni

Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders
- Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, Ken Shelton

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
- Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Malcolm Gladwell

Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work As a Pilgrimage of Identity
- David Whyte

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck - and Your Life.
- Richard Wiseman

The Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit and Success in the 21th Century
-Ann Coombs

Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap
-Jim Collins

Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
-Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Office of Yahoo!

Ready For Anything: 52 Productivity Principals for Work & Life
- David Allen

Principal-Centred Leadership
First Things First
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

- Stephen R. Covey

Play Like a Man. Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success That Women Need To Learn
- Gail Evans

Toxic Success: How to Stop Striving and Start Thriving
- Paul Pearsall, Ph.D

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
-Michael E. Gerber

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: The Demise of 20Th Century Selling and the Advent of Helping Clients Succeed
-Mahan Khalsa

Winning the Tax Game 2003: A Year-Round Tax and Investment Guide for Canadians
- Tim Cestnick

NLP At Work: The Difference that Makes a Difference in Business
-Sue Knight

Born to Succeed: Releasing Your Business Potential
-Colin Turner

The Power of Focus - How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty
-Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt

Smart Women - Canadian Entrepreneurs Talk About: Making Money, Leadership, Management, Self-Development
- Barbara L. Thrasher and Madelon Smid

Pour Your Heart Into It - How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup At A Time
-Howard Schultz

Toxic Emotions At Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
- Peter J. Frost
 
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Tim
- Susan Scott
 
Trump-The Art Of The Deal
-Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz
 
Pushing the Envelope - All The Way To The Top
-Harvey Mackay

Secrets of Closing the Sale
- Zig Ziglar

How To Sell Yourself
- Joe Girard

Intimate Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
- Fritjof Capra

The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving
- O'Connor and McDermott

Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
- Gilbert


Leadership Success

Leadership Challenge: The Most Trusted Source on Becoming a Better Leader
- Kouzes and Posner
 
The Leader's Voice: How Communication Can Inspire Action and Get Results
- Clarke and Crossland

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
-Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

The Leadership Pipeline: How To Build The Leadership-Powered Company
- Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel

Inspire! What Great Leaders Do
- Dr. Lance Secretan

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
- Patrick Lencioni

Principal-Centred Leadership
- Stephan R. Covey

Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders
- Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, Ken Shelton

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time
- Susan Scott

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- John C. Maxwell

How to become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees
- Jeffrey J. Fox

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
- Oren Harari

Awakening The Leader Within: A Story of Transformation
- Kevin Cashman

Leadership and The New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
- Meg Wheatley

How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Dale Carnegie

Toxic Emotions At Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
- Peter Frost 

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Churchill on Leadership - Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
- Steven. F. Hayward

Leadership from Within
- Peter Urs Bender

Leadership and Self-Deception
- The Arbinger Institute

The Other 90%-How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life
- Robert K. Cooper

Jack-Straight From The Gut
- Jack Welch with John A. Byrne


Marketing and Presentation Success

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
-Seth Godin

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
- Peter Block

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
- Paul Arden

Brand Harmony: Achieving Dynamic Results By Orchestrating Your Customers' Total Experience
- Steve Yastrow

Put Your Best Foot Forward: make a great impression by taking control of how others see you
-Jo-Ellen Dimitrius, Ph.D. and Mark Mazzarella

You're Speaking but are you Connecting? Win the Support and Attention of Every Audience You Address
-Margaret F. Hope, M.ED.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Malcolm Gladwell

Power Talk: Using Language to Build Authority and Influence
-Sarah Myers McGinty, Ph.D.


Coaching Specific

Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach
-Laura Berman Fortgang

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People towards Success in Work and Life
-Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandahl

Masterful Coaching Fieldbook: Grow Your Business, Multiply Your Profits, Win the Talent War!
- Robert Hargove

Coaching with Spirit: Allowing Success to Emerge
- Teri-E Belf

A Way of Being
- Carl Rogers

Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
- Gilbert

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
- Peter Block

How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want
-Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Deepak Chopra

Leverage Your Best, Ditch The Rest: The Coaching Secrets Top Executives Depend On
-Scott Blanchard and Madeleline Homan

Living an Extraordinary Life: Breakthrough Ideas from the World's Premier Personal and Business Coaches
-Lahaska

Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment
- Naomi L. Quenk

NLP At Work: The Difference that Makes a Difference in Business
-Sue Knight

I'm ok, You're ok: A Practical Guide to Transactional Analysis
-Thomas A. Harris, M.D.

Coming Home Again: A Family-Of-Origin Consultation
- Framo, Weber, Levine

I Need You to Love Me. Is That True?
- Byron Katie

Get the Edge
Unlimited Power
Awaken the Giant Within
Live with Passion!

-Anthony Robbins


Psychology of Peak Performance

Success is a Choice - How to overachieve in business and in life
-Rick Pitino

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Dynamic Techniques for turning fear, indecision, and anger into power, action and love
-Susan Jeffers, Ph.D

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck - and Your Life.
- Richard Wiseman

Turning the Mind Into An Ally
- Sakong Mipham

The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD and Sharon Begley

Emotional Intelligence-Why it can matter more than IQ
-Daniel Goleman

How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want
-Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Deepak Chopra

Adversity Quotient - Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
-Paul G. Stoltz, PhD

Get the Edge
Unlimited Power
Awaken the Giant Within
Live with Passion!

-Anthony Robbins

If Life is a Game, These are the Rules - Ten Rules for Being Human
-Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD

The Psychology of Winning: Ten Qualities of a Total Winner
The Silva Mind Control Method
-Dr. Denis Waitley

First Things First
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

-Stephen R. Covey

The Magic of Thinking Big
-David J. Schwartz

You can if you believe you can
How to fly with the Eagles
It begins with a Dream

-Peter Legge

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
-Mihaly Cskiszentmihalyi

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
-Shakti Gawwain


For the Stressed Out

Toxic Success: How to Stop Striving and Start Thriving
- Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.

Turning the Mind Into An Ally
- Sakong Mipham

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: simple ways to keep the little things from taking over your life
-Richard Carlson, Ph.D.

Ready For Anything: 52 Productivity Principals for Work & Life
- David Allen

Elegant Choices, Healing Choices - Finding Grace and Wholeness in Everything We Choose
-Marsha Sinetar

The Simple Living Guide - A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
-Janet Luhrs


Understanding Self

Relationship Rescue
Self Matters: Creating Your Life From the Inside Out

Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
-Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.

Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
-Michael J. Gelb

Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths - and those of the people you manage
-Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

Born To Succeed
-Colin Turner

Emotional Alchemy: How The Mind Can Heal The Heart
- Tara Bennett-Goleman

Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
- Gilbert

A Change for the Better: Poetry and the Reimagination of Midlife
- David Whyte

Turning the Mind Into An Ally
- Sakong Mipham

Leadership From Within
- Peter Urs Bender

I Need You to Love Me. Is That True?
- Byron Katie

I'm ok, You're ok: A Practical Guide to Transactional Analysis
-Thomas A. Harris, M.D.

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job
-Dale Carnegie

Making a Life, Making a Living
-Mark Albion

Get the Edge
Unlimited Power
Awaken the Giant Within
Live with Passion!

-Anthony Robbins

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
-Mihaly Cskiszentmihalyi

The Bitch In The House: Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage


Biographies

Lucky Man: A Memoir
-Michael J. Fox

Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life
- Christopher Reeve

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup At A Time
-Howard Schultz

Jack-Straight From The Gut
-Jack Welch with John A. Byrne

Geri Halliway: If Only
- Geri Halliway


The Psychology of Wealth

How to Get Filthy, Stinking Rich-An Entrepreneur's Guide to Wealth and Happiness
-Herb Kay

The Millionairess Across the Street-Women: Lessons to Change Your Thinking and Achieve Wealth and Success
-Bettina Flores and Jennifer Basye Sander

The Millionaire Mind
-Thomas J. Stanley, PhD

Rich Dad, Poor Dad - What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not!
-Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter C.P.A.

6 Steps to $1 Million
-Gordon Pape

Retiring Wealthy
-Gordon Pape

The Wealthy Barber - Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning
-David Chilton

The Courage to be Rich - Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance
The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life
- Suze Orman

Think and Grow Rich
-Napoleon Hill

Prosperity Consciousness: How to Tap Your Unlimited Wealth
-Fedric Lehram

The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth
-Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen

For Youth

Don't sweat the small stuff for teens
-Richard Carlson

Be the Difference-A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
-Danny Seo

You can if you believe you can
How to fly with the Eagles
It begins with a Dream

-Peter Legge

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck - and Your Life.
- Richard Wiseman

The Aladdin Factor
-Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

Success is a Choice - How to overachieve in business and in life
-Rick Pitino

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Dynamic Techniques for turning fear, indecision, andanger into power, action and love
- Susan Jeffers, Ph.D

Emotional Intelligence-Why it can matter more than IQ
-Daniel Goleman

Adversity Quotient - Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
-Paul G. Stoltz, PhD

Get the Edge
Unlimited Power
Awaken the Giant Within
Live with Passion!

-Anthony Robbins

If Life is a Game, These are the Rules - Ten Rules for Being Human
-Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD

The Psychology of Winning: Ten Qualities of a Total Winner
-Dr. Denis Waitley

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
First Things First
-Stephen R. Covey

The Magic of Thinking Big
-David J. Schwartz

Privilege, Power and Difference
- Allan G. Johnson


For Athletes and Health and Fitness

Embracing your potential
-Terry Orlick, PhD

Body-for-Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
-Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso

Dr. Aktin's NEW Diet Revolution
- Robert C. Atkins

The Diet Cure: The 8-Step Program to Rebalance Your Body Chemistry and End Food Cravings,

 Weight Problems, and Mood Swings - Now
- Julia Ross, M.A.

The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuventation
- Nicholas Perricone, MD

Eating Alive - Prevention Thru Good Digestion
-Dr. Jonn Matsen, ND

Mind Over Golf
-Dr. Richard Coop with Bill Fields

Enter the Zone: A Dietary Road Map
- Dr. Barry Sears

Stop the Insanity: Change the way you look and feel forever
- Susan Powter


Spirituality

The Art of Happiness - A Handbook for the Living
-His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, MD

Buddhism Plain and Simple: The practice of being aware, right now, every day
-Steve Hagen

The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work
Laws the Change Lives: How to Align Your Life with Timeless Spiritual Principals                        
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
- Dan Millman
 
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
- Sogyal Rinpoche
 
The Purpose of Your Life
- Carol Adrienne
 
A Change for the Better: Poetry and the Reimagination of Midlife
- David Whyte
 
SynchroDestiny
How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
- Deepak Chopra

Ethics for the New Millennium
The Path to Enlightenment
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages
There's A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem
You'll See It When You Believe It

Real Magic-Creating Miracles in Everyday Life
The Power of Intention

- Wayne W. Dyer

Turning The Mind Into An Alley
- Sakyong Mipham

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Intimate Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
- Fritjof Capra

Mother Teresa: A Simple Path
- Mother Tesesa

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principals of A COURSE IN MIRACLES
The Gift of Change
A Woman's Worth
- Marianne Williamson

The Power of Now - A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Stillness Speaks 
Living a Life of Inner Peace
- Eckart Tolle

Finding Your Sacred Contract
- Caroline Myss

Emotional Alchemy: How The Mind Can Heal The Heart
- Tara Bennett-Goleman

The Invitation
-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Seat of the Soul
-Gary Zukav

The Celestine Prophecy
-James Redfield

I Need You to Love Me. Is That True?
- Byron Katie

Living the Life You Were Meant to Live
-Tom Paterson

God, Creation and Tools for Life
The Other Side and Back: A Psychics Guide our world and beyond
Tools For Life
- Sylvia Browne

Embraced by the Light
-Betty J. Eadie
 
The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari
-  Robin S. Sharma
 
Mutant Message Down Under
-  Marlo Morgan
 
 

Speciality

The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD and Sharon Begley

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Malcolm Gladwell

Privilege, Power and Difference
- Allan G. Johnson

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- Julia Cameron

The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
- Stephen W. Hawking

It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life After 40
- Barbara Sher

The EVERYTHING get Published Book: Everything and Everyone you need to know to become a successfully published author
- Peter Rubie

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published - 2nd Edition
- Sheree Bykofsky and Jennifer Basye Sander

Winning the Tax Game 2003: A Year-Round Tax and Investment Guide for Canadians
- Tim Cestnick

The Bitch In The House: Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage


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