If you’re looking for a good book to read over the holidays, I have a suggestion: Reframing Change, How to deal with workplace dynamics, influence others, and bring people together to initiate positive change, by Latting and Ramsey.
I’ll do a complete review of the book in the next two weeks, but even though I haven’t finished reading, I want to recommend this for your book shelf.
The inside flap provides a quick focus. Should managers and leaders and leaders be aloof and dispassionate, with emotions kept clear of decision-making? Hardly. . . . (Reframing Change is) based on the premise that if people act with integrity and learn to develop positive workplace relationships, a ripple effect can engender similar changes in an organization as a whole.
The early chapters are especially useful at getting at those personal behaviors that often result in relationship barriers. I’ve found the first couple chapters to be especially readable, practical and well-focused on the workplace. It’s also got the cutting-edge stuff you won’t find anyplace else.