The Courage to Act: 5 Factors of Courage to Transform Business Merom Klein and Rod Napier Published by Davies-Black Publishing 2003 Courage is not just the extraordinary acts of adventurers and visionaries. In workplaces where jobs can change with the stroke of a pen, having the courage to speak and hear the truth, inspire hope, take a stand, and trust in relationships is what defines high performers. With powerful examples of courage in action, The Courage to Act explores the skills needed to embrace change and capitalize on opportunities, inspire courage in your teammates, and respond to your own personal moments of truth with the courage to push ahead and make the right things happen. click here to order the book from Amazon.com Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel Ph.D. Published by Wharton School Publishing 2007 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Measuring what matters: Simplified Tools for Aligning Teams and Their Stakeholders Rod Napier and Rich McDaniel Published by Davies-Black 2006 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Courage: The Backbone of Leadership Gus Lee and Diane Elliott-Lee Published by Jossey-Bass 2006 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Winning Teams - Winning Cultures Larry Senn and Jim Hart Leadership Press 2006 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Moral Courage Rushworth M. Kidder Published by Harper Paperbacks 2006 click here to order the book from Amazon.com First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection; Halutzim from America during the Palestine mandate Matthew Silver Published by Bantam Books, New York 1998 Matt Silver gives a vivid, compelling character portrait of idealistic young pioneers who chose to leave "the good life in America" behind in order to re-claim and re-build our Homeland in Zion. Since most of the immigrants to Israel in that era came from Eastern Europe and from other Middle Eastern countries, the Americans profiled by Professor Silver were clearly out of step with the majority -- by virtue of their American ideals and their American comforts. This is a must-read for anyone who's looking for contemporary lessons about how today's Israelis can balance democratic ideals and the fulfilment of the Jewish Nationalist Dream, after nearly 2000 years in exile. There's a fine line, some people say, between courage and madness -- and Professor Silver shows us the very human story of how these heroes flirted with that line as they dedicated their lives to bringing The American Dream and American Democracy to the Land of Zion. We're especially touched by Prof Silver's portrait of the founder of Hebrew University and his personal courage. We look forward to the movie, but, until then, this compelling history will have to suffice. click here to order the book from Amazon.com Golda Meir Angela Olivares Published by Edimat Libros 2006 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges Dean Williams Published by Berrett-Koehler 2005 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Leadership Courage David Cottrell Published by The WALK THE TALK Company 2005 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life John McCain and Marshall Salter Published by Random House 2004 click here to order the book from Amazon.com The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael Watkins Published by Harvard Business School Press 2003 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold Joan Dash Published by Wipf & Stock Publishers 2003 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky Published by Harvard Business School Press 2002 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage Robin Gerber and James MacGregor Burns Published by Prentice Hall Press, 2002 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Courage Bernard Waber Suited to reading levels from ages 4 to 8 Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (Juvenile), 2002 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Embracing Fear and Finding the Courage to Live Your Life Thom Rutledge Published by Harper San Francisco, 2002 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Leadership Without Easy Answers Ronald Heifetz Published by Belknap Press 1998 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin Dan Kurzman Published by HarperCollins 1998 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Working with Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1998 Building on Reuven Bar-On's groundbreaking - on the differences between highly effective military leaders and those who incurred losses, and between highly effective business leaders and those who failed to mobilize others to achieve all that could have been achieved, Goleman describes the contribution of emotional intelligence to success in the workplace. He describes the ways of thinking, feeling and facing situations that distinguish those who can deal with and recover from adversity—or prevent it in the first place—and those who find themselves wallowing in fear and taking others down with them. click here to order the book from Amazon.com It Doesn't Take a Hero General H. Norman Schwartzkopf and Peter Petre Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1993 We had a chance to hear General Schwartzkopf speak a few years ago. I was amazed to hear a bona fide hero talk frankly about the thing that terrified him most about the mantle of leadership in the Gulf War; namely, realizing that he was the least capable person technically and had to rely on the honor, honesty, and skill of people who had more to gain from telling him what he wanted to hear, rather than telling him the real poop. He talked about the things he'd seen leaders do that bolstered their own courage at the expense of someone else's - and how that kind of leadership, ultimately, costs lives. In this book, he chronicals the events that shaped his view of courage - for the "underlings" who need to rise to a challenge and do the honorable thing, even if that means flirting with insubordination, and for the "superiors" who need to instill that kind of honor so it takes on a life of its own. click here to order the book from Amazon.com Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom - How to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business Judith Bardwick Published by AMACOM Books, New York, 1991 What can a professor of psychiatry the from University of Southern California about hard-nosed, no-nonsense management? Plenty! Bardwick argues that cost-of-living raises, tenure-driven promotion tracks and other automatic rewards don't ensure solid performance, but create an "I've-got-it-coming-to-me" mindset that destroys personal accountability. Don't expect to be told, "Thanks!" when you stop enabling mediocrity and "play-it-safe" entitlements, Bardwick warns. The first step in building accountability, the author says, is the courage that a leader needs to take a stand that is unpopular, and to do it with the empathy and tact that you would use in breaking any other addiction. click here to order the book from Amazon.com Warrior : The autobiography of Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon with David Chanoff Published by Simon and Schuster 1989 click here to order the book from Amazon.com John F. Kennedy - Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Published by Franklin Watts 1964 click here to order the book from Amazon.com Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl Published by Pocket Books 1953 click here to order the book from Amazon.com