Resources and Publications:
Here are books and articles that I have found informative over the years from several fields of study and interest. I have divided this guide into the following categories: business and leadership, psychology and philosophy, the enneagram, and meditation and spirituality.
Business and Leadership
Baldwin, Christina and Linnea, Ann, The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair
Bennis, Warren and Thomas, Robert, Crucibles of Leadership
Bohm, David, On Dialogue
Bossidy, Larry, Charan, Ram, and Burck, Charles, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Buckingham, Marcus and Clifton, Donald, Ph.D., Now, Discover your Strengths
Charan, Ram, Conquering a Culture of Indecision, Harvard Business Review.
Coles, Robert, Lives of Moral Leadership
Collins, James and Porras, Jerry, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Depree, Max, Leadership is an Art
Follett, Mary Parker, Prophet of Management
Gardner, Howard, Leading Minds
George, Bill, True North
Geus, Arie de, The Living Company
Goleman, Dan, Leadership that Gets Results, Harvard Business Review
Goleman, Dan, What Makes a Leader, Harvard Business Review
Goleman, Dan and Boyatzis, Richard, Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership
Harman, Willis, Global Mind Change
Heider, John, The Tao of Leadership Adapted for a New Age
Irvine, David and Reger, John, The Authentic Leader
Isaacs, William, Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together
Jaworski, Joseph, The Advent of Stage IV Leadership
Jaworski, Joseph, Source: the Inner Path of Knowledge Creation
Jaworski, Joseph and Flowers, Betty Sue, Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
Jaworski, Joseph, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Logan, Dave; King, John and Fischer-Wright, Halee, Tribal Leadership, Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
O'Neil, John, The Paradox of Success: When Winning at Work Means Losing at Life
Palmer, Parker, Leading from Within
Peters, Thomas, In Search of Excellence
Petzinger, Thomas, The New Pioneers
Scharmer, Otto, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges
Schmidt, John, Living Leadership, Kosmos
Senge, Peter; Scharmer, Otto; Jaworski, Joseph and Flowers, Betty Sue, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
Senge, Peter, The Fifth Discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization
Wheatley, Margaret, Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe
Wilding, Victoria, Global Leadership: Intimacy and Vulnerability from the Inside Out, Kosmos
Zemke, Ron, Raines, Claire, Raines and Filipezak, Bob, Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in your Workplace
Psychology and Philosophy
Capra, Fritjof, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millenium
Deikman, Arthur J., The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy
Eisenstein, Charles, The Ascent of Humanity
Goleman, Dan, Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter more than IQ
Hillman, James and Thomas Moore, A Blue Fire
Jourard, Sydney, The Transparent Self
Kierkegaard, Soren, Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death,
May, Gerald, M.D., Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology
May, Rollo, The Meaning of Anxiety
Tharp, Twyla, The Creative Habit
Yalom, Irvine, Existential Psychotherapy
The Enneagram
Goldberg, Michael, The 9 Ways of Working
Howe-Murphy, Roxanne, Deep Living: Transforming your Relationship to Everything That Matters Through the Enneagram
Lapida Bogda, Ginger Ph.D., Bringing out the Best in Everyone You Coach
Palmer, Helen, The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life
Riso, Don and Hudson, Russ, The Wisdom of the Enneagram
Meditation and Spirituality
Adyashanti, The End of your World
Almaas, A.H., Pearl Beyond Price
Barasch, Marc Ian, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness
Chodron, Pema, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
Chodron, Pema, The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Cope, Stephen, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Elliott, Stephen, The New Science of Breath
Epstein, Mark, Thoughts Without a Thinker
Fehmi, Les, Ph.D. and Jim Robbins, The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal the Mind and Body
Frankl, Victor, Man’s Search for Meaning
Mitchell, Stephen, Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
Zinn, Jon Kabat, Guided Mindfulness Meditation