Kenneth Blanchard, John P. Carlos and Alan Randolph, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute. Second Edition. Berrett-Koehler, 2001. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Another excellent book in typical Blanchard story format, this time on a popular principle in management circles – empowerment. The authors present three keys of empowerment: Share accurate information with everyone
Kenneth Blanchard, John P. Carlos and Alan Randolph, The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People by Talking about the Challenges for Astonishing Results. Berrett-Koehler, 2001. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership Situational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an expression of empowering leadership. It builds on the principles in Empowerment Takes More than a Minute,
Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership. William Morrow, 1999. Referenced in: Situational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume integrates the One-Minute Manager principles with the strategies of Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II. Situational Leadership II suggests one should adjust leadership styles depending on the levels
Kenneth Blanchard, Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence. David C. Cook, 2007. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a distillation of the essential principles of Blanchard’s writings. This book is not in the same parable form as his other works. Instead, thirty-six principles are summarized into brief statements and
Kenneth Blanchard, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performance Organizations. FT Press, 2006. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the essential Kenneth Blanchard on the subject of empowerment, encapsulating decades of research and 30 years of consulting and writing. It gathers the teachings that occur in story format
Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization. Collins Business, 2005. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a readable and often witty distillation of the principles which Bennis, author of On Becoming A Leader, and Townsend, author of Up the Organization, have discussed in their other books. Reinventing
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith, Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader. 4th Edition. Basic Books, 2010. Prequel: Bennis and Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the companion manual for Warren Bennis’ classic, On Becoming a Leader, which builds off the research of Leaders: Strategies
Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic. Revised Edition. Basic Books, 2003. Prequel: Bennis and Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge Sequel: Bennis and Goldsmith, Learning to Lead Workbook Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Bennis discusses a kind of leadership that is both transformational and empowering. This volume is largely an expansion on
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge. 2nd Edition. Collins Business, 2007. Sequel: Bennis, On Becoming A Leader Referenced in: Transformational Leadership Empowering Leadership Leader-Manager Continuum LifeandLeadership.com Summary This management classic expresses a kind of leadership that is transformational and empowering. It also does a good job explaining the leadership-management continuum. It
Max De Pree, Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving People. Jossey-Bass, 2003. Referenced in: Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary De Pree is one of the most widely referenced authors on transformational, empowering and servant leadership philosophies. In my opinion, this is De Pree’s best book as it relates to congregational leadership. He applies the principles from Leadership
