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Os Guinness: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
(R) For anyone who is wanting to better understand God's calling for each of our lives.

Walter Wright: Relational Leadership (Revised Edition): A Biblical Model for Influence and Service
(R) A foundational, well written, easy-to-comprehend source book on spiritual leadership

Robert D. Kuest: Uncommon Relationships: Bringing Healing and Joy to Our Christian Experience
(C) Bob Kuest is a leadership teacher to pastors in foreign countries. Bob's metaphor of shield and spear is taken from his ministry to pastors in Central East Africa. This book is a follow-on to his first book, Uncommon Leadership.

Daniel H. Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
(C) Challenges conventional thinking and practices about what motivates people to do what they do.

Edwin H. Friedman: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Profound systems view of all relationships - family, organization, polical. It will rock your foundations.

Warren Bennis: On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic
(R) One of the giants of leadership reseach and practice. Watch for key thoughts from the book posted each Friday.

Robert E. Quinn: Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
(R)Good reading for anyone ready to reexamine how you do "business" as a leader.

Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
(R)The prequel to Leadership and Self Deception.

Institute of Arbinger: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
(R)Simple and personally impactful in realizing our own self-justifying behaviors that put us into the box of self-betrayal. I use it extensively in my consulting and coaching.

Robert Kuest: Uncommon Leadership
(R) Well written, foundational teaching on Christ-focused servant leadership.