Recommended Reading

For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness.

Deemed “the dean of leadership gurus” by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born—they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it, his classic work On Becoming a Leader has served as a source of essential insight for countless readers.

Gardner asserts that the most critical problem challenging the U. S. today is its lack of leadership. He proposes and supports with excellent illustrations his theories on leadership that go beyond charisma to heightened motivation, trust, confidence, and shared values on the part of those in charge and their followers.

Dov Seidman captures the power that Ray Kroc instilled in us at McDonald's from the day he opened his first restaurant in 1955—a culture based on values puts the customer first. In today's world, focusing on the 'how' is critical to accelerating momentum. HOW is required reading for anyone seeking enduring success in business or life.

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.

Helping top executives answer the difficult questions about performance, leadership, relationships, and success has taught Cox a lot about what it takes to master the top job.

An amusing account of an English couple's first year as residents of rural Provence, from the unpleasantness of the winter mistral to the transgressions of summer tourists. Since the old farmhouse they purchased needed repairs, they were immediately beset with problems in dealing with the foibles of local craftspeople and officialdom, not to mention the neighbors--human and animal.

Anna Karenina is a brilliantly conceived and poignantly written novel. Using many dynamic and well developed characters, Tolstoy unravels a marvelous tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of late nineteenth century fashionable russian society.

If you were going to die, and had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? For Professor Randy Pausch, this wasn't a hypothetical question. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he only had months to live when he gave his Last Lecture. It was the lecture of a lifetime.

Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder and rebirth of man's spirit.