Building Trust and Being Trustworthy: The Quintessential Leader by Sandra Ross (Sandra Ross, 2013)

The foundation for quintessential leadership is building trust and being trustworthy.

When teams, business units, organizations, and nations fail, a root cause is a lack of trust and the absence of trustworthiness in the people in leadership positions.

Trust and trustworthiness encompass character traits that not only promote loyalty and respect, but also build morale and set an example for those we lead.

Whether you lead one person or millions of people, these are essential character traits, which are each discussed in practical, “this is what it looks like” language that you can start implementing today.

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The SNAFU Principle: Eliminate Misunderstanding, Resolve Conflict and Motivate Employees by Ron Hurst (Best Seller Publishing, 2015)

The SNAFU principle – situation normal all fouled up – is designed to help managers, professionals and employees alike understand how their current reactive mode of communicating doesn’t work and is actually causing them more problems then they even realize.

Communicating the way you have always done it dooms you to mediocrity, misunderstandings and conflict.

If you are frustrated that you can’t negotiate great outcomes, can’t motivate employees, can’t convince others to see things your way, don’t feel heard or are just generally frustrated with your results you need to read and apply the lessons of this book.

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The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Should Know About the Law by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner (Jossey-Bass (Wiley), 2006)

Legal literacy saves time and money by letting you get it right from the start.

This book translates legalese into language that makes business sense and offers a new way to think about the role of law — as a strategic business tool.

Discover how to identify, manage and control problems before they spiral out of control and how to unlock legal rights you’re entitled to, but may not know about.

Get more control over unwanted risk in your business with legal literacy. Use it to build stronger business relationships, deliver sustainable shareholder value, and improve your organization’s competitive advantage.

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Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance by Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD.,DipC. (Subject2change Inc., 2015)

Organizations are desperately searching for ways to help people to contribute to the success and profitability of the enterprise.

Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance is a practical playbook that will help you shape the future of account-ability on your team.

It moves you past the outdated, ineffective ways of trying to increase performance improvement. Account-ability is about unleashing people’s unique talents so you can achieve amazing levels of engagement.

Account-ability ultimately produces positive business results – in both people and profits.

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