Bibliography

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

This list is a personal list of some books that we view as important, influential or just worth a read; it is not exhaustive and changes from time to time.

Coaching & Psychology

Title	Authors
Co-active Coaching	Kimsey-House et al. 2011	The starting point for Co-active Coaches.
Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds	Sullivan and Rees, 2008	How to ask powerful questions and get insights without leading your subject.
Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman, 1996	The original text at the heart of much of our work in coaching and in the foundations of the ORSC methodology.
The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success	Stein and Book, 2011	A supporting text for those wanting to know more and work on their EQi.
Thinking, fast and slow	Daniel Kahneman, 2011	A fascinating insight into how we think and why we should and shouldn’t use our intuition.

Leadership & Business

Title	Authors
Churchill: A biography	Roy Jenkins, 2002	Far more powerful and insightful than the “what I did” autobiographies of many business leaders. With themes including resilience, courage, passion, preparation, independence, communication, relationships and failure there are lessons here for all leaders.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen Covey, 2004	Still contains sound advice and most people will identify where they could make improvements in themselves.
The First 90 Days	Michael Watkins, 2013	The manual for hitting the ground running in a new role.
The Secrets of Success at Work	Richard Hall, 2008	Written by my first coach, this book contains many pearls of wisdom (as long as you can overlook him quoting Fred Goodwin).
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business	Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, 2012	The masters of rigorous but readable works on working across cultures.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything	Levitt and Dubner, 2007	Along with their follow-up Superfreakonomics (2010) they explain why the obvious or common sense answer is quite often wrong and teach you to think of things in a different way.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few	James Surrowiecki, 2010	For those of us who believe in the power of the group or team, evidence that we are right!

Interesting and Inspiring

Title	Authors
A Time of Gifts / Between the Woods and the Water	Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1977 / 1986	Telling the fascinating story of what must be one of the earliest “gap years” when Patrick walked across Europe in 1931. Whilst he starts sleeping rough or in cheap inns; as he crosses a lost Europe he ends up staying in castles and mixing with the local aristocracy.
Germania / Danubia	Simon Winder, 2010 / 2013	An easy an entertaining way to learn more about the history of these parts of Europe that English education barely skims.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance	Robert Prisig, 1974	An introduction to the subject of Total Quality Management via a philosophical novel, you either love it or hate it!
Stan the Man – Stan Bowles autobiography	Stan Bowles (plus unnamed ghost writer no doubt), 1996	For QPR fans there is not much in our history to cheer us up, but knowing that the best football autobiography ever written came from our Stan is something.
Almost anything and everything by John Updike and Charles Dickens!