Recommended Books

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Trust, The Secret Weapon To Effective Business Leaders

Portrays the importance of trust in today’s corporate business community and society, and describes the characteristics for today’s leaders who want to earn the confidence of employees, colleagues, customers and the public.  Recommended for business owners and managers.

 

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable 

An excellent anecdote of five levels of workplace dysfunction, the lowest level being the absence of trust. It provides questionnaires that can be used to evaluate your own team. Recommended for supervisors, managers, and team leaders.

 

The Speed of Trust: One Thing that Changes Everything 

Authored by Covey Jr., he describes the 13 behaviors of trust inspiring leaders.  Recommended for anyone in a leadership position.

Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Defines three types of trust, what betrayal is and why it happens, and how to heal from betrayal so trust can be rebuilt.  Recommended for everyone.

                                       

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Hook (1991) 

This is a story about a grown up Peter Pan whose workaholic approach in the real world has created tension between himself and his 10 year old son.  His string of broken promises to be an available father is turned around when he discovers he has to return to Neverland to rescue his kidnapped son.  If he doesn’t earn his son’s trust back, both of them are doomed to a fate set before them by Captain Hook.