TED Talks are an amazing resource, freely available online. Just 20 minutes long, you can watch one over a morning break and be inspired every day. These are some of my favourites:
Shawn Anchor, The Happy Secret to Better Work
Emily Balcetis, Why Some People Find Exercise Harder Than Others
Jill Bolte Taylor, Stroke of Insight
Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts
Catherine Courage, Igniting Creativity to Transform Corporate Culture
Amy Cuddy, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
Angela Lee Duckworth, The Key to Success? Grit
Jia Jiang, Surprising Lessons from 100 Days of Rejection
Tony Robbins, Decisions & Destiny
Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Barry Schwartz, Our Loss of Wisdom
Simon Sinek, How Great Leaders Inspire Action
David Steindl-Rast, Want to be Happy? Be Grateful
Itay Talgam, Lead Like the Great Conductors
Peer Advisory Groups
TEC Canada and Vistage publish lots of meaningful testimonials online, including these:
Bruce Buchan, CEO Clean River Inc
Carolyn Cross, Chairman & CEO, Ondine Biomedical Inc
Jim Davidson, Chairman & CEO, First Energy Capital Corporation
Peter Ganahl, CEO, Ganahl Lumber Co.
Leadership Books
Many of the people I meet use e-readers and audio books but here are links to Amazon print copies of some powerful reads that I have enjoyed and from there you can find your way to your preferred medium.
Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Steven R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Maria Gonzalez, Mindful Leadership
Roy Jenkins, Churchill, An Autobiography
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Patrick Lencioni, The Five Temptations of a CEO
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Daniel H. Pink, To Sell is Human
Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations
Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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