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'The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.'
- Lao Tzu
Work we love
When it comes to how to transform lives and organisations there are thousands of libraries and a whole internet to consult, the material is endless. But here is a selection for you of things that we love. See it as inspiration, maybe as instruction. Hope you find it useful.
Reading: Philosophy / Fiction / Non-Fiction
Maya Angelou - I know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Don Beck & Christopher Cowan - Spiral Dynamics, Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Robert Bly - The Kabir Book
Richard Branson - Screw it, Let’s do it
Teilhard de Chardin - Hymn of the Universe
Stephen Covey, Roger Merrill & Rebecca Merrill - First Things First
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Rhizome
Hale Dwoskin - The Sedona Method
Reshad Feild - The Last Barrier
Viktor E Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning
M.K. Gandhi - Non-Violent Resistance
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence & Primal Leadership
Robert K. Greenleaf - Servant Leadership
Dag Hammarskjold - Waymarks
Herman Hesse - Siddharta
Etty Hillesum - Autobiographical An Interrupted Life 1941-1943
William Issacs - Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together
Gerald Jampolsky - Love is Letting go of Fear
Joseph Jaworski - Synchronicity
Tony Judt - Il Fares the Land
Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Daniel Ladinsky - Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Nelson Mandela - Walk to Freedom
Daniel Ofman - Core Qualities: A Gateway to Human Resources
Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The Call
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Robert Pirsig - Lila
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Rainer Maria Rilke - Songs to Orpheus
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent communication
Rumi: Hidden Music - Maryam Mafim
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Kathryn Stockkett - The Help
Rabindranath Tagore - Tagore A Testament
Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy - Catch the Fire
Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth
David Whyte - The Heart Aroused
Ken Wilber - The Marriage of Sense and Soul
Marianne Williamson - A Return to Love & The Law of Divine Compensation
Online Videos
Amy Cuddy - YOUR BODY LANGUAGE SHAPES WHO YOU ARE
Brene Brown - THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY
Charlie Chaplin - THE GREATEST SPEECH EVER MADE
The legend of Bagger Vance – THE FIELD
Malala Yousafzai AT THE UN
Team Hoyt – CAN
The power of emplathy – RSA ANIMATE
Drew Dudley - LEADING WITH LOLLIPOPS
Jill Bolte Taylor - POWERFUL STROKE OF INSIGHT
Chimananda Adichie - THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY
Oprah Winfrey - STANFORD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS 2008
JK Rowling - THE FRINGE BENEFITS OF FAILURE
Derek Sivers – HOW TO START A MOVEMENT
Shane Koyczan - FOR THE BULLIED & BEAUTIFUL
Steve Jobs - STANFORD COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS 2005
Louie Schwartzberg - GRATITUDE
MY PHILOSOPHY FOR A HAPPY LIFE