Reading

Magazines/Publications

McKinsey Quarterly
www.mckinsey.com
(The Journal of the McKinsey strategy consulting firm)

Coaching At Work
www.coaching-at-work.com
(UK’s foremost coaching publication)

The Company Director
www.companydirectors.com.au
(Publication of the Australian Institute of Company Directors)

Books/Articles

Mansell, V, 2009, The Focused Executive, Focus, Sydney

Virginia Mansell’s book outlining the five key drivers of leadership effectiveness:  Influencing, Enabling, Synergising, Energising and Trusting. Articles expanding on various aspects of these drivers include:

Influencing:

  • Bragg, M, 1996, Reinventing Influence, Financial Times, London
  • Cialdini, RB, 1984, The Psychology Influence of Persuasion, William Morrow, New York   
  • Conger, JA, 1998, The necessary Art of Persuasion, Harvard Business Review
  • Gibarro, JJ, and Kotter, JP, 1980, Managing Your Boss, Harvard Business Review
  • Williams, GA, and Miller, RB, 2002, Change the Way You Persuade, Harvard Business Review

Enabling:

  • Covey, R, 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Franklin Covey Co.
  • Covey, R, 2004, The Eighth Habit:  From Effectiveness to Greatness, Free Press, New York
  • Ertel, D, 2004, Getting Past Yes – Negotiation as if Implementation Mattered, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
  • Goldsmith, M, 2007, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Hyperion, New York
  • Gratton, L, 2007, Hot Spots, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco

Synergising:

  • Heimbouch, H, 2001, Should This Team Be Saved? Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Katzenbach, J, Smith, DK, 1993, The Wisdom of Teams:  Creating the High-Performance Organisation, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Levy, PF, 2001, The Nut Island Effect – When Good Teams Go Wrong, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts

Energising:

  • Berglas, S, 2004, Chronic time Abuse, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boyatzis, R, McKee, A, and Goleman, D, 2002, Reawakening Your Passion for Work, Harvard Business Review
  • Handy, C, 2002, What’s a Business For?, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
  • Herzberg, F, 1987, One More Time:  How do you motivate employees?, Harvard Business Review

Trusting:

  • Drucker, PF, 2004, Managing Oneself, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
  • Goleman, D, 2000, Leadership That Gets Results, Harvard Business Review
  • Stengel, R, 2008, Mandela:  His 8 Lessons of Leadership, TIME Magazine, Wed. July 9, 2008, Pp 17-22
  • Urch Druskat, V, and Wolff, SB, 2001, Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups, Harvard Business Review

Flaherty, J, 2010, Coaching Evoking Excellence in Others, Butterworth-Heinemann, Burlington, Massachusettes

James Flaherty’s book forms the basis for the practice of Integral Coaching.