Book List For Leaders to Read



Book List For Leaders

THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE by Rick Warren

THE FIVE TEMPTATIONS OF A CEO by Patrick Lencioni

THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM by Patrick Lencioni

THE FOUR OBSESSIONS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ADMINISTRATOR by Patrick Lencioni

THE THREE SIGNS OF A MISERABLE JOB by Patrick Lencioni

 >GETTING THINGS DONE by David Allen

 

WOODEN, A LIFETIME OF OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON AND OFF THE COURT

COACH WOODEN ONE ON ONE by John Wooden and Jay Carty

WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP*****

THE ESSENTIAL WOODEN*****

YOU HAVEN’T TAUGHT UNTIL THEY HAVE LEARNED…John Wooden’s Teaching Principles & Practices by Swen Nater & Ronald Gallimore*****

INCH AND MILES by Coach Wooden for young children…..Pyramid of Success

>TRAINING SOCCER CHAMPIONS by Anson Dorrance

>THE MAN WATCHING by Tim Crothers (Four years with Anson Dorrance)

>QUIET STRENGTH by Tony Dungy

THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu……Edited by Samuel Griffith (Bob Knight Favorite)

>EXECUTION by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

THE LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF BILLY GRAHAM by Myra and Shelley

 

LETTERS BY A MODERN MYSTIC by Frank C. Laubach

STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT, Devotions for Each Morning of the Year by Joyce Meyer

PRAYER, A HOLY OCCUPATION by Oswald Chambers

THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD by brother Lawrence

MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST JOURNAL by Oswald Chambers*****

GOD CALLING JOURNAL edited by A. J. Russell……..Geared to women readers

THE SHACK by William P. Young……..This book will get to your inner being!

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THE JOURNEY by Billy Graham

>WHEN THE GAME IS OVER IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX by John Ortberg

>THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch…...He says it all in his last lecture

GRACE FOR THE MOMENT DAILY BIBLE by Max Lucado (Great study Bible)

>GOOD TO GREAT by Jim Collins

 BLEACHERS by John Grisham

MAKE THE BIG TIME WHERE YOU ARE by Frosty Westering (253/531-3672)

FIRST THINGS FIRST by Covey, Merrill, and Merrill

WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU AT THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL by Mark McCormack 

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom

>THE JESUS STYLE by Gayle Dean Erwin (Great on Team Work and Servant Leadership) 

THE ART OF LIVING by Wilferd Peterson

 LEADERSHIP PRAYERS by Richard Kriegbaum

THE ONLY NECESSARY THING....Living A Prayerful Life by Henri Nouwen, Edited by Wendy Wilson Greer The Crossroad Publishing Company

 

 1001 MOTIVATION MESSAGES AND QUOTES FOR ATHLETES AND COACHES

     By Bruce Brown, Coaches Choice, P. O. Box 1828, Monterey, CA    93942

>THE SERVANT....A Simple Story About The True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter

 (A Coach John Wooden favorite)

THE ART OF LIVING…The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus

*****All of these books can offer something to the leader who wants to improve and develop his/her ability to bring out the best in people and teams.  The one book not on the list that has stood the ultimate test of time is the BIBLE.

 

Don Meyer-Basketball Office, Northern State University, 1200 South Jay Street, Aberdeen, SD  57401 e-mail address……….meyerd@northern.edu 

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