Category: Reading Recommendations

C. Otto Scharmer, Society for Organizational Learning, Cambridge, MA, 2007.


I’m ready to jump right into developing a coaching course around this book. This is the real thing. The vocabulary and the framework we’ve been groping around for over the past twenty years. You cannot even begin to think about leadership techniques until you’ve examined the inside of the leader him or herself. How do you gain objective awareness of one’s subjective processes? Unless you do, you’re flying blind. I can’t recommend making this effort more highly.

I have long critiqued those who try to “technique” their way to leadership effectiveness. Henry Cloud provides an accessible guide to closing any disconnect between your person and your performance. His helpful framework is firmly grounded in the complex realities that make up our working worlds. You will appreciate his six dimensions of characters with integrity: the ability to build trust, face reality, get results, solve problems, cause growth, and achieve meaning in life.