At PMP our specialty is delivering time-tested principles for effective leadership, management and coaching to our client partners in a way that evokes action, enables personal growth and produces measurable results in their businesses. Over the course of the last 15 years we have assembled many articles and books on subjects that either enhance our work or serve as foundational concepts in it.
We are happy to share the following articles with you. Simply click on a link below that is of interest and you will be taken to the site where the article resides. Some of them are lengthy, so you might consider printing them for reading later.
Reading Room Links
Budget Crisis Requires Bold Action
Budget Crisis requires Bold Action(.pdf)
One day, seeing a mental health practitioner will be as common as going to a personal trainer.
Personal growth culture fosters recovery(.pdf)
Leading Healthcare Integration A Change Leadership Guide for Mental Health and Primary Care Services Integration
Leading Healthcare Integration(.pdf)
Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home
Initial_Lessons_Learned_Patient_Centered_Medical_Home (.pdf)
Diversity, Beyond the Jargon; An article written for The National Council Magazine
Diversity Beyond the Jargon (.pdf)
Use complaints as an opportunity to create new possibilities.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/46/complain.html
Discover your goals for personal development.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/prsn_dev/prsn_dev.htm
Share your personal life vision with your coworkers.
http://atlanta.bcentral.com/atlanta/stories/1998/04/27/smallb1.html
http://www.humandimension.com.au/Lifeworks/Lifeworks-8-2001.html
Generate a unified mission for your organization.
http://www.tukkk.fi/
Identify the goal of your area of responsibility.
http://www.careerperfect.com/CareerPerfect/topicGoals.htm
Tips on creating consensus.
http://www.partnerwerks.com/
Honoring differences within teams.
http://www.partnerwerks.com/
Create alignment and synergy on your team.
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/h-articl/tb-basic.htm
http://www.bizbasics.com/html/effective_teamwork.html
Build supportive management to encourage achievement.
http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art6.html
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadmot.html
Form coaching relationships with your coworkers.
http://www.refresher.com/!threecs.html
Tips on effective Strategic Planning.
http://www.strategicfutures.com/articles/stratpln/stratpln.htm
Engender the future in others through inspiring leadership.
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/winter97/bennis.html
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/summer97/wheatley.html
Develop an environment of rewards and consequences.
http://www.refresher.com/!accountability.html
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/spring97/kelleher.html
Building trust.
http://www.bizmove.com/personnel/m4e.htm
http://www.franklincovey.com/foryou/articles/taproot.html
Use the creative tension model to move toward your vision.
http://www.kirkmcneill.com/vision_tip.html
Communication guidelines to enhance your leadership ability.
http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest102.html
Construct a culture of shared values to increase your team's chance of success.
http://jeritt.msu.edu/pdf/Bulletin1999vol10-4.pdf
http://www.fed.org/onlinemag/oct96/lead.html
Understanding and overcoming resistance.
http://www.strategicconnections.com/Resistance.htm
PMP's Favorite Books
Leadership/Management
"A Passion for Excellence", Tom Peters, 1985, Random House
"Built to Last" , Collins & Porras, 1994, Harper Business
"Corporate Culture & Performance" , John Kotter & James Heskett, 1992, Free Press
"Flight of the Buffalo" , James Belasco & Ralph Stayer, 1993, Warner Books
"Good to Great" , Jim Collins, 2001, Harper Business
"High Impact Learning" , Robert Brinkerhoff & Anne Apking, 2001, Perseus Publishing
"Leadership Is An Art" , Max DePree, 1989, Dell Publishing
"Leadership & The New Science" , Margaret Wheatley, 1992, Berrett-Koehler
"The Fifth Discipline" , Peter Senge, 1990, Doubleday/Currency
"The Gates of Fire", Steven Pressfield
Sales/Marketing
"Selling to VITO" , Anthony Parinello, 1994, Adams Media Corp.
"Spin Selling" , Neil Rackham, 1988, McGraw-Hill
Personal Growth
"How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work" , Robert Kegan & Lisa L. Lahey, 2001, Jossey-Bass
"Kinds Of Power" , James Hillman, 1995, Doubleday/Currency
"Learned Optimism" , Martin Seligman, 1991, A.A. Knopf
"Life Is A Contact Sport" , Ken Kragen, 1994, Morrow
"The Acorn Principle" , Jim Cathcart, 1998, St. Martin's Press
"The Path of Least Resistance" , Robert Fritz, 1989, Fawcett-Columbine
"The Road Less Traveled" , M. Scott Peck, MD, 1978, Simon & Schuster
"The Souls Code-In Search Of Character & Calling" , James Hillman, 1997, Doubleday/Currency
"The Professor and the Madman" , Simon Winchester, 1998, Harper Collins
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" , Richard Bach, 1970, Avon Books
"If You Meet the Buddha On The Road, Kill Him" , Sheldon Koop, 1972, Science & Behavior
"The Celestine Prophecy", James Redfield, 1993, Warner Books
