We asked leaders from around Hilltop have shared their favorite books, articles, videos and podcasts. The resources are divided up into 2 categories: Leadership Development & Teamwork and Personal & Professional Development. ENJOY!

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

By Patrick Lencioni

Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams, even the best ones, often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.

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Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

By Patrick Lencioni

In “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidance for overcoming the Five Dysfunctions – using tools, exercies, assessments, and real world examples.

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Any book by Cy Wakeman

By Cy Wakeman

Cy Wakeman provides a no-nonsense approach to leadership.

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Better Conversations: A Starter Guide

By Krista Tippet

This guide is intended to help ground and animate a gethering of friends or strangers in a conversation that might take place over weeks or months.

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The Art of Conversation

By Squish

A guide to the principles of the art of conversation and mindsets through which you may approach its practice.

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The 5 Second Rule

By Mel Robbins

“The 5 Second Rule” is the secret to changing anything about your life. You can use the rule and its countdown method to break any bad habit, interrupt self-doubt and negative self-talk, and push yoursle fto take the actions that will change your life.

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Radical Candor

By Kim Scott

Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean helps leaders build strong relationships with their employees by finding the sweet spot between caring and honesty to elevate everyone on your team.

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Leading Without Authority

By Keith Ferrazzi

Ferrazzi draws on over a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams to show how we can all turn our colleagues and partners into teammates and truly reboot the way we work together.

Link to Amazon

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Overview

By The Productivity Game

Animated core message from Patrick Lencioni’s book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.”

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Reality Based Leadership Overview

By Cy Wakeman

60 minute video that shares the overview of the book by Cy Wakeman

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Radical Candor Video

Video by Kim Scott

Provides a short summary of the principles in Kim Scott’s book – to care personally and challenge directly so you can lead effectively.

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Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

TedTalk by Simon Sinek

What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests it’s someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety means taking on big responsibility.

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Empathy

By Simon Sinek

Trust and cooperation are not standard in our organizations and yet we know they should be. There are two attributes that every single leader has the opportunity to possess that will help them create the types of organizations we would be proud to call our own. Those two attributes are EMPATHY & PERSPECTIVE.

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Employee Engagement: Who's Sinking Your Boat?

By Bob Kelleher

This remake will define engagement and make a business case for engagement BUT will also provide a ‘call to action’ by introducing 8 key focus areas organizations need to focus on to keep employees ‘afloat’

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No Ego Podcast

By Cy Wakeman

No Ego, hosted by thought leader Cy Wakeman, will give you the tools you need as a leader to to ditch the drama, end entitlement, and drive big results in your workplace and your worldplace.

Link to iTunes / Spotify

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Brene Brown's Body of Work

By Brene Brown

Includes Books, TEDTalks, & Podcast

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Klemmer & Associates Body of Work

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“Our seminars and private corporate trainings dramatically increase results by exploring beliefs people do not realize they have around commitment, loyalty, communication, honesty, success, leadership and other key topics.”

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By Greg Mckeown

Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.

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Insight

By Tasha Eurich

Research shows that self-awareness—knowing who we are and how others see us—is the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. There’s just one problem: most people don’t see themselves quite as clearly as they could.

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Think and Grow Rich

By Napoleon Hill

While the book’s title and much of the text concerns increased income, the author insists that the philosophy taught in the book can help people succeed in any line of work, to do and be anything they can imagine.

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Digital Body Language

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By Erica Dhawan

Digital Body Language will turn your daily misunderstandings into a set of collectively understood laws that foster connection, no matter the distance. Dhawan investigates a wide array of exchanges―from large conferences and video meetings to daily emails, texts, IMs, and conference calls―and offers insights and solutions to build trust and clarity to anyone in our ever changing world.

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Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

By Susan David

Drawing on her deep research, decades of international consulting, and her own experience overcoming adversity after losing her father at a young age, David shows how anyone can thrive in an uncertain world by becoming more emotionally agile.

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Big Potential: Five Secrets of Reaching Higher by Powering Those Around You

By Shawn Achor

This book shows us that when we work to help others reach their potential, we exponentially elevate our own. 

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Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success

By Andy Andrews

Seven simple principles that – when applied consistently- render extraordinary lives. Through his entertaining, down-to-earth style, Andrews introduces these principles and offers all the tools necessary to make lasting changes in your life.

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our Success

By Adam Grant

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.

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The Happy Secret to Better Work

By Shawn Achor

This talk flips our assumptions upside down—that we don’t have to wait for something to change to be happy. That we can be happy NOW…and then things will change.

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The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage

TEDTalkBy Susan David

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness.

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Enneagram

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At its core, the Enneagram helps us to see ourselves at a deeper, more objective level and can be of invaluable assistance on our path to self-knowledge