You’ve heard that old saying: so many books, so little time. How true! Often it is difficult to decide which books will offer the most value for your limited time resources. Bookends has been created to help you address this problem. In just one hour of ‘multi tasking time’ while you drive, jog, or clean your kitchen, you can take a pretty good tour of a book written for organizational leaders and HRD professionals. 

Bookends interviews feature books that have important messages about leadership, people management, relationships and organizational success. Our author interviews take you on a extensive walk-through of each featured book. This way you can preview the book before you purchase it and know you will be investing your time in the books you really want to read. You can even engage the authors on Linkedin to discuss their books further following each interview. Look for us in a Linkedin Group called Bookends: The Discussion and be sure to check the Resource Blog for additional resources related to each book.

Because of their outstanding quality and selections we will be primarily considering books published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.  Listening to these interviews, we suspect you will want to obtain your own copies to explore in greater depth the insights they contain.  To that end you may wish to access Berrett-Koehler Publishers’ website.  You may wish to purchase the book, read it, and then be part of the live conversation.  Otherwise, these podcast can serve to introduce the themes and authors.

Throughout 2011, our emphasis will be on books that help us understand quality Leadership issues.  Become introduced to :

1. Leaders as Teachers by Ed Betof
   

2. Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline by Dan Tobin
   

3. Boodstrap Leadership by Steve Arneson
   

4. 8 Dimensions of Leadership by Sugerman, Scullard & Wilhelm
   

5. The Silent Language of Leaders by Carol Goman
   

6. Leadership Wisdom of Jesus by Charles Manz
   

7. and others
   

During 2010 the theme were Books that Transform us, our relationships, and our organizations.  You are welcome to review how we explored:

1. The Power of Appreciate Inquiry by Diane Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom
   

2. Getting to Resolution by Stewart Lavine
   

3. The Compromise Trap by Elizabeth Doty
   

4. Be The Hero by Noah Blumenthal
   

5. Live in more than one World by Bruce Rosenstein
   

6. The World Cafe by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
   

7. Don’t just do something stand there by Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff
   

8. Breakdown-Breakthrough by Kathy Caprino
   

9. Inner work of work (3rd edition) by Michael Baroff
   

10. Change your questions Change your life by Marilee Adams
    

11. Terms of Engagement (new edition) by Dick Axelrod
    

12. Glow by Lynda Gratton
    

13. Effective Apology by John Kador
    

14. Leading in Turbulent Times by Kevin Kelly & Gary Hayef
    

Employee Engagement was the theme in 2009. Revisit conversations about:

1. Community by Peter Block
   

2. Positive Leadership by Kim Cameron
   

3. How to Engage People When You Don’t Have Time by Dick Axelrod
   

4. Closing the Engagement Gap by Julie Gebauer and Don Lowman
   

5. Engaging the Hearts and Minds of Employees by Lee Colan
   

6. Fired Up or Burned Out by Michael Lee Stallard
   

7. Real Time Strategic Change by Robert Jacob
   

8. Authentic Conversations by Jamie Showkeir and Maren Showkeir
   

9. The Courageous Follower by Ira Chaleff