
Recommended Books
This resource list of books allows you to click through to purchase or find out more information about those books that interest you. Through a partner relationship with Powell's Books, Hosfeld & Associates does receive a commission for any sale of the book that results from your clickthrough. We have chosen Powell's as our partner in part due to our support of privately held business. They also have a great inventory of used and out-of-print books. We donate 10% of income generated by these sales to Northwest Harvest and PAWS.
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New Entrepreneur's Toolkit Growing Through Strategy High Leverage Marketing Tools Soul and Spirit at Work Profitable Sustainability, Entrepreneurship Organizations that Thrive Ethics, Values and Virtues Vocation Books by People We Know and Love
New Entrepreneur's Toolkit The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About Itby Michael E. Gerber This book will help you explore the question of why you want to start an organization, and how to make it successful from the beginning. The Alchemistby Paul Coehlo A fictional work, this book speaks to the importance of following your dreams, and a glimpse at what you'll encounter on the journey.
Growing Through Strategy Competing for the Futureby Hamel, Prahalad Written by Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad, this conveys two very useful strategy concepts: strategic intent and core competence. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitorsby Michael E Porter A landmark book, whose core concepts remain useful and relevant -- especially for those who want to deliver value to clients and customers. Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Tasks of the General Managerby Thompson and Strickland Read the fifth edition; I hope it continues to be updated. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of Moreby Chris Anderson This fascinating book highlights the emergence of the niche market as a more and more viable business model. It’s a radical reframe for those of us who grew up in a mass-media culture where the number of TV networks, radio stations and the shelf space in stores determined what we saw and purchased. Today, given the efficiencies of the Internet, many products and services flourish financially outside mainstream channels.
High Leverage Marketing Tools Selling With Integrity, Reinventing Sales Through Collaboration, Respect, and Servingby Sharon Drew Morgan This book emphasizes the importance of listening in the sales process. Marketing in the Soul Age: Building Lifestyle Worldsby Harvey Hartman As traditional segmentation methods become less helpful, the Hartman group provides a new way to understand "why they buy." Marketing That Mattersby Chip Conley, Eric Friedenwald-Fishman An excellent summarization of what comprises not just socially responsible marketing, but good marketing - period. Winning Clients in a Wired Worldby Kip Gregory Kip Gregory is a tireless cultivator of ideas and creativity, and a brilliant example of what one can achieve by following the call of vocation. Kip owns The Gregory Group, and partners with Hosfeld & Associates in service to shared clients. Attracting Perfect Customersby Stacey Hall Harness the power of clarity and focus to connect with the clients you truly want to work with and how you want to be of service to them.
Soul and Spirit at Work Work as Spiritual Practiceby Lewis Richmond
The Stirring of Soul in the Workplaceby Alan Briskin
The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Lifeby Eric Booth
Profitable Sustainability, Entrepreneurship Body and Soul: Profits with Principlesby Anita Roddick
The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and The Common Goodby Tom Chappell
Ben & Jerry’s Double Dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money Tooby Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolutionby Paul Dolan
What Matters Most: How A Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business is Listeningby Jeffery Hollender
Growing a Businessby Paul Hawken
Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Outby Jill Bamburg Our colleague Jill Bamburg, consultant and professor at the local Bainbridge Graduate Institute, based her book on intensive interviews with over 30 growth-oriented, mission-driven entrepreneurs whose stories demonstrate that it is possible for socially responsible businesses to grow and compete with what – sadly – are more conventional ones. Bamburg explodes the myths of scale from both ends of the spectrum, debunking the limiting “small is beautiful" approach as well as the “you have to sell out to grow" mandate (which can mean both literally or figuratively). The book provides a blueprint for entrepreneurs who want to grow their socially responsible business while remaining true to their principles.
Organizations that Thrive The Answer to How Is Yes, Acting on What Mattersby Peter Bloch
Leadership and the New Scienceby Margaret Wheatley
The Change Handbook: Group Methds for Creating the Futureby Peggy Holman, Tom Devane An excellent compendium of different change methodologies for use in organizations and communities. Gracious Space: A practical guide for working better togetherby Pat Hughes Describing both a philosophy and a tool for changing conversations, relationships and cultures, Gracious Space: A practical guide for working better together is a work of deceptive simplicity. Written by Center for Ethical Leadership Director of Curriculum Pat Hughes, Gracious Space is a 92-page monograph that explores the philosophy of Gracious Space and its applications to personal, organizational and community life. What makes this book so powerful is the understated delivery of a profound approach to reframing our view of ourselves and others in community. Positive Organizational Scholarshipby Cameron, Dutton and Quinn Highly academic but a foundational book in mapping the territory of what makes organizations self-renewing and resilient. Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Lifeby Alan Deutschman The title of the book reflects the way most people try to get others to change – by threat or coercion. The author, instead, lays out his theory of how successful change occurs. The first key to change is forming a relationship that gives us hope that change is possible. The second is using that relationship to practice new behaviors that create change. The third is to use the relationship to develop new ways of thinking to support the desired change. This book offers a positive life-giving model for organizations and individuals seeking change.
Ethics, Values and Virtues The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Timeby Matthew Fox
Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethicsby Robert Phillips A scholarly analysis of the argument for organizaitonal decision-making on the basis of how decisions affect broad stakeholders rather than profit alone.
Vocation The organizations we create or the work we choose can be our greatest teachers. They offer us the opportunity to live out our calling and values. These books speak to the challenges of vocation and authenticity in work. Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as A Pilgrimage of Identityby David Whyte
Let Your Life Speakby Parker Palmer
Original Self, Living With Paradox and Authenticityby Thomas Moore
The Soul’s Code, In Search of Character and Callingby James Hillman
Books by People We Know and Love The Muses Among Usby Kim Stafford Kim Stafford is a national treasure; I choose his workshops as my opportunities for spiritual renewal as a writer. His books are soul-nurturing gifts of beauty and grace. WordSuccess: Why and How to Express Yourself to the Good Lifeby Pete Geissler Pete Geissler is a highly regarded freelance writer and writing teacher, whose most recent book makes the case for how the ability to be articulate and persuasive enables individuals from all walks of life to achieve their goals and intentions.
You can purchase this book at www.qualitypress.asq.org The publisher is part of the American Society for Quality, an organization that promotes quality process management tools and technologies. Darol Anger Fiddle Tunesby Darol Anger The pasta recipe in this book of scores is a clue that this is more than a collection of original fiddle tunes by one of the most original musicians of our time. This book represents just one facet of a revolution that Darol and colleagues such as Mike Marshall, Béla Fleck, and Edgar Meyer are creating through innovative collaborations across musical boundaries.
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