The Art of Creative Thinking
Gerard Nierenberg
The Art of Possibility: Transforming professional and personal life
Rosamund Zander & Benjamin Zander
Color Outside the Lines: A revolutionary approach to creative leadership
Howard Hendricks
The Creative Leader: Unleashing the power of your creative potential
Ed Young
How to Get Ideas
Jack Foster
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven steps to genius every day
Michael Gelb
A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using your explorer, artist, judge, and warrior to be more creative
Roger von Oech
Six Thinking Hats
Edward De Bono
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How you can be more creative
Roger von Oech
Leadership Books
We have a number of resources available to all who have completed the Ben M. Elrod
Servant-Leadership course at the Elrod Center. We DO NOT want these resources just
sitting on a shelf in the Elrod Center. We want them in your hands so they can make
their way into your heart and life!
ALL of these books may be checked out. Simply email your request to Diane Runyan along with your mailing address. She'll send you the book (even if you're in Fiji).
Obviously, we'd appreciate it if you return the book in a timely manner. A few of
the titles below are currently checked out, so you will have to wait untill the other
reader returns the book.
Creative Thinking
Interpersonal Skills
Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together: A pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life
William Isaacs
Getting to Yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in
Roger Fisher & William Ury
Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders
John Baldoni
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
How to Say It: Choice words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs for every situation
Rosalie Maggio
Whale Done!: The power of positive relationships
Ken Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, & Jim Ballard
Leadership, Christian/Church-Focused
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow them and people will follow you
John Maxwell
The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day: Revitalize your spirit and empower your leadership
John Maxwell
Basic Christian Leadership: Biblical models of church, gospel and ministry
John Stott
Case Studies from the Bible: The Good Book on leadership
John Borek, Danny Lovett, & Elmer Towns
Courageous Leadership
Bill Hybels
Excellence in Leadership: Reaching goals with prayer, courage & determination
John White
Inspirational Management
Sylvia Nash
Jesus, CEO: Using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
Laurie Beth Jones
Jesus on Leadership: Discovering the secrets of servant leadership from the life of Christ
C. Gene Wilkes
Leaders: Learning leadership from some of Christianity’s best
Harold Myra (editor)
Leaders on Leadership: Wisdom, advice and encouragement on the art of leading God’s people
George Barna
The Leadership Lessons of Jesus: A timeless model for today’s leaders
Bob Briner & Ray Pritchard
Leading by Design: Follow Jesus’ example in leading twelve types of people
Andrew Westmoreland (with Patrick Springle)
Leading Without Power: Finding hope in serving Community
Max Depree
Love and Profit: The art of caring Leadership
James Autry
Moses on Management: 50 leadership lessons from the greatest manager of all time
David Baron (with Lynette Padwa)
The Next Generation Leader
Andy Stanley
Running With The Giants
John Maxwell
Spiritual Leadership: Responding to God’s Call
J. Oswald Saunders (with Neil Knierim & Yvonne Burrage)
Spurgeon on Leadership
Larry Michael
A Tale of Three Kings
Gene Edwards
A Work of Heart: Understanding how God shapes spiritual leaders
Reggie McNeal
Leadership, General
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful lessons in personal change
Stephen Covey
The Absolutes of Leadership
Philip Crosby
The Art of Leadership: A practical guide for people in positions of responsibility
J. Donald Walters
Artful Work: Awakening joy, meaning, and commitment in the workplace
Dick Richards
Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way: From basic training on to victory
Dan Carrison & Rod Walsh
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the age of the quick fix
Edwin Friedman
Getting it Done: How to lead when you’re not in charge
Roger Fisher & Alan Sharp
The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the art of influence
Ken Blanchard
The Heart of Leadership: How to inspire, encourage and motivate people to follow you
Elizabeth Jeffries
How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints Are On The Knife?: And other meditations on management
Jerry Harvey
The Leader of the Future: New visions, strategies, and practices for the next era
Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, & Richard Beckhard (editors)
The Leader’s Window: Mastering the four styles of leadership to build high-performing teams, 2nd Edition
John Beck & Neil Yeager
Leadership
Rudolph Guliani
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering order in a chaotic world
Margaret Wheatley
Leadership is an as Art
Max DePree
The Leadership Challenge: How to keep getting extraordinary things done in organizations
James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Leadership Jazz
Max DePree
The Leadership Moment: Nine true stories of triumph and disaster and their lessons for us all
Michael Useem
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts
Leading People From the Middle: The universal mission of heart and mind
William Robinson
Learning to Lead: A workbook on becoming a leader
Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith
Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in leadership
Richard Farson
The Master Motivator: Secrets of inspiring leadership
Mark Hansen & Joe Batten
A Passion for Excellence: The leadership difference
Tom Peters & Nancy Austin
Primal Leadership: Realizing the power of emotional intelligence
Daniel Golemean, Richard Boyatzis, & Annie McKee
The Principles of Scientific Management
Frederick Taylor
The Pursuit of WOW!: Every person’s guide to topsy-turvy times
Tom Peters
A Simpler Way
Margaret Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers
The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
Hans Finzel
Leading Change
A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change
Price Pritchett & Ron Pound
Business as Unusual: The Handbook for managing and supervising organizational change
Price Pritchett & Ron Pound
Carpe Manana: Before tomorrow seizes you
Price Pritchett
Change Happens: Finding your way though life’s transitions
C.W. Brister
The Circle of Innovation
Tom Peters
Coaching Change: Breaking down resistance, building up hope
Thomas Bandy
Communicating for a Change
Andy Stanley & Lane Jones
Culture Shift: The employee handbook for changing corporate culture
Price Pritchett
Diffusion of Innovations, 4th Edition
Everett Rogers
Discontinuity and Hope: Radical change and the path to the future
Lyle Schaller
The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits For a Radically Changing World: 13 ground rules for job success in the information age
Price Pritchett
Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change
Price Pritchett
Leading Change
John Kotter
Leading Change: The argument for values-based leadership
James O’Toole
The Mars Pathfinder Approach to “Faster-Better-Cheaper”
Price Pritchett & Brian Muirhead
Mindshift: The employee handbook for understanding the changing world of work
Price Pritchett
Ping: A frog in search of a new pond
Stuart Gold
Resistance: Moving beyond the barriers to change
Price Pritchett
Strategies for Change
Lyle Schaller
Understanding Organizational Change: The contemporary experience of people at work
Patrick Dawson
Who Moved My Cheese?: An a-mazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life
Spencer Johnson
Leading Teams
The ABC’s of Empowered Teams: Building blocks for success
Mark Towers
Leading the Team-Based Church: How pastors and church staffs can grow together into a powerful fellowship of leaders
George Cladis
Managing Teams
Robert Heller
Organizing Genius: The secrets of creative collaboration
Warren Bennis & Patricia Biederman
Teamwork: 16 Steps to building a high-performance team
Price Pritchett
When Sparks Fly: Igniting creativity in groups
Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
Motivating Workers/Employees
The 8 Laws of Leadership: Making extraordinary leaders out of ordinary believers
Elmer Towns
Doing the Impossible: Motivating yourself and other for the maximum
Neil Jackson
Fish!: A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results
S. Lundin, H. Paul, & J. Christensen
Gung Ho!: Turn on the people in any organization
Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
Hidden Value: How great companies achieve extraordinary results with ordinary people
By Charles O’Reilly & Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Leadership Engine: Building leaders at every level
Noel Tichy (with Eli Cohen)
The Leadership Pill: The missing ingredient in motivating people today
Ken Blanchard & Marc Muchnick
Learning to Lead: Bringing out the best in people
Fred Smith
Life as a Daymaker: Lead a life that influences the world around you by simply making someone else’s
day
David Wagner
Listen Up, Leader!: Pay attention, improve and guide
David Cottrell (with Alice Adams)
Motivational Ideas For Changing Lives
Neil Jackson
Satisfaction: How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer
Chris Denove and James D. Power IV
Mentoring
Managers as Mentors: Building partnerships for learning
Chip Bell
Mentoring: Confidence in finding a mentor and becoming one
Bobb Biehl
Mentoring: Personal mentors
Terry Walling
Personal Development
Creating You & Co.: Learn to think like the CEO of your own career
William Bridges
Descending into Greatness
Bill Hybels
Developing the Leader Within You
John Maxwell
Done!: How to accomplish twice as much in half the time—at home and at the office
Don Aslett
The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits For The Next Millennium: 10 new ground rules for job success
Price Pritchett
The Ethics of Excellence
Price Pritchett
Fast Growth: A career acceleration strategy
Price Pritchett
If You Want It Done Right, You Don’t Have to Do It Yourself: The power of effective delegation
Donna Genett
The Leader Within: An empowering path of self-discovery
Howard Haas (with Bob Tamarkin)
The Other 90%: How to unlock your vast untapped potential for leadership and life
Robert Cooper
Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership: The paradox of personal dysfunction
Gary McIntosh & Samuel Rima
The Present: The gift that makes you happy and successful at work and in life
Spencer Johnson
Reinventing Work: The brand you
Tom Peters
The Seven Minute Difference: Small steps to big changes
Allyson Lewis
Stewardship
Peter Block
Student Leadership Practices Inventory
James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Servant-Leadership
Improving Your Serve: The art of unselfish living
Charles Swindoll
Insights on Leadership: Service, stewardship, spirit, and servant-leadership
Larry Spears (editor)
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
Henri Nouwen
Journey to the East
Robert Hesse
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An entrepreneur’s odyssey to educate the world’s
children
John Wood
Making the Grass Greener on Your Side: A CEO’s journey to leading by serving
Ken Melrose
Reflections on Leadership: How Robert Greenleaf’s theory of servant-leadership influenced today’s top management
thinkers
Larry Spears (editor)
The Secret: What great leaders know—and do
Ken Blanchard & Mark Miller
The Servant: A simple story about leadership
James Hunter
The Servant as Leader
Robert Greenleaf
The Servant Leader
Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
The Servant Leader: How to build a creative team, develop great morale, and improve bottom-line performance
James Autry
Servants of the People
Lea Williams
The Teacher as Servant: A parable
Robert Greenleaf
