My 2014 book selection

Hello everyone,

In my first post of this year, I want to share with you some good books I read during 2014. I will try to split them by big “subjects”. Let’s start with my 2014 book selection:

Leadership

• Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients by Jurgen Appelo (Far one of my favorites, it mixes games with leadership lessons)
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan
• The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow by Mark Miller
• Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life by Kenneth H. Blanchard
• 7 Lenses Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership by Linda Fisher Thornton
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

Coaching

• Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance by Jonathan Passmore
• Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others by Andrew Sobel
• Commitment by Olav Maassen
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
• Creating Time by Vickie Gray (If you have people that believe in time and in money as a resource, it will be helpful to help them to understand that time and money are a priority)

Facilitator

• The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick! by Sharon L. Bowman
• Training from the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn by Sharon L. Bowman
• Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation by Russ Unger
• The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook by Roger Schwarz
• The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games by Mary Scannell
• The Big Book of Team-Motivating Games by Mary Scannell

Change Management and Innovation

• Irresistible Change Guide by Heather Stagl
• Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want by Alexander Osterwalder (a must read)
• Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method by Per Kristiansen
• The Dance of Change by Peter M. Senge (good reference book)
• The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation by Gijs van Wulfen
• 20 Change Exercises for Group Workshops by David Williams

To access to my full list of 2014 books, please go here. I hope you enjoy this selection, I am so happy that I could reach my goal of reading books for 2014.  My target was 40 books and I read 45 books. Due to this, my target for 2015 will be 50 books.

Feel free to let your comments about your favorite book/s. As you see, I want to read 50 books in this 2015, so I want to get your recommendations.

Thanks and happy new year for everyone.

Omar.