Christmas Books

If you have received a book token for Christmas and are looking for an interesting book to purchase then take a look at my Conversational Leadership Books page in my blook.

The book I have been reading over Christmas is this one "Humble Leadership: The power of relationships, openness and trust" by Edgar Schein and his son Peter Schein.

I particularly like their four levels of relationship tough I think I may like to add one or two more levels.

• Level Minus 1: Total impersonal domination and coercion
• Level 1: Transactional role and rule-based supervision, service, and most forms of the "professional" helping relationships
• Level 2: Personal cooperative, trusting relationships as in friendships and in effective teams
• Level 3: Emotionally intimate total mutual commitments

It has also stimulated my thinking about "conversational levels".

And one other new book that I am just starting to get into "The Talking Revolution: How Creative Conversation Can Change The World" by Peter Osborn and Eddy Canfor-Dumas which has a lot of overlap with my thinking on Conversational Leadership.