Resources

What I've been reading lately . . . .

• The Developing Mind, Daniel Siegel, 2001
• Leadership Without Easy Answers, Ronald Heiftez, 1998
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hoschild, 1999
• The Art of Peace, Morihei Ueshiba, 2007

Articles by Dr. Chris L. Johnson

• Leadership & Somatic Intelligence: Creating a Sustainable Future
• Letting Go of 2009

• Did You Know That Your Brain is Not Only Wired to Learn

• Garbage, Composting: Lessons in Living

• How Full is Your Cup? Opening to Change

• Life: The Card Game of Choice

• Mindfulness: Increasing Performance in the Workplace

• Tacking in Pursuit of Quality of Life

• Time Passing

• Traa dy Liooar: Time Enough

• What's Your Quality of Life?

  Book Reviews

• Coached to Lead: How to Achieve Extraordinary Results with an

        Executive Coach by Susan Battley

Reflections & Practices

• A Year in Review
• The Vacation by Anthony de Mello
• 5 Minute Practice for Managing Mood
• 5 Minute Practice for Being with 'What Is'

  Book Recommendations

Business

• Follow this Path, Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, 2002.
• Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan, 2002.
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, Seth Godin, 2003.
• Outliers:The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, 2008.

Coaching & Consulting

• Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, James Flaherty, 1999.
• Coaching for Leadership,Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, and Alyssa Freas, Eds., 2000.
• How the Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work, Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, 2001
• Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, Deborah Tannen, 2001.
• Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott, 2002.
• The Mindful Coach, Douglas Silsbee, 2004.

• Presence, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, 2004.

• Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success, Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon, 2007.

Creativity

• Creating a Life Worth Living, Carol Lloyd, 1997.
• Living Big: Embrace Your Passion and LEAP Into an Extraordinary Life, Pam Grout, 2001.
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Twyla Tharp, 2003.

Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman,
• Emotional Intelligence at Work, Hendrie Weisinger, 1998.

Family Business

• Consulting to Family Business, JaneHilburt-Davis, Gibb Dyer, Jr. 2003.

Leadership

• Leadership Without Easy Answers, Ronald Heifetz, 1998.
• Synchronicity: the Inner Path of Leadership, Joseph Jaworski, 1998
• Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, 2002.
• Leadership and Self Deception: Getting out of the Box, Arbinger Institute, 2002.
• Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, Margaret Wheatley, 2005.
• Leadership Can Be Taught, Sharon Daloz Parks, 2005.
• Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, 2005.
• Leading Leaders, Jeswald Salacuse, 2006.
• Quiet Leadership, David Rock, 2006.
• Faster, Smarter, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring and Fulfilled Leadership, Karlin Sloan, 2006.
• The Leadership Dojo:Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader , Richard Strozzi Heckler, 2007.
• The Mindful Leader: Ten Principles for Bringing Out the Best in Ourselves and Others, Michael Carroll, 2007.

Mindfulness

• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat Zinn, 1994.
• Nothing Special: Living Zen, Jo Beck & Steve Smith, 1994.
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficulty Times, Pema Chodron, 2000.
• The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd, Mary Rose O'Reilley, 2000.
• The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times,  Pema Chodron, 2002.
• Mindfulness in Plain English,  Venerable Henepola Guanaratana, 2002.
• Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, 2004.
• Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2005.

    Neuroscience

• The Developing Mind, Daniel Siegel, 1999.
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness, Antonio Damasio, 1999.
• Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, Candace B. Pert, 1999.
• The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, Esther Sternberg, MD, 2001.
• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Lynne McTaggart, 2002.
• Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Antonio Damasio, 2003.
• The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart, 2007.
• Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, Sharon Begley, 2007.
• The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, 2007.
• The Opposable Mind, Roger Martin, 2007.
• Mindsight, Daniel Siegel, 2010.

Optimism

• Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman, 2002.
• Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, 1990.
• The Science of Optimism  & Hope, Jane Gillham, Ed., 2000.

Social Justice & Economics

• The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, 2005.

Somatics

• Bodymind, Ken Dychtwald, 1977.
• Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions, Richard Strozzi Heckler, 1997.
• Holding the Center: Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion, Richard Strozzi Hecker, 1997.
• Being Human At Work: Bringing Somatic Intelliegence Into Your Professional Life, Richard Strozzi Heckler, 2003.

Stress

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Your Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1990.
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky, 1998.
• Resilience:Discovering a New Strength at Times of Stress, Frederic Flash, 2004.
• The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz, 22003.

Sustainability

• The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare, 1999.
• The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiety Revolution, Karl-Henrik Robert, 2002.
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilites for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs, 2005.
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Paul Hawken, 2007.
• Deep Economy, Bill McKibben, 2007.
• Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business, Joel Makower, 2008.
• Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices, Marc Epstein, 2008.
• Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman, 2008.
• Sustainable Value, Chris Laszlo, 2008.
• The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Peter Senge, 2008.

Women

• Becoming Your Own Great and Powerful: A Woman’s Guide to Leading Your Real,  Big Life, by Barbara Bellissimo and the Secret Order of the Tiara, 2005. (Amazon.com)

• Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, Mary Belenky, 1986.

• Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership, Linda Coughlin, Ellen Wingard, & Keith Hollihan, Eds., 2005.

• Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes,1992.

• Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work, Joyce Fletcher, 2001.

• The Eleven Commandments of Wildly Successful Women, Pamela Boucher Gilberd, 1996.

• In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Carol Gilligan,1993.

• Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center, Judith Jordan, Alexandra Kaplan, Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver, Janet Surrey, 1991.
• The Shadow Negotiation, Deborah Kolb, 2000.

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