Welcome to the Book Club

By The Holdsworth Center
January 16, 2018

At The Holdsworth Center, we believe that the best leaders never stop learning. That’s why we are pleased to introduce The Holdsworth Center Book Club, a curated list of thought-provoking book recommendations to fuel discussion and inspiration. Each month, we will share our thoughts on titles from this list and beyond. Interested in receiving Book Club recommendations in your inbox? Sign up for email updates from The Holdsworth Center and let us know that you are interested in Learning Resources and Inspiration.

Book Title	Author
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way	Amanda Ripley
Teaming: How Organizations Learn	Amy C. Edmondson, Edgar H. Schein
The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers	Bill Conaty, Ram Charan
Mindset	Carol S. Dweck
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard	Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die	Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact	Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling	David F. Labaree
The Trouble with Ed Schools	David F. Labaree
Power Up: Transforming Organizations through Shared Leadership	David L. Bradford, Allan R. Cohen
Fifteen Letters on Education in Singapore: Reflections from a Visit to Singapore in 2015 by a Delegation of Educators from Massachusetts	Fernando M. Reimers, E. B. O’Donnell
When Performance Meets Alignment – A Compass For Coaching And Mentoring	Jan Ardui, Peter Wrycza
How Great Leaders Think: The Art of Reframing	Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be	Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools	Michael B. Horn & Heather Staker
Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes	Pak Tee Ng
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable	Patrick M. Lencioni
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization	Peter M. Senge
Strategy in Action: How School Systems Can Support Powerful Learning and Teaching	Rachel E. Curtis, Elizabeth A. City, Beverly L, Hall
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company	Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It	Richard V. Reeves
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis	Robert D. Putnam
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community	Robert D. Putnam, Don Cohen, Lewis M. Feldstein
A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service	Robert M Gates
End of Average	Todd Rose
Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything	Ulrich Boser

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