A selection of favorite books and organizations.
"You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want, or they want much less than they deserve. First, you have to figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it."
Barbara De Angelis
Individual Change
Why you can't be anything you want to be (but you'll love being who you were designed to be)
- Arthur Miller
Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design - Laurence G. Boldt. This book contains some wonderful questions to help you connect to who you are and to articulate the work you wish to do.
The EQ Edge - Steven J Stein and Howard E. Book.
The EQ Edge is a well-organized book that presents MHS's 15 aspects of Emotional Intelligence.
We like this book because for each aspect of emotional intelligence, there are definitions, examples, and short and long term exercises you can do to have greater choice over how you react to events.
Working with Groups
Questions that Work: A Resource for Facilitators. (Ottawa: ST Press, 2001)
- Dorothy Strachan.
Contains good questions to to help move individuals or groups through a process.
The Answer to How is Yes - Peter Block.
Amazing.
Peter asks: What question, if you had the answer to it, would set you free?
Human Interface Design
The Human Factor - Kim Vicente.
Also Amazing.