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Executive Integration
 Watkins, Michael, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) This is a
practical guide for managers and executives at all levels in all functional areas who have just moved up the ladder. It addresses how to
undertake new opportunities and understand new vulnerabilities, quickly and smoothly.
Organizational Change and Culture
 Kotter, John P., Leading Change (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
This book is at the top of the list as a very readable, clear, understandable, and useable guide for leaders of change at any level of
an organization. This is one of our highly recommended books.
 Kotter, John P. and James L. Heskett, Corporate Culture and Performance (The Free Press, Macmillan, Inc., 1992) “An
attention-grabbing audit by two Harvard Business School professors of the role that culture (broadly defined as the shared attitudes, behavioral patterns, and
values that cohesive human groups pass on from one generation to the next) can play in the capacity of major corporations to succeed or fail in the
marketplace. The accessible study . . . is based on empirical rather than anecdotal evidence . . . ”
 Senge, Peter M., The Fifth Discipline, The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Currency/Doubleday, 1990, 2006) “In The Fifth Discipline,
Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the
strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people
are continually learning how to create results they truly desire.”
 Senge, Peter, and C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, Presence, Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society (Currency Books, 2004) Presence provokes thought and
increased awareness. It offers tools and ideas for achieving a new mindset in leaders and reaching into our latent potential to “develop
awareness commensurate with our impact, wisdom in balance with our power.” I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore
the deeper human levels of business, government, and educational change. This is one of our highly recommended books.
Leadership
 Cannon, Jeff and Lt. Cmdr. Jon Cannon, Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals (McGraw-Hill, 2003) ISNB: 0-07-140864-9 One of many
things the military does very well is build teams – real teams, where each person must succeed in order to achieve the team’s objective.
While overall responsibility for the success of the mission remains with the highest ranking officer, leadership shifts to “the expert” in each
phase of the mission. Sometimes being a leader means knowing how to take orders.
 Carville, James and Paul Begala, Buck Up, Suck Up . . . And Come Back When You Foul Up (Simon & Schuster, 2002) Forget your personal
politics. This is worth reading. This is one of my favorite leadership books. The 12 winning secrets of the campaign war room are presented
memorably and clearly in no-nonsense (often humorous) language. As the title indicates, the language sometimes verges on the profane. My
strong recommendation is: put your politics to the side as you read this book. It is a gem! This is one of our highly recommended books.
 Marshall, Joseph M. III, The Journey of Crazy Horse (Penguin Group
Inc. 2004) Crazy Horse is presented from the perspective of his time and his culture and, in the presentation, you read how one man lived
timeless principles of leadership. It’s about the group or organization, not about the leader.
Sustainability and Business
 Edwards, Andres R., The Sustainability Revolution: portrait of a paradigm shift (New Society Publishers, 2005) ISBN 0-86571-531-9
This is the first book to read if you want to understand sustainability and the strength of the global grassroots revolution that is at work.
You aren’t hearing about it in the news because there is no leader, no hierarchy, no single power base.
 James, Sarah and Torbjorn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities:
How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices (New Society Publishers, 2004) Using The Natural Step framework, readers
are shown how it is being applied in municipalities. The applications also translate easily to community and neighborhood groups. This is
one of our highly recommended books.
 McDonough, William and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press, 2002) Cradle to Cradle
offers a way of designing products that will provide nourishment for something new when their useable lifecycle is over. This is based on their
own experience in redesigning everything from “carpet to corporate campuses.” The physical book itself is an example of “cradle to cradle.”
 Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomare, The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation (New Society
Publishers, 1999, 2001) The Natural Step for Business explains and demonstrates, through case studies, how the Natural Step framework is
applied in business environments. This is one of our highly recommended books
 Robert, Karl-Henrik, The Natural Step Story (New Society Publishers,
2002) The Natural Step provides a scientifically based organizational model. This book is good background information about how The
Natural Step was formulated and then found its way into businesses and municipalities.
 Willard, Bob, The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case
Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line (New Society Publishers, 2002) The Sustainability Advantage shows, with case studies, financial spreadsheets
and practical applications, that sustainability is both an ethical imperative, it also makes business sense.
 Willard, Bob, The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-In (New Society Publishers, 2005) The Next Sustainability Wave provides
strategies for persuading corporate leaders that sustainability is a compelling business case. The book is arranged for quick reference,
supplying arguments and support materials on facing pages.
Global Warming
We recommend that you read both of these books in order to more fully understand why it is crucial that we address global warming and climate change NOW.
 Flannery, Tim, The Weather Makers (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005)
I recommend this book for an in-depth and readable understanding of global warming, how it creates climate change,
and how climate change “works.” Mr. Flannery doesn’t pull any punches, nor is he gloom and doom. It’s a look at what we have
created since the Industrial Revolution and how it is affecting all living systems.
 Gore, Al, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global
Warming and What We Can Do About It (Rodale, 2006) Forget your personal politics. Global warming and climate change are
non-partisan and equal opportunity players. The book allows you to take time and look at the graphs and pictures presented in the
movie of the same name. This is a book to go through slowly. It is a graphic companion to The Weather Makers.
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