Some interesting reading material on coaching-related topics:
Leadership and Management
Acting with Power - Deborah Gruenfeld
The Leadership Challenge - James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Total Leadership - Stewart Friedman
Presence - Patsy Rodenburg
Primal Leadership - Daniel Goleman
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change - Beth Comstock & Tahl Raz
The Trusted Advisor - David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford
Managing the Professional Services Firm - David Maister
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? - Seth Godin
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leaders's Guide to Empowering - Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
Developing the Working Environment
Time to Think - Nancy Kline
Humble Inquiry - Edgar Schein
Deep Work - Cal Newport
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - Adam Grant
The Start-Up Way - Eric Ries
Conversational Intelligence - Judith Glaser
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change - Jared Diamond
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters - Kate Murphy
Women and Work
What Works: Gender Equality by Design - Iris Bohnet
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
The Confidence Code - Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Women & Power - Mary Beard
Women & Leadership - Barbara Kellerman
The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership - Sally Helgesen
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back - Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - Melinda Gates
How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking - Viv Groskop
Insights, Behaviours and Wellbeing
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and The Art of Wellbeing - Brian Little
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Mindset - Carol Dweck
Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivatations - Dan Ariely
Black Box Thinking/Bounce - Matthew Syed
Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith
Drive - Dan Pink
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Emotional Agility - Susan David
Wilful Blindness - Margaret Heffernan
Barking up the Wrong Tree - Eric Barker
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy - Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
A Curious Mind: the Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
How to Fail - Elizabeth Day
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World - Vivek Murphy
Sway: The Science of Unconscious Bias - Pragya Agarwal
Career Change and Planning
Working Identity - Herminia Ibarra
Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career - Seth Godin
Some Older Classics
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People/The 8th Habit - Stephen Covey
The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme - Steve Peters
Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming
Coaching Journals
Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice - published in collaboration with the Association for Coaching
Coaching World - published by the International Coach Federation (ICF)
Coaching At Work (and coaching-at-work.com)
The Coaching Psychologist - published by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
International Coaching Psychology Review - published by the BPS
Coaching Today - quarterly journal of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
International Journal of Coaching in Organisations
Other Interesting and Accessible Resources, Talks etc
Harvard Business Review hbr.org
RSA Animate thersa.org
TED ted.com / TED Radio Hour
IQ2 intelligencesquared.com
How To Academy howtoacademy.com
Recommendations also available on a wide variety of academic work-related and coaching articles - please get in touch.
Leadership and Management
Acting with Power - Deborah Gruenfeld
The Leadership Challenge - James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Total Leadership - Stewart Friedman
Presence - Patsy Rodenburg
Primal Leadership - Daniel Goleman
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change - Beth Comstock & Tahl Raz
The Trusted Advisor - David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford
Managing the Professional Services Firm - David Maister
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? - Seth Godin
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leaders's Guide to Empowering - Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
Developing the Working Environment
Time to Think - Nancy Kline
Humble Inquiry - Edgar Schein
Deep Work - Cal Newport
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - Adam Grant
The Start-Up Way - Eric Ries
Conversational Intelligence - Judith Glaser
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change - Jared Diamond
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters - Kate Murphy
Women and Work
What Works: Gender Equality by Design - Iris Bohnet
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
The Confidence Code - Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Women & Power - Mary Beard
Women & Leadership - Barbara Kellerman
The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership - Sally Helgesen
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back - Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - Melinda Gates
How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking - Viv Groskop
Insights, Behaviours and Wellbeing
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and The Art of Wellbeing - Brian Little
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Mindset - Carol Dweck
Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivatations - Dan Ariely
Black Box Thinking/Bounce - Matthew Syed
Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith
Drive - Dan Pink
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Emotional Agility - Susan David
Wilful Blindness - Margaret Heffernan
Barking up the Wrong Tree - Eric Barker
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy - Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
A Curious Mind: the Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
How to Fail - Elizabeth Day
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World - Vivek Murphy
Sway: The Science of Unconscious Bias - Pragya Agarwal
Career Change and Planning
Working Identity - Herminia Ibarra
Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career - Seth Godin
Some Older Classics
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People/The 8th Habit - Stephen Covey
The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme - Steve Peters
Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming
Coaching Journals
Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice - published in collaboration with the Association for Coaching
Coaching World - published by the International Coach Federation (ICF)
Coaching At Work (and coaching-at-work.com)
The Coaching Psychologist - published by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
International Coaching Psychology Review - published by the BPS
Coaching Today - quarterly journal of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
International Journal of Coaching in Organisations
Other Interesting and Accessible Resources, Talks etc
Harvard Business Review hbr.org
RSA Animate thersa.org
TED ted.com / TED Radio Hour
IQ2 intelligencesquared.com
How To Academy howtoacademy.com
Recommendations also available on a wide variety of academic work-related and coaching articles - please get in touch.