Resources From Leadership Lessons with The Beatles

Here is a handy list of the resources included in the book.

Part 1 Leadership Attributes

Getting Better

Alan Loy McGinnis, The Power of Optimism (HarperCollins, 1990)
Martin E. P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (Free Press, 2006).

Within You Without You

Peter A. Schein & Edgar Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018).
Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (Harper Business, 2001).

The Long and Winding Road

Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Ballantine Books, 2007).
Danny Penman & Mark Williams, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Rodale Books, 2012).
Angela Lee Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Scribner Book Company, 2016).

Get Back

Warren Berger, The Book of Beautiful Questions (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).
Kate Murphy, You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters (Celadon Books, 2020).
Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008).
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Random House Publishing Group, 2005).

Help!

Think For Yourself

Charlie T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Walsworth Publishing Company, 2005).
Edward de Bono, Lateral thinking: creativity step by step (Harper & Row, 1970).
Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien, The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts (Latticework Publishing Inc., 2019).
Roger Martin, The Opposable Mind (Harvard Business Review Press, 2009).
Frans Johansson, The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017).
Farnam Street, “Reading Better,” fs.blog, accessed July 27, 2021, https://fs.blog/reading/.

Part 2 Leadership Skills

I Want to Tell You

Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People (Simon and Schuster, 1998).
Kerry Patterson et al., Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (McGraw-Hill Education, 2011).

We Can Work It Out

Roger Fisher et al., Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Penguin Books, 2011)
Program On Negotiation–Executive Education, Harvard Law School, accessed June 11, 2021, https://www.pon.harvard.edu/executive-education/.
Diane Musho Hamilton, Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Shambhala, 2013).

Anytime At All

Tom J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr., In Search of Excellence, Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. (Harper Business, 2006).
Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Riverhead Books, 2011).
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People (Simon and Schuster, 1998).

I Me Mine

Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (Portfolio, 2014).
Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Riverhead Books, 2011).
Marty Cagan, EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Wiley, 2020).
Adam Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Penguin Books. Kindle Edition, 2013).

All You Need is Love

Tom J. Peters, Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism (Networlding Publishing, 2021).
Mark C. Crowley, Lead From the Heart: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century (Balboa Press, 2011).
Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Wiley, 2018).
Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Bantam, 2018).

Part 3 Leadership Mastery

I’ve Got A Feeling

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
Gary Klein, The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work (Currency, 2004).

Hello, Goodbye

Daniel Goleman, Leadership That Gets Results (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017).
Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (Page Two, 2016).

Part 4 Care

Let It Be

Look for a mindfulness meditation center focused on reducing stress in your town.
“Building your resilience,” American Psychological Association, 2012, accessed July 12, 2021, https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience.

The Inner Light

John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (HarperCollins Leadership, 2007).
Carol S. Dweck, “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” (Ballantine Books, 2007).

When I’m Sixty-Four

Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life (Knopf, 2016).
Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction (Blue Sparrow, 2015).

Shantha Mohan