Recommended Reading List
Selected by Dr. John Davidoff, Founder & Chief Mission-Driver, Davidoff Mission-Driven Business Strategy, LLC

  • Adler, Alfred. The Science of Living.
  • Berne, Eric. Games People Play.
  • Boyatzis, Richard and Annie McKee. Resonant Leadership.
  • Bradshaw, John. Healing the Shame that Binds You.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
  • Davidoff, John. “Shifting Perspective of the Leader You See Yourself Becoming: A Study of the Effectiveness of an Adlerian Existential Developmental Training for Facilitating the Process of Selfening.”
  • Dweck, Carol. Mindset
  • Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron. “Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality”
  • Fosha, Diana, Daniel J. Siegel, and Marion Solomon. The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience
  • Frankl, Viktor, Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Freud, Anna. The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.
  • Gardner, John. Multiple Intelligences.
  • Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence.
  • Goleman, Daniel, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence.
  • Hanson, Rick. Hardwiring Happiness The New Brain Science of Contentment.
  • Harris, Thomas Anthony. I’m OK. You’re OK.
  • Kegan, Robert and Lisa Laskow Lahey. An Everyone Culture.
  • Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
  • Lowen, Alexander, Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind.
  • Maslow, Abraham. Toward a Psychology of Being.
  • May, Rollo. Love and Will.
  • May, Rollo. Man’s Search for Himself.
  • Miller, Alice. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self.
  • Neff, Kristin. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself.
  • Rogers, Carl. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy
  • Seligman, Martin. Flourish.
  • Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
  • Siegel, Daniel J.The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are.
  • Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be.
  • Watts, Alan. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
  • Wright, Judith and Robert Wright. Transformed! The Science of Spectacular Living.