Being
Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989) An excellent description of the principles of being. Well worth studying.
Sanaya Roman, Living With Joy (Tiburon: Kramer, 1986). Available from LuminEssence, PO Box 1310, Medford, Oregon 97501, Telephone (541) 770-6700. Ask for their free newsletter.
Naomi Stephan, Fulfill Your Soul’s Purpose (Walpole: Stillpoint, 1994). How do we seek, identify, and manifest our life purpose? This book shows us.
Collaborating
Geary Rummler & Alan Brache, Improving Performance (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1995). The approach links processes up to corporate strategy and down to the day-to-day jobs.
Peter Scholtes, The Team Handbook (Madison: Joiner Associates, 1989). A truly beautiful book that is a perennial best seller, the Bible of teamwork.
Human Synergistics Canada, Desert Survival Game (Ingersoll, Ontario). Survival Games, Group Styles Inventory from Human Synergistics. Use “The Desert Survival Situation” to demonstrate how collaboration is a learned skill that really works. Human Synergistics Canada can be reached at 246 James St. South, P.O. Box 2380 St. Marys, Ontario, Canada N4X 1A2 Telephone (519) 284-4135.
Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, The Wisdom of Teams (Harvard Business School Press, 1993). Surprisingly, many successful teams never set out to be teams and didn’t even realize they were a team! Learn from this book how to succeed with others.
Michael Schrage, Shared Minds (New York: Random House, 1990) republished as No More Teams! (New York: Currency Doubleday, 1995) Michael’s book has been a great inspiration to us. Read about the new technologies of collaboration.
David Straker, Rapid Problem Solving with Post-it® Notes (Tucson: Fisher Books, 1997). Many more wonderful ways to use Post-it® Notes.
Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (Basic Books, 1984). The biological basis of cooperation and Tit for Tat fully explained.
Future Design
Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View (New York: Currency Doubleday, 1991). A wise book. We designed our first “Gateway To The Future” conference (Toronto, October 1996) using the scenario process described here, and found that it created a profoundly transformative experience for participants.
Marvin Weisbord, Discovering Common Ground (Berrett-Koehler, 1992). Complementary to Schwartz’s work, designs for Future Search Conferences.
Lee Perry, Randall Stott & Norman Smallwood, Real Time Strategy (Wiley, 1993). The section on how to maintain alignment makes the investment worthwhile.
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution (Novato: New World Library, 1998).
Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth, The Cultural Creatives (Three Rivers Press, 2001).
Believing
Dudley Lynch and Paul L. Kordis, Strategy of the Dolphin (Ballantine Books, 1990). A prophetic and widely ranging survey of components of the emerging order.
Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (Little Brown, 1976). A humbling perspective on our place in the cosmos.
Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (Bantam, 1991). Surfing at it’s best, experiencing the wave as it happens, and showing us our place in history.
Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1994). We are presently engaged in the search for new sources of order in the world. Margaret Wheatley integrates her organizational work with the new science.
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life (New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1996). Highly credible, eminently readable. Fritjof Capra is able to take the technicalities of the new science and bring them clearly to the average reader.
Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion (New York: Scribner, 1997). Exciting reading, both of personal experience and new science.
C. G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (See Volume 8 of the Collected Works, Bollingen Series XX, published 1973 by Princeton University Press). Formidable. Not for the faint of heart!
Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe (New York: HarperCollins, 1992). An excellent broad overview of the phenomena of the New Science and Medicine, which combines depth and detail with great clarity.
Robert Dilts, Changing Belief Systems with NLP (Cupertino: Meta Publications, 1990). Untangles the synesthesias of our beliefs into manageable threads.
Manifesting and Creating
R.H. Jarrett, It Works (ISBN: 0-87516-323-8, Published 1992 by DeVorss, PO Box 550, Marina del Rey, CA 90294-0550). The Famous Little Red Book That Makes Your Dreams Come True.
Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization (Mill Valley: Whatever Publishing, 1979). Look for this guide to creating the reality you want.
Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, Creating Money (Tiburon: Kramer, 1988). Nothing to do with money, everything to do with living.
Deanna Sager, Creating the Future I Want (Meaford, Ontario: Rainbow Magic, 1994). This book, and many other exceptional books about NLP and self-help are available from the Georgian Bay NLP Centre, 92 Park Lane Cres., Meaford, ON, Canada N4L 1B1, Telephone (519) 538-1194, FAX (519) 538-1063.
Connecting
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (San Rafael: Amber-Allen Publishing, 1994). Everyone should have this. “The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
Ken Carey, The Third Millennium–Living in the Posthistoric World (Harper, 1995). This book cannot be read while in ordinary consciousness, but somehow transports you into a magical world.
Jack Hawley, Reawakening the Spirit in Work (Fireside 1995). One of the few books dealing with soul or spirit in conjunction with leading and management. Very insightful.
Andrew Ramer, Revelations for a New Millennium (Harper Collins, 1997). Andrew describes how a new chakra of collaboration is opening, as well as giving us wisdom from Eularia, the guardian Angel of the United Nations.
Stephen Levine, Who Dies? (New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1982). 70 million people die every year. This book will change your thinking about how to live and how to die. Deep spiritual insight and simple practical advice.
Larry Dossey, Healing Words (San Francisco:Harper, 1993). Scientifically speaking, prayer has been proven to work. Dossey reviews the evidence and describes a positive path forward.
Management and Leading
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, World Class (Simon & Schuster, 1995). This distinguished author continues to keep us informed.
Charles Handy, The Empty Raincoat (Arrow Books, 1995). Subtitled Making Sense of the Future, Charles Handy does just that.
Peter Vaill, Learning As A Way of Being (Jossey-Bass, 1996). Strategies for survival in a world of permanent white water.
Wilfred Drath and Charles Palus, Making Common Sense–Leadership as Meaning-making in a Community of Practice (Greensboro: Center for Creative Leadership, 1994).
Dick Richards, Artful Work (Berkeley Books, 1997). Awakening joy, meaning and commitment in the workplace.
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline (New York: Doubleday, 1990) and The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (New York: Doubleday, 1994). These books contain great wisdom about the theory and practice of managing organizational change.
General
James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy (New York: Warner Books, 1993). This is a perennial best seller, if you haven’t read it, do so now!
James Redfield and Carol Adrienne, The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide (New York: Warner Books, 1995). The workbook is better than the original, adding much learning to the first book.
Marlo Morgan, Mutant Message Down Under (New York: Harper Collins, 1995). This may be controversial (did Marlo go or did she make it up?) but it is wonderful, original, and very educational.
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