I am often asked what book(s) I am currently reading or for recommendations for general business issues, such as leadership development. The following list includes books in the areas of performance management, process improvement, and problem solving. Some are written by friends/authors I have met along the way, whom I respect and am compelled to support by sharing their work with you. Others, I have had the good fortune of finding while creating my own path and have provided great value to my work and life.

• “Catch!” by Cyndi Crother-Laurin
• “Abolishing Performance Appraisals” by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins
• “Bang!” by Linda Kaplan-Thaler and Robin Koval
• “Beyond the Summit” by Todd Skinner
• “E-Myth Revisited” by Michael Gerber
• “Four Days with Deming” by William Latzko and David Saunders
• “Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• “How Great Decisions are Made” by Don Maruska
• “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci” by Michael Gelb
• “Ideas and Opinions” by Albert Einstein
• “Introduction to Quality Engineering” Genichi Taguchi
• “It’s Your Ship” by Michael Abrashoff
• “Leadership and Self-Deception” by The Arbinger Institute
• “Leadership and the New Science” by Margaret Wheatley
• “Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way” by Robin Gerber
• “Lean Thinking” by James Womack and Daniel Jones
• “Legacy Living” by Gloria Burgess
• “No Contest” by Alfie Kohn
• “Openness Works” by Annie Barron
• “Process Redesign” by Arthur Tenner and Irving DeToro
• “Profit Beyond Measure” by Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms
• “Recreating the Corporation” by Russell Ackoff
• “Servant Leadership” by Robert Greenleaf
• “Stewardship” by Peter Block
• “Synchronicity” by Joseph Jaworski
• “The End of Management” by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith
• “The Fifth Discipline” by Peter Senge
• “The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt
• “The Laws of Lifetime Growth” by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura
• “The New Economics” by W. Edwards Deming
• “The Toyota Way” by Jeffrey Liker
• “The Wisdom of Teams” by Jon Katzenback and Douglas Smith
• “Understanding Variation” by Donald Wheeler
• Visual Mapping: A Systematic Framework for Business Improvement by Wallace Tait and Arjen ter Hoeve - Download for free.
• “Zen Golf” by Dr. Joseph Parent

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