Books

TeamBuilders WorldWide has compiled a list of recommended books. Please feel free to browse through our list, or you can jump straight to a category by making a selection from the following choices. If you prefer, or you don’t see the book you are looking for here, you can go straight to any book or other product at Amazon.com using the search box. 

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The Masters of Success
Ken Blanchard, Nick Conner, Jack Canfield, John Christensen
What does it take to be a master of success? How is success defined? Inside this book you will find more than one answer to both of these questions as well as tips and ideas for success.

Nick Conner is TeamBuilders WorldWide’s Vice President of Program Development

Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts, Ph.D.
Victory Secrets is packed with provocative and timely Attilaisms on topics ranging from “Cultivating Allies” to “Practical Dreaming” to “Honor-as-Armor” and “Dodging Arrows.” As enjoyable as it is insightful and instructive, Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun, like its now-classic predecessor, is essential listening for managers and leaders everywhere.

 

Understanding Assessments

Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Mary H. McCaulley

People Types and Tiger Stripes
Gordon Lawrence
If you are a fan of Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs and TYPE, you’ll love this look on personality and behavior. It’s about understanding, recognizing and applying the concepts of TYPE.

Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
David Kiersey, Marilyn Bates
What is Temperament and TYPE. Take a hard look at character and the application of these temperaments. Also, take the free personality Indicator inside.

Beyond the Team
R. Meredith Belbin
Beyond the team shows how, eventually, the mature team can learn to distribute work and manage both team roles and work roles.

 

Team Roles at Work
R. Meredith Belbin
The highly successful follow up. Dr. Meredith Belbin is one of the leaders in team development and team predictability. This book is essential reading for anyone who works in or with teams.

 

Leadership

 

The Leadership Challenge
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
What are the five practices of exemplary leadership? The Leadership Challenge is grounded with extensive research and interviews from leaders in several industries.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
Jim Collins
Good is the enemy of great! From the author of Built to Last, Jim Collins metrics driven case studies provide the common denominator to the teams who have made the leap from good to great.

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
James C. Hunter

 

Principle Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey
In this guidebook to personal fulfillment and professional success, Covey invites you again, this time to center lives and leadership around timeless principles.

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment:
How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction
Jeff Cox, William C. Byham
How difficult is it to understand and apply empowerment. It’s easy if you zap them. Read how easy it is.

The 8th Habit:
From Effectiveness to Greatness
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen Covey, again, takes us from effectiveness to greatness.

Performance Improvement

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni
If you have not read this yet, you need to. Pat Lencioni has done an outstanding job summing up what team building practitioners have been trying to get a cross for years. Excellent reading and perfect in conjunction with an action learning program.

  Inside Teams: How 20 World-Class Organizations Are Winning Through Teamwork
Richard S. Wellins, William C. Byham, George R. Dixon
The inside scope as to how 20 world-class organizations are winning through teamwork.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
Used by thousands of corporations, taught in over 200 colleges and universities and translated into 21 languages. How to increase profits!

 

A Complaint Is a Gift: Using Customer Feedback As a Strategic Tool
Janelle Barlow Ph.D., Claus Moller
Anything else is lost business and lost business is lost revenue. What we do with this gift is the key.

 

Leveraging Change

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEO’s. Ron Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors. Both share their expertise in how to get the job done and get results!

The Change Monster:
The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
Jeanie Daniel Duck
Monsters are scary. This is the first book on the central issue that blows so many change efforts out of the water. An unusual book on business written from the heart as well as the head.

Who Moved My Cheese?
An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spenser Johnson M.D., Kenneth H. Blanchard
Here’s a quick read to engage your leaders and teams into empowerment. We need to go out and make things happen for us nobody is going to give it to us and the past is the past.

 

Life Skills

Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Dr. Seuss
What can Dr. Seuss teach us about business? Find out why CEO’s and leaders in business give this book out as gifts to motivate their teams. This book provides powerful metaphor for life and business. Congratulations you’re off to great places!

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen Covey’s awesome message that has jumped started many careers and taken leaders to places they never could imagine. This is where success begins.

 

The Power of Positive Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale
A must read for everyone-everywhere!

 

 

Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work:
101 Stories of Courage, Compassion and Creativity in the Workplace
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte, Tim Clauss
101 stories that shows you that you are not alone and that life is an amazing thing.