• Why CEO’s Fail? – Fortune Magazine
• Build To Last – James Collins
• CEO Appraisals: Holding Corporate Leadership Accountable – Ed Lawler
• Change Leaders: New Commandments of Change – Peter Drucker
• Enrolling Executives In The Coaching Process – Dr. Larry Kahn
• The Essence of Leadership – Keith Merron
• Developing a Coaching Culture at PwC Using Competencies – Echols & Sinek
• Coaching Executives to Lead Organizational Change – Averett & Mangold
• A Newly Appointed Leader Dilemma – Harrison & Dunnells
• Working With Tough-minded Executives – David Coleman
• 4 Essential Ways To Coach Executives – Witherspoon & White
• 16 Sources of Leverage in Executive Coaching – Robert Kaplan
• Coaching Experientially – Paul Kidder
• The Courage For Change: How to Turn Fear Into Success – Rich Fettke
• A Holistic Approach to Coaching – Ellen Harvey
• Executive Coaching – Michael O’Brien
• Coaching: Strategies to Boost Employee Performance – Alan Fine
• The Executive Coach: Helper of Healer? – Bob Filipczak
• C Players in an A World – Phyllis Doloff
• Professional Coaching: State of the Art, State of the Practice – Peterson & Hicks
• You Already Know How to Be Great – Alan Fine with Rebecca Merrill
• Grounded Theory of the Roots and Emergence of Coaching – Vikki Brock
• Professional Coaching Language for Greater Public Understanding – David Matthew Prior
• Bad Behavior – Marshall
• The Coaching Manager, Developing Top Talent in Business – James Hunt and Joseph Weintraub
• The Trend of Coaching: Adler, the Literature, and Marketplace Would Agree – Michael Davison and Frank Gasiorowski
• What role does advice play in professional coaching? – Mike Alafaci
• Who’s Who in Coaching – Vikki Brock
• Success Intelligence, Essential Lessons and Practices from the World’s Leading Coaching Program on Authentic Success – Robert Holden
• The Hands-Off Manager – Steve Chandler and Duane Black
• Executive Coaching Gets Personal
• Can I Get My Money Back?  What’s the Return on Investment for Executive Coaching?
• 2012 ICF Global Coaching Study
• The Use and Abuse of Storytelling in Organization – Adrian Carr and Cheryl Lapp
• Action Coaching – David Dotlich and Peter Cairo
• Coaching: A Global Study of Successful Practices – American Management Association
• Great Expectations, The Secret to Coaching – Gregg Thompson
• Coaching, Counseling, and Mentoring – Florence Stone
• Coaching for Breakthrough Success – Jack Canfield and Dr. Peter Chee
• The Coaching Habit, Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever – Michael Bungay Stanier
• Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

Leadership Development

• Building Team and Organizational Trust: Powerful Coaching Conversations for Every Leader & Manager – Michael K. Simpson with Stephen M.R. Covey
• The Art & Science of Leadership – Charles Palus
• Crisis in Credibility – Art Spikol
• Power & Leadership – Blain Lee
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
• Role of Leadership in Organizational Transformation – Edgar Schein
• Leadership That is Forceful & Enabling – Robert Kaplan
• Personal Mastery – Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
• Honest, Simple, Solid, True – C. Terry Warner
• The Role of Conscience in Modern Business – Robert Gay
• Leadership & Empowerment – Warner Burke
• Control in the Age of Empowerment – Robert Simons
• Critical Conditions of Empowerment – Stephen Covey
• Leading Today & into The Future – Ann Van Eron
• An Adventure in Enlightened Leadership – Ed Oakley
• Five Moments of Truth in Becoming a Leader – Dr. Dee Groberg
• The Four Role of Leadership – Stephen Covey
• Principle Centered Living – Stephen Covey
• High Involvement Leadership – Ann Howard
• Strategic Leadership – Richard Hughes
• Integrity in Leadership – Nilson & Hernez-Broome
• Gandhi’s Seven Blunders – Donella Meadows
• Leading People to World Class Performance – Michael Simpson
• Leadership & Spirituality in the Workplace – Jay Conger
• The Other Side of Leadership – Stanley Herman
• You Can’t Order Change – Peter S. Cohan
• Leadership Excellence – Marshall Goldsmith
• The 8th Habit – Stephen Covey
• Becoming a Great Leader Interview with Michael Simpson – Accountants Today
• Insights Interview with Michael Simpson
• Just Listen – Mark Goulston
• Leaders Who Develop Leaders
• What’s so Effective About Stephen Covey? – Fortune
• Making Work Meaningful: A Leader’s Guide – Dan Cable and Freek Vermeulen
• The Speed of Trust – Stephen Covey with Rebecca Merrill
• Primal Leadership – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
• Average First – Level Leaders Are Falling Behind

Management Development

• The Transformation of American Management – Dr. W. Edwards Deming
• First Things First: Time Management – A. Roger Merrill
• Management by Positive Consequences – Kenneth Blanchard
• Character is Core of Effective Management – Stephen Covey
• Managing By Values – Mitchell & O’Neal, Business Week
• Management Mavericks – Pam Walsh
• Management: Why Reengineer Management? – Michael Hammer
• Managing – Phillip Zweig
• When to Help and When Not to Help – Kenneth Blanchard
• The Art of Control – Sarah Stiansen
• Empowering: The Expanding Role of Followers – Carri Jenkins
• My Boss Makes Me Sick! – Kenneth Blanchard
• Managing Your Boss – Gabarro & Kotter
• Why Managers Must Be Facilitators – John Naisbitt
• 4 Components of Management Authority – William Oncken
• Soviets Study U.S. Style of Management – Lawrence Goodrich
• Coaching as a Mentoring Tool – Bruce Hodes
• How to Manage Your Employees – Jim Cathcart
• Getting Management to Speak the Same Language: Talking Down Barriers – Trudy Fong
• Psychological Resistance to and Facilitation of Power-sharing in Organizations – Peter Coleman

Strategy & Business Planning

• The Execution-Focused Leader – Michael K. Simpson with Alan Hyatt and Amber Romine, from PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Creating & Leading Strategic Combinations – Delta Consulting
• Strategy Formulation – Change Integration Methodology
• Strategy Diagnostic & Strategy Formulation – Change Integration Methodology
• Model for Reinventing Strategic Planning – Centre for Strategic Management
• Strategy Concepts & Competitive Analysis – PwC Consulting
• Role of Leadership in Strategy Building – FranklinCovey
• Sustainable Advantage – James Anderson
• Creative Strategy – James Bandrowskis
• Competitive Advantage – Stephen Covey
• Alignment With The Stream – Marketing Institute of Cambridge Massachusetts
• Fishing The Stream – Ken Shelton
• Strategic Business Planning – Stromberg & Hunt
• Visioneering: The Path to the Future – Joe Batten
• Strategic Planning – John Byrne, Business Week
• Fighting Talk: War & Business – Wee Chow Hou, National University of Singapore
• The Cultural Roots of Strategy, Carlos Cavalle
• Considerations For Your Listening Strategy – Huw Wigley
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution – Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling
• Digital Strategy: The Four Fights You Have to Win – Tanguy Catlin, Laura LaBerge, and Shannon Varney
• Blue Ocean Strategy – W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
• Execution – Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

Organization Mission, Vision, & Values Planning

• Building Team and Organizational Trust: Powerful Coaching Conversations for Every Leader & Manager  – Michael K. Simpson with Stephen M.R. Covey
• A New Lens on Mission & Vision – Robert Goldberg
• Does Your Organization Need a Mission? – Andrew Campbell
• Organizational Vision & Visionary Organizations? Collins & Porras
• Shaping & Managing Shared Values – Phillips & Kennedy
• Values, Knowledge Drive Growth – Jack Welch, GE
• Beyond Flexibility: Building & Managing the Dynamically Stable Organization – Boynton & Victor
• Organizational Impact Statement – White Paper
• Corporate Constitution – Covey Leadership Center
• Corporate Mission Statement: The Bottom Line – Pearce & David
• Why Do You Go To Work? – Michael Kinsman
• Mission Statement Research: Missions That Motivate – Stephen Covey
• VIP Connection: Writing a Personal Mission Statement – Principle Centered Leadership
• Why We Marched in 1963′? Mission, Vision, Values, & Speech – Martin Luther King
• I Have a Dream

Organizational Culture & Performance

• Building Team and Organizational Trust: Powerful Coaching Conversations for Every Leader & Manager – Michael K. Simpson with Stephen M.R. Covey
• Culture of Truth – Bill Adams
• Facing The Complexities of Culture Change – MIT Case Study
• Facing The Complexities of Culture Change – MIT Case Study
• Understanding & Assessing Your Organizations Culture – Hagberg & Heifetz
• Driving Fear Out of The Workplace – Ryan & Oestreich
• Culture Change: Managing Organizational Behavior – PwC Consulting
• Corporate Culture – Kotter & Heskett
• Culture & Performance: Focus Directly on Culture Indirectly – Paradox Principle book
• Forging A New Culture – Paradox Principle book
• Leadership Empowerment: Turning Resistance Into Commitment – Dr. Dee Groberg
• Leadership as Managed cultural Change – Ed. Schein
• Empowering Others: Paradigm, Principles, Processes – Dr. Dee Groberg
• 100 Best companies To Work For – Fortune Magazine
• Corporate Culture & Performance – Nathan & Tyler
• The Power of Gratitude in the Workplace – Taryn Barnes
• Strengthening the trust at Frito-Lay – Cheryl Hall
• Managing Your Time Survey

Organizational Design & Process Improvement

• Levers of Change & Organizational Performance Model – PwC Consulting
• Data Gathering & Analysis – PwC Consulting
• 8 Characteristics of Organizational Effectiveness – Joseph Toto
• 6 Conditions of Organizational Effectiveness – Stephen Covey
• Quality Means Satisfying Customers – Xerox Leadership Through Quality
• Out of Crisis – W. Edwards Deming
• Quality if Free – Philip Crosby
• Executive and Organizational Coaching Engagements: Roles

Managing Organizational Change

• Why Companies Fail?: 10 Fatal Mistakes – Charan & Useem, Fortune Magazine
• From Bogged Down to Fired Up: Inspiring Organizational Change – Bert Spector
• The 10 Laws of Change – Noel Tichey, Fast Company
• Why Is Change So Difficult to Assimilate? – Michael Feiner, Columbia Business School
• Talking About Change – Robert Goldberg
• Change Integration Life Cycle Consulting Stages – PwC Consulting
• Systems Thinking: What People Need During Transitions – Steven Haines
• Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership – Stephen Covey
• The Change Decision: Before and After – Paddy Miller
• Managing Change In Turbulent Times – Warner Burke, Columbia University
• Managing Change Questionnaire, Model, and Processes – Warner Burke, Columbia University
• Change Continuum: Typical Reactions to Change – John Katzenbach
• Transition Leaders: Transition Responsibilities – APEX Case
• Energizing Change Leaders: Roles and Behavior Coaching – Global Leaders White Paper
• Energizing Change Leaders: Delivering Executive Leadership – Global Leadership White Paper
• Metaphors for Change: Model of Change Management – Pearce & Osmond
• Large Scale Corporate Transformation – White Paper
• The Planned Change Process – White Paper
• Engineering Organizational Change – Holland & Davis

Organizational Learning

• Building Organizational Learning Capability – Anthony DiBella
• Building Learning Organizations – Peter Senge, MIT
• The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge
• The Heart of Learning Organizations – Kofman & Senge
• The Leader’s New Work: Building Learning Organizations – Peter Senge
• Becoming Critically Reflective Through Action Learning – O’Neil & Marsick
• Who’s Learning What? – Victoria Marsick, Training Magazine
• Selecting Needs Analysis Methods – Edith Allen, ASTD Trainers Toolkit
• Supportive Learning Activities Through Effective Facilitation – Facilitators Toolkit
• Adult Learning: What Do We Know For Sure? – Ron Zemke

Team Building

• The Execution-Focused Leader – Michael K. Simpson with Alan Hyatt and Amber Romine, from PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Teams: It’s All in the Planning – Lawrence Holpp
• A Team Built on Trust – Ann Mahoney
• Real Teams Capability Framework – PwC Consulting Team Matrix, Model, & Elements
• Moving Beyond Team Myths – Beck & Yeager
• Realizing the Potential of Teams Through Team-based Rewards – Saunier & Hawk
• Competency-based Pay Systems – Jahja & Kleiner, HRM Magazine
• Conducting a Needs Assessment for Your Work Group – H. McArdle
• Wisdom of Teams – Katzenbach & Smith
• High Performance Teams – Corporate Case Study of Do’s & Don’ts
• It Starts With Trust: Building Organizational Effectiveness – Farnsworth & Blender
• Improve The Process of Team Evolution – Ed. Schein
• Role Clarification – CLC Role Exercise
• Getting To Yes – Fisher & Ury
• Creating Better Teams: 5 Dimensions of Effective Teams – Chronister & Gilliam
• Effects of Leadership Style & Problem Structure on Work Groups – Kahai, Sosik, Avolio
• Creating & Sustaining Win-Win Agreements – CLC Content & Exercise
• The Challenge for Team Development – Montebello & Buzzotta
• Performance Agreement – CLC Agreement Exercise
• Participatory Decision-Making – Sam Kaner, Facilitators Guide
• Peak Performer as Team Player – Charles Garfield

Conflict Resolution & Negotiations

• SMR Forum: Managing Conflict – Leonard Greenhalgh, Dartmouth College
• Cultural Perspectives on International Negotiations – Paul Kimmel
• Why Are Some Societies More Conflictual Than Others? – M. Ross
• Conflict, Culture, and Cross-Culture Methods – Axelrod
• Educating For a Peaceful World – Morton Deutsch, Columbia University ICCCR
• The Healing Power of Forgiveness – Dr. Eileen Borris
• Power & Leadership Content & Tools – Lee & Covey
• Paradigms & Paradigm Shifting Content & Tools – Dr. Stephen Covey
• The Balance Between Production and Production Capability – Dr. Stephen Covey
• Seek First To Understand Then To Be Understood Content 7 Tools – Dr. Stephen Covey
• Overview
• Typology of Conflict — Oomkes and Thomas
• Overview of Conflict and Negotiation
• Negotiation Behaviors
• Dealing With Anger
• Collaborative Negotiations: Skills Training Workbook – Raider & Coleman, ICCCR
• The Dynamic of Conflict – Conflict Workshop Skills Guide
• Critical Skills for conflict Resolution – Managing and Solving Conflict Guide
• The Solutions Focus – Paul Z. Jackson and Mark McKergow

Globalization & Business Process Outsourcing

• Off-shoring: Is It a Win-Win Game? – McKinsey Global Institute
• BPO Adoption in Asia/Pacific: A Demand-side Perspective – Gartner Group
• Trends, Accelerators and Inhibitors in the BPO Market – Gartner Group
• Multi-client Shared Services: Outsourcing’s New Model – Kathleen Goolsby
• India: Rise to BPO Dominance in Asia – Jones Lang LaSalle
• Cost vs. Value of Using an Outsourcing Consultant – Kathleen Goolsby
• Build Relationships Around Service Provider Strengths – Peter Samuel
• Outsourcing Abroad Draws Debate at Home – Clare Ansberry, Wall Street Journal
• Relocating The Back Office – The Economist
• Forward Thinking – Lynn Blodgett, ACS
• Global Outsourcing: Financial Services Options – Don Free, Gartner Group
• Finance & Accounting Outsourcing – Michael Gant, HRO Magazine
• Can Outsourcing Really Transform IT? – Tech Strategy, Forrester
• Can Buyers Live Happily Ever After with a BPO Niche Provider? K. Goolsby
• Outsourcing Collaborative Logistics Empowers Retail Supply Chain Managers – G. Bowen
• Universality of Principles – Dr. Dee Groberg
• A World Out of Control – Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Managing Cultural Differences for Competitive Advantage – Lisa Hoecklin
• Globalization, Jobs, Debt, & Recession – Peter Drucker
• A View of Globalization – Adel Safty
• Coaching Culturally Diverse Executives – Thorn & Blimline
• Understanding the Demands of Leading in a Global Environment – Wilson & Dalton
• Visions: Global Trends – Sharon Leonard, SHRM
• The Next China – Sancton & Davos, Time Magazine

Entrepreneur/Start-up Venture Launch Pad

• Entrepreneurialism & Culture – Jason Pontin
• Leading Renewal: The Value of Positive Turbulence – Stanley Gryskiewicz
• E-business – PWC
• My Son, The Downsizer – George Gendron
• Making Business Better Than Ever – Stephen Covey
• Visions of the Internet Age
• The Road To Riches – Carol Stabler
• American Competitiveness

Books by Michael K. Simpson

• Ready, Aim, Excel: The Expert Insights Weekly Guide to Personal and Professional Leadership – Michael K. Simpson with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith and Dr. Kenneth Blanchard
• Talent Unleashed: 3 Essential Leadership Conversations – Michael K. Simpson with Roger Merrill, Todd Davis, and Shawn Moon
• Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, & Organizations – Michael K. Simpson
• Your Seeds of Greatness: The World’s Greatest Individual Leadership Quote Book – Michael K. Simpson
• Your Seeds of Greatness: The World’s Greatest Team Leadership Quote Book – Michael K. Simpson
• Your Seeds of Greatness: The World’s Greatest Organizational Leadership Quote Book – Michael K. Simpson
• Your Seeds of Greatness: The World’s Greatest Societal Leadership Quote Book – Michael K. Simpson

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Whitepapers by Michael K. Simpson

• Building Team and Organizational Trust: Powerful Coaching Conversations for Every Leader & Manager – Michael K. Simpson with Stephen M.R. Covey
• The Execution-Focused Leader – Michael K. Simpson with Alan Hyatt and Amber Romine, from PriceWaterhouseCoopers