Recommended Reading

Deepen your knowledge of the five universal challenges. Ralph's recommendations follow:

Reframe the Future

• Hamel, Gary, and C.K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future, Harvard Business School Press
• Land, George, and Beth Jarman, Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today, HarperBusiness
• Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View: Planning the Future in an Uncertain World, New York, Doubleday
• Van Der Heijden, Kees. Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation, John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Build Commitment

• Beckhard, Richard, and Harris, Reuben, Managing Organization Transitions: Managing Complex Change, Addison-Wesley
• Kelley, Robert, The Power of Followership, Doubleday
• O'Toole, James, Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom, Jossey-Bass Inc.
• Wills, Garry, Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership, Simon and Schuster

Teach and Learn

• Argyris, Chris, and Schön, Donald A., Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective, Addison-Wesley.
• Vicere, Albert, and Fulmer, Robert, Leadership by Design, Harvard Business School Press
• Fritz, Robert, Creating, Ballantine Books
• Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence, Bantam

Build Community

• Gozdz, Kasimierz. Community Building, New Leaders Press
• Collins, James, and Jerry Porras., Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Harper Collins Publishers
• Hesselbein, Frances, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Bechard, and Richar Schubert. The Community of the Future, Josey-Bass Inc.
• Sullivan, Gordon, and Michael Harper. Hope is not a method, Random House, 1996

Balance Paradox

• Farson, Richard. Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership, Touchstone
• Handy, Charles. The Age of Unreason, Harvard Business School Press
• Johnson, Barry, Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unresolvable Problems HRD Press, Inc. 1996.