For the past three years, I’ve met monthly with my business coach, Dan Kries. His company, Circle Consulting, has played a significant role in my growth and success.
Recently, during The Q—a coaching group for business owners that Dan leads—he posed a powerful question for all of us to consider.
“To grow your business, you have to grow yourself. It’s a never-ending process of personal development. When you get better, your business gets better. If you stop learning and growing, you business stops evolving into something better.”
Do you agree with that statement? I sure do.
If you’re a leader in a business these’s a huge cost to being stagnant: an ineffective leadership team, distrust, lost revenue, decreasing profit margins, employee turnover, anxiety, and even business failure.
Reading great books and discussing the content for application, is an essential way to grow. Here are 5 books I use with leaders and leadership teams frequently in coaching. Each one has the potential to transform your life and business.
Here’s how I decided on this list:
- I’ve read the book multiple times because it’s been so helpful.
- Because it’s so helpful, I own it in more than one format (print, audio, digital, etc.).
- I’m confident I’ll still recommend it in 25 years because the principles are timeless.
- The concepts are easy to grasp and practical.
- We’re so passionate about the usefulness of the content, we frequently give the book away.
5 Business Bookshelf MVPs
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni
Some concepts from The Advantage that will help you and your team grow
- Building trust while establishing a cohesive leadership team.
- Successfully addressing the hard topics you’re avoiding that are holding everyone back.
- Creating clarity and alignment around goals, vision, values, etc.
- Clarifying a vision that inspires everyone.
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbringer Institute
Some concepts from Leadership and Self-Deception that will help you and your team grow
- Grasping how self-awareness is essential to leadership and personal growth.
- How mindset-not just methods-drives meaningful change in teams and organization.
- How to shift to “out of the box” behaviors that consider others’ needs.
- Teaching how to hold each other accountable for staying “out the box” and working collaboratively.
Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work by Steven Pressfield
Some concepts from Turning Pro that will help you and your team grow
- The steps to go from being an amateur in your career to a true professional.
- Handling the mental and emotional roadblocks to going big in your life professionally.
- Tapping into your unique gifting and embracing it in yourself and those on your team.
- How to find our power, our will, our voice, and our self-respect professionally (and personally).
The Anatomy of Peace : Resolving The Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
Some concepts from The Anatomy of Peace that will help you and your team grow
- Shifting from blaming and defending to a mindset focused on understanding and solving problems together.
- Avoiding building resentment because you’re addressing the core issues.
- Transforming conflict while reminding us that peace is possible, but it starts within.
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Geno Wickman
Some concepts from Traction that will help you and your team grow
- Solve issues quickly, lead with confidence, and keep leadership teams moving in the same direction.
- Clarifying where you’re business is heading over the next 1, 3, 5 and 10 years.
- Setting measurable targets and creating systems for accountability.
- Getting the right people in the right seats.
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