OVERVIEW
While every coaching relationship is unique, a number of themes come up repeatedly in my practice, and over the years I’ve written about many of them. After a coaching session I’ll often refer a client or student to one of the posts below for further reading.
Because the primary purpose of this page is to help me access specific readings, it’s generally alphabetized by title, but it also includes two sub-sections in which readings are grouped by topic area:
I’ve also created stand-alone compilations of resources on other pages that cover areas I address frequently in my work:
- 20 Tools for Coaching and Teaching
- A Power and Influence Primer
- Coaching and Feedback Tools for Leaders
- Interpersonal Dynamics (my former Stanford course archive)
- Startup Leadership
- The Art of Self-Coaching (my current Stanford course archive)
In addition to my own writing, I’ve included a list of other resources below that I’ve found particularly valuable, which includes several sub-sections in which readings are grouped by topic area:
- Anxiety
- Change
- Choice and Constraints
- Culture
- Explanatory Style
- Gender
- Influence
- Innovation
- Intuition and Decision-Making
- Mortality
- Negotiation
- OKRs
- Psychological Safety
- Relationships
- Sales Leadership
- Scaling Up
- Sleep
- Storytelling
Finally, while this page focuses primarily on posts and articles, I also maintain a reading list of books that have had an impact on my professional or personal development which is organized by topics such as Communication or Neuroscience & Psychology.
MY POSTS
A Checklist for Someone About to Take on a Tougher Job
Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety
Antonio Damasio on Emotion and Reason
Are You in the First Half…Or the Second Half?
Babies, Bathwater and Goal-Setting
Aim High…Enough (Self-Coaching and Goal-Setting)
Blocking and Tackling (Fundamentals of Change)
Bosses and Birthdays (The Importance of Small Talk)
Brass Rings and Railroad Tracks (On Self-Validation)
Brené Brown, Vulnerability, Empathy and Leadership
Building a Feedback-Rich Culture
Building a Feedback-Rich Culture from the Middle
Caregiving and Stress Management
Coaching and Feedback Tools for Leaders
https://hbr.org/webinar/2014/09/coaching-your-employees
Click to access Coaching-Your-Employees-Ed-Batista-HBR-Webinar-Summary.pdf
HBR Guide to Coaching Employees
https://www.edbatista.com/2015/06/comfort-with-discomfort
Conflict Modes and Managerial Styles
Conscious Competence in Practice
David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water”
David Rock on Neuroscience, Leadership and the SCARF Model
Derek Sivers on Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Developing Your Professional Vision
Don’t Build a Castle, Put Up 1,000 Tents
Don’t Inflict Help, Provide It
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There! (Mindfulness for Busy People)
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There! (Mindfulness for Busy People)
Doug Sundheim on Taking Smart Risks
Early Stage Survival and Later Stage Success
Emotional Mountaineering (The Three Tasks of Coaching)
Erin Meyer on Culture and Communication
One Reason Cross-Cultural Small Talk Is So Tricky (Erin Meyer)
https://hbr.org/2014/05/one-reason-cross-cultural-small-talk-is-so-tricky
Geert Hofstede on the Dimensions of Cultural Difference
Experiential Learning Revisited
Make Getting Feedback Less Stressful
https://hbr.org/webinar/2015/03/make-getting-feedback-less-stressful
Click to access Make-Getting-Feedback-Less-Stressful-Ed-Batista-Webinary-Summary.pdf
HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback
Gary Klein on the Elements of Intention
Get Moving! (Exercise for Busy People)
Growth, Profitability and Return on Attention
http://www.edbatista.com/2015/02/return-on-attention.html
Hammering Screws (Bad Coaching)
Happy Workaholics Need Boundaries, Not Balance
How Great Coaches Ask, Listen and Empathize
How Leaders Create Safety (and Danger)
How Not to Fight with Your Spouse When You Get Home from Work
How to Feed a Monster (Leading in Elite Organizations)
How to Fight a Fire (Self-Coaching in a Crisis)
How to Find (and Choose) a Coach
How to Scale: Do Less, Lead More
How to Think (More on Open Space and Deep Work)
Huddle Up! (Building Group Cohesion)
Human Velcro (Hooks and Loops)
Ignoring Bandits and Building Resilience
In Defense of Normal (A Coaching Manifesto)
Joel Peterson on Organizational Culture
Joel Peterson’s Last Lecture, 15 Years Later
John Gottman on Successful Relationships
Video: Making Relationships Work, Part 1 (John Gottman)
Jonathan Knee on Sales, Analysis and Operations
https://www.edbatista.com/2008/04/jonathan-knee-o.html
https://www.edbatista.com/2018/
Leadership and the Double Bind
Leadership as a Performing Art
Leadership as Professional Practice
Leadership, Decision-Making and Emotion Management
Learning to Say “No” Is Part of Success
Learning to Yield (Navigating Tough Conversations)
Let Your Freak Flag Fly: David Rendall on Uniqueness
List-Price vs. Haggling (Culture, Compensation and Negotiation)
Low-Carb High-Fat (LCHF) Resources
Lyubomirsky’s Person-Activity Fit Diagnostic
Marcus Aurelius, 3,000 Years, and the Present Moment
McClelland and Burnham on Power and Management
Neuroscience, Joyful Learning and the SCARF Model
On Firing A Senior Team Member
Open Space, Deep Work and Self-Care
Pain, Suffering and Hedonic Adaptation
Pasta Shapes (Stupid Fights and How to Stop Them)
Pema Chödrön on Being Thrown Out of the Nest
Peter Drucker on Excellence, Careers and Planning
Racing Up the Ladder of Inference
Risk Management (The Importance of Speaking Up)
Scott Ginsberg on Asking (Better) Questions
Seeing What’s Not There (The Importance of Missing Data)
Self-Monitoring and Authenticity
Seneca on the Importance of Rest and Relaxation
Setting the Table (Difficult Conversations)
Show Me Your Calendar and I’ll Show You What You Value
Spiral Learning and Flow States
Stagefright and Public Speaking
Startup Leadership 1: Are We Video-Gaming or Ditch-Digging?
Startup Leadership 2: Are We Rowing or Rafting?
Startup Leadership 3: A Greater Us
Stop Providing Too Much Information
Stop Trying to Be “Good Enough” by “Getting Better”
Stop Worrying About Making the Right Decision
Surviving in a Toxic (or Merely Dysfunctional) Culture
Taking the Leap (Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty)
Taking the Plunge (Safety, Risk, Learning, and Growth)
The Accumulation of Cultural Debt
The Art of Saying a Professional Goodbye
The Big Picture (Self-Coaching, Values and Vision)
The Blue Problem (Communication and Power)
The Cognitive Dissonance of the CEO
The Difficulty of Empathizing Up
The Dip: Seth Godin on Strategic Quitting
The Importance of Slowing Down
The Importance of Yellow Lights
The Inner Game of Work: Who Are You Working For?
The Layer Cake of Working Life
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
The Most Productive People Know Who to Ignore
The Problem with Anonymous Feedback
The Problem with Positive Feedback
The Six Layers of Knowledge and Better Conversations
The Toyota Production System Works for Relationships, Too
The Trium Group on Responsibility
The way you are now is the way you are loved
Think Small (The Value of Micro-Goals)
Three More Horsemen (How We Self-Sabotage)
Three Paradoxes (Another Coaching Manifesto)
Tiny Gestures (and Emotional Bids)
Tips on Coaching Someone Remotely
To Stay Focused, Manage Your Emotions
Underdoing It and Overdoing It (Assertiveness Over Time)
Understanding “The Pie Chart” in The How of Happiness
VIA Survey of Character Strengths
Viktor Frankl on Love, Suffering and the Meaning of Life
Voltaire and Patton on Perfection
Watch That Next Step (CEO Problems)
We’re Leaky (Emotional Signals and Cognitive Dissonance)
What I Learned in the Hospital this Weekend
http://www.edbatista.com/2017/04/what-i-learned-in-the-hospital-this-weekend.html
What Took You So Long? by Sheldon Kopp
White Bears and Car Crashes (Thinking About Thinking)
William Bridges on Transitions
https://www.behaviormodel.org/
“Work Hard or Work Smart?” Is the Wrong Question
You Make Me Feel… (On Language and Responsibility)
You’re Not Multi-Tasking, You’re Half-Assing
Zinedane Zidane and Authenticity
A Survival Guide for Leaders (Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky)
https://hbr.org/2002/06/a-survival-guide-for-leaders
Adam Grant on Networking Is (Unintentionally) Misleading (Jeff Pfeffer)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/adam-grant-networking-unintentionally-misleading-jeffrey-pfeffer/
When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness (Brad Stulberg)
Dealing With Anxiety: Exploring the Patterns that Fuel the Anxious Process (Sarah Sarkis)
Dealing With Anxiety: Exploring the Patterns that Fuel the Anxious Process
Why Anxiety Is So Persuasive–and Pervasive (Sharon Salzberg)
The Worry Cure (Robert Leahy)
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being (Linda Graham)
Bad Is Stronger Than Good [PDF] (Roy Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer and Kathleen Vohs)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/973401258542313472.html
Becoming Attached [PDF] (Robert Karen)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1990/02/becoming-attached/308966/
Building the Civilized Workplace (Bob Sutton)
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace (Bob Sutton)
Building The Emotional Intelligence of Groups (Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven Wolff)
https://hbr.org/2001/03/building-the-emotional-intelligence-of-groups
Building Your Company’s Vision [$] (Jim Collins and Jerry Porras)
https://hbr.org/1996/09/building-your-companys-vision
Buy Experiences, Not Things (James Hamblin)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/buy-experiences/381132/
Anticipating Experience-Based Purchases More Enjoyable Than Material Ones
How Your Identity Changes When You Change Jobs (Herminia Ibarra interviewed by Sarah Green Carmichael)
https://hbr.org/ideacast/2018/11/how-your-identity-changes-when-you-change-jobs
More Isn’t Always Better (Barry Schwartz)
https://hbr.org/2006/06/more-isnt-always-better
Is the famous ‘paradox of choice’ a myth? (Barry Schwartz)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/is-the-famous-paradox-of-choic
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)
https://hbr.org/2012/08/the-disciplined-pursuit-of-less
Connect, Then Lead (Amy Cuddy, Matthew Kohut and John Neffinger)
https://hbr.org/2013/07/connect-then-lead
Crucibles of Leadership (Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas)
https://hbr.org/2002/09/crucibles-of-leadership
10 Principles of Organizational Culture (Jon Katzenbach, Carolin Oelschlegel and James Thomas)
https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/10-Principles-of-Organizational-Culture
Double Loop Learning in Organizations (Chris Argyris)
https://hbr.org/1977/09/double-loop-learning-in-organizations
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen)
Chapter 5: Have Your Feelings or They Will Have You
What Are Attributional and Explanatory Styles in Psychology? (Elaine Houston, Positive Psychology, 2019)
https://positivepsychology.com/explanatory-styles-optimism/
Learned Helplessness: Seligman’s Theory of Depression (+ Cure) (Courtney Ackerman, Positive Psychology, 2018)
https://positivepsychology.com/learned-helplessness-seligman-theory-depression-cure/
Explanatory Styles and Their Role in Stress (Elizabeth Scott, VeryWellMind, 2018)
https://www.verywellmind.com/about-explanatory-styles-3145110
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives (Maria Popova)
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
Gender, Confidence and Perception
The Confidence Gap (Katty Kay and Claire Shipman)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/
Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth? (Laura Guillen)
https://hbr.org/2018/03/is-
The Gender Gap in Feedback and Self-Perception (Margarita Mayo)
https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-gender-gap-in-feedback-and-self-perception
Can Women be Strong Leaders Without Being Labeled “Bossy?” (Bill Snyder, on research by Larissa Tiedens)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/can-women-be-strong-leaders-without-being-labeled-bossy
Women Need to Realize Work Isn’t School (Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr, Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2013/01/women-
People can find the piece above frustrating because it doesn’t address sexism and gender bias, and yet when we can’t immediately make structural changes I think it offers a useful roadmap to potential action.
Gender and Negotiation
There’s an ample body of research that attributes compensation gaps to women’s negotiation styles, e.g.:
Women and Negotiation: Narrowing the Gender Gap in Negotiation (Katie Shonk, Harvard Law Program on Negotiation)
https://www.pon.harvard.edu/
But there’s also research that urges us to view compensation gaps as a by-product of institutional secrecy rather than women’s inadequacy as negotiators, e.g.:
Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement (Maria Recalde & Lise Vesterlund, NBER)
https://www.nber.org/papers/
The paper above is discussed in the article below:
Women’s Negotiating Style is Not Responsible for the Gender Pay Gap (Arianne Cohen, Rate.com)
https://www.rate.com/research/
Gender and Masculinity
Who Needs Men? (Barbara Ehrenreich and Lionel Tiger, Harper’s Magazine) [PDF]
Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity (Michael Kimmel) [PDF]
The Study of Man (Or Males) (Charles McGrath)
Goodhart’s Law: On measurements, goals, and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase (Noah Brier, Why Is This Interesting?)
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-goodharts
How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours–and Why That Matters for Your Health (Lieke ten Brummelhuis and Nancy Rothbard)
How I Built My Coaching Practice (Anamaria Nino-Murcia)
How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)
How to Express Empathy–Avoid the Traps! (Michael Sahota)
https://agilitrix.com/2013/01/how-to-express-empathy-avoid-the-traps/
If You Want Something, Ask For It (Marguerite Rigoglioso, on research by Frank Flynn on asking for help)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/francis-flynn-if-you-want-something-ask-it
Harnessing the Science of Persuasion [$] (Robert Cialdini)
https://hbr.org/2001/10/harnessing-the-science-of-persuasion
The Language of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini)
https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-language-of-persuasion.html
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini)
The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence (Robert Cialdini)
https://hbr.org/2013/07/the-uses-and-abuses-of-influence
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin and Robert Cialdini
Where Good Ideas Come From (Steven Johnson, TED 2010)
https://www.ted.com/talks/
How Innovation Works (Matt Ridley & Naval Ravikant, 2020)
Slow Ideas (Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 2013)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas
Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut? (Interview with Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein)
Conditions for Intuitive Expertise (Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein)
Click to access conditions-for-intuitive-expertise-kahneman-klein.pdf
The Ultimate Guide to Making Smart Decisions (Shane Parrish)
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (Shane Parrish)
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
Creating a Decision Journal (Shane Parrish)
https://fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/
Michael Mauboussin: Two Tips to Improve The Quality of Your Decisions (Shane Parrish)
https://fs.blog/2012/09/how-to-improve-the-quality-of-our-decision-making/
Don’t Overthink It (Agnes Callard, Boston Review, 2019)
https://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/agnes-callard-dont-overthink-it
Learned Helplessness (Courtney Ackerman)
https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/learned-helplessness/
Lessons from Meditating with the Dalai Lama (Sanjay Gupta)
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/health/sanjay-gupta-dalai-lama-meditation/index.html
Managing Authenticity (Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones)
https://hbr.org/2005/12/managing-authenticity-the-paradox-of-great-leadership
Managing with the Brain in Mind (David Rock)
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/09306
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness (Emily Esfahani Smith)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/meaning-is-healthier-than-happiness/278250/
BOOKS AND ESSAYS
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Katy Butler, 2019)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Atul Gawande)
The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
Dying: A Memoir (Cory Taylor)
Gratitude (Oliver Sacks, 2015)
How to prepare yourself for a good end of life (Katy Butler, San Francisco Chronicle, 2019
Mortality (Christopher Hitchens)
The Red Hand Files, Issue #6 (Nick Cave)
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/communication-dream-feeling/
Sheryl Sandberg, UC Berkeley Commencement (2016)
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (Katie Roiphe)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X
Why Mortality Makes Us Free (Martin Hägglund, The New York Times, 2019)
POETRY
“Aubade” (Philip Larkin)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07
“For the Anniversary of My Death” (W.S. Merwin)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43118/for-the-anniversary-of-my-death
RELATED POSTS OF MINE
Gualala (On Mortality and Gratitude)
Marcus Aurelius, 3,000 Years, and the Present Moment
Name the Dilemma (Anamaria Nino-Murcia)
https://www.anamaria.coach/feedback/name-the-dilemma
Nancy Duarte on Presenting and Storytelling
https://hbr.org/2012/10/structure-your-presentation-li
Illuminate: https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Duarte/e/B002BMAA0K/
TED talk on what makes an effective TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
Emotion and the Art of Negotiation (Alison Wood Brooks)
https://hbr.org/2015/12/emotion-and-the-art-of-negotiation
How to Negotiate Better (Jeff Weiss, interviewed by Sarah Green)
https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/01/how-to-negotiate-better.html
How to Negotiate with Someone More Powerful Than You (Carolyn O’Hara)
https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-negotiate-with-someone-more-powerful-than-you
Never Have an Unproductive Day Again with This Simple Hack (Nir Eyal and James Clear)
https://heleo.com/conversation-never-have-an-unproductive-day-again-with-this-simple-hack/15013/
The Art of the OKR, Redux (Christina Wodtke, ElegantHack, 2020)
The Art of the OKR (Christina Wodtke, ElegantHack, 2014)
Introduction to OKRs (Christina Wodtke, 2016)
https://www.oreilly.com/content/introduction-to-okrs/
Radical Focus (Christina Wodtke)
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Focus-Achieving-Important-Objectives/dp/0996006052/ (1st edition, 2015)
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Focus-SECOND-Achieving-Objectives-dp-1955469016/dp/1955469016/ (2nd edition, 2021)
Are You Sure You Want to Use OKRs? (Christina Wodtke, 2022)
Related Readings (Christina Wodtke)
https://eleganthack.com/category/high-performing-teams/okrs-2/
Peak Performance (Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness)
https://www.edbatista.com/2017/09/peak-performance.html
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t (Jeff Pfeffer)
Make Your Employees Feel Psychologically Safe (Martha Lagace interviewing Amy Edmondson, HBS Working Knowledge, 2018)
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/make-your-employees-psychologically-safe
(The best introduction to Edmondson’s work.)
How Fearless Organizations Succeed (Amy Edmondson, strategy+business, 2018)
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-Fearless-Organizations-Succeed?gko=fdfc6
(A deeper dive, excerpted from her book.)
How Leaders Create Safety (and Danger)
Radical Acceptance (Tara Brach)
John Gottman on Successful Relationships
The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling (Ellie Lisitsa)
The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
The Four Horsemen: The Antidotes (Ellie Lisitsa)
4 Marriage Myths That Cause Divorce (Kyle Benson)
Video: Making Relationships Work, Part 1 (John Gottman)
Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff)
Self-Talk
How to Talk Yourself Into Better Endurance (Alex Hutchinson)
The best salespeople don’t make the best managers (Alex Verkhivker)
https://review.chicagobooth.edu/strategy/2017/article/best-salespeople-don-t-make-best-managers
Why great salespeople make terrible managers (Steli Efti)
https://blog.close.com/great-salespeople-bad-managers
Eight Essentials for Scaling up Without Screwing Up (Bob Sutton)
https://hbr.org/2014/02/eight-essentials-for-scaling-up-without-screwing-up
Bad to Great: The Path to Scaling Up Excellence (Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao)
How Do You Scale Excellence? (Interview with Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/hayagreeva-rao-robert-sutton-how-do-you-scale-excellence
Scaling Up Excellence (Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao)
How to Scale: Do Less, Lead More
Shop Class As Soulcraft (Matthew Crawford)
2006 essay in The New Atlantis
Great Leaders Sleep Well–Why Rest is Critical For Success (Ronni Hendel-Giller)
There’s a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep (Nick van Dam and Els van der Helm)
https://hbr.org/2016/02/theres-a-proven-link-between-effective-leadership-and-getting-enough-sleep
Relax, Turn Off Your Phone, and Go To Sleep (Larry Rosen)
https://hbr.org/2015/08/research-shows-how-anxiety-and-technology-are-affecting-our-sleep
You Can’t Do Your Job if You Don’t Sleep (Tony Schwartz)
https://hbr.org/2012/07/the-secret-to-high-performance
Sleep Is More Important Than Food (Tony Schwartz)
https://hbr.org/2011/03/sleep-is-more-important-than-f
Sleep-Deprived Leaders are Less Inspiring (Christopher Barnes)
https://hbr.org/2016/06/research-sleep-deprived-leaders-are-less-inspiring
Senior Leaders Get More Sleep Than Anyone Else (Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter)
https://hbr.org/2018/02/senior-executives-get-more-sleep-than-everyone-else
Software Estimation in the Fractal Dimension (Stuart Rimell)
https://codeburst.io/software-estimation-in-the-fractal-dimension-914569e2ccb9
Nancy Duarte
Structure Your Presentation Like a Story
The Secret Structure of Great Talks [18 min video]
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences
Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols (with Patti Sanchez)
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Douglas Patton and Sheila Heen)
Chapter 1: Three Triggers That Block Feedback
The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact (Robyn Scott, 2016)
The Authenticity Paradox (Herminia Ibarra)
https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-authenticity-paradox
The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness. (Billy Baker)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)
https://hbr.org/2012/08/the-disciplined-pursuit-of-less
The Leader’s Calendar
How CEOs Manage Time (Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria
https://hbr.org/2018/07/the-leaders-calendar#how-ceos-manage-time
What Do CEOs Actually Do? (Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria)
https://hbr.org/2018/07/the-leaders-calendar#what-do-ceos-actually-do
One CEO’s Approach to Managing His Calendar (Daniel McGinn and Sarah Higgins)
The Midlife Crisis (Kieran Setiya)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0014.031/1/–midlife-crisis?
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Kieran Setiya)
The Myth of Sisyphus [PDF, pages 119-123] (Albert Camus)
The Neuroscience of Regret (Melanie Greenberg)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201206/the-neuroscience-regret
The Stockdale Paradox (Jim Collins)
https://www.jimcollins.com/media_topics/TheStockdaleParadox.html
Things I wish I knew as a first-time manager (Dan Slate)
https://magazine.vunela.com/things-i-wish-i-knew-as-a-first-time-manager-58ec0ef141bc
Three Stages of Expertise (Simon Wardley)
https://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/three-stages-of-expertise.html
To fight the winter blues, try a dose of nature (Florence Williams)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-fight-the-winter-blues-try-a-dose-of-nature-1485540954
Touchy Feely NBA Teams More Likely to Win (Stephanie Pappas)
https://www.livescience.com/11091-touchy-feely-nba-teams-win.html
Walking lifts your mood, even when you don’t expect it to (Christian Jarrett)
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/10/21/walking-lifts-your-mood-even-when-you-dont-expect-it-to/
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means (Carol Dweck)
https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means
What Fitbit’s 6 billion nights of sleep data reveals about us (David Pogue)
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (Robert Waldinger)
What Makes a Leader? (Daniel Goleman)
https://hbr.org/2004/01/what-makes-a-leader
What Makes an Effective Executive (Peter Drucker)
https://hbr.org/2004/06/what-makes-an-effective-executive
This article is the preface to the 2004 edition of the 1967 book:
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Peter Drucker)
A series of excerpts from the book:
Part 1: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974111270390530048.html?refreshed=yes
Part 2: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974510140094169088.html?refreshed=yes
Part 3: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974517753540300800.html?refreshed=yes
When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness (Brad Stulberg)
When you don’t like what you feel: Experiential avoidance, mindfulness
and meta-emotion in emotion regulation (Horst Mitmansgruber, Thomas N. Beck, Stefan Höfer and Gerhard Schüßler)
Personality and Individual Differences 46 (2009) 448–453
Why It Pays to Be a Jerk (Jerry Useem)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/why-it-pays-to-be-a-jerk/392066/
Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? (Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones)
https://hbr.org/2000/09/why-should-anyone-be-led-by-you
Also: https://www.edbatista.com/2016/12/why-should-anyone-be-led-by-you.html
Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing It) (Jennifer Porter)
https://hbr.org/2017/03/why-you-should-make-time-for-self-reflection-even-if-you-hate-doing-it
Working the Weekly 1:1 (Christina Wodtke)
You Took an Emotional Risk, Now What? (Elizabeth Bernstein)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-took-an-emotional-risk-now-what-1478536377
HABIT-TRACKING TOOLS
https://dontbreakthechain.com/
BAR PREP RESOURCES FOR JD/MBAs
The Anxious Lawyer / Guided Meditations (Jeena Cho)
https://theanxiouslawyer.com/category/guided-meditations/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/romila-adr-romiea-mushtaq-md/3-mindful-steps-to-surviv_b_7839746.html
https://ms-jd.org/blog/search/search&keywords=%22bar+exam%22&category=/
Photo by Loren Kerns.
Updated July 2018.