The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard. This is the gold standard.
Celebration of the Disciplines, Richard Foster. Foster’s work will help you think through particular disciplines.
Miss Manners Rescues Western Civilization, Judith Martin. Manners grow out of a self-discipline that accents care for others.
Faith- Based Fitness, Kenneth Cooper. Remember we are Christians not Platonists. What we do with our body impacts the spirit.

Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute. This leadership parable will guide you to “get out of the box.”
Leading from the Second Chair, Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson. Like the old adage, there are no small parts just small actors, even people sitting in the second chair have must to contribute to leading an institution.
It Takes So Little to Be Above Average, Florence Littauer. My favorite book title of all time!
What They Don’t Teach You at the Harvard Business School, Mark McCormack. Oldie but goodie.
A Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, Steven Sample. Band wagons can be a dangerous ride. Sample will keep you from jumping on them too quickly.

Boards that Make a Difference, John Carver. Start here to learn about Policy Based Governance.
Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. What Dallas Willard’s book is for self-discipline, Bonhoeffer’s work will support “corporate-discipline.”
The Deming Management Method, Mary Walton. One of the great points of Deming is that if your organization has a problem it is probably a system issue not a people issue.
Mega Trends, John Naisbitt. You may have to search the archives for this one. We continue to trend toward the trends he identified.

Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher. This book reveals the fundamental fault of the Feed America campaign; they are giving people fish without teaching them how to fish.
Our Kids, Robert Putnam. The gap between the haves and the have nots has become a gulf. This book will help give encouragement and direction to local congregations.
When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbitt

People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck. The single most frightening book I ever read.
The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. If it is true we only see what we are looking for, what are we missing because too many of us are looking at life from a non-Biblical perspective.
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Brian Greene. While I understood little of the detail, this book helped me think about how heaven and hell might be related to our present universe.
This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin. I dare you to read this and try to conclude that there is no Creator God.

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