These books reflect my perspective on leadership — drawn from years of experience in business, community, and organizational life. They’re not step-by-step guides or training manuals. They’re thoughtful, practical reflections on what leadership looks like in real situations — when people, pressure, and change intersect. The eBook editions below are available through Amazon. Original paperback editions may still be found through the used book market.
How to Fly by the Seat of Your Pants
Leaders need to know how to ‘wing it’ effectively during these changing times. How to Fly by the Seat of Your Pants, will show you how to find opportunities in all that turbulence – and be prepared to take advantage of them. You can lead through uncertainty. You can soar, personally and professionally. Hang gliding is optional!
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Leadership In Change
Talk to fifty leaders from various demographics and organizations. Ask each about the changes in leadership, you’ll get fifty perspectives. You’ll also get a collection of insights that will help you stretch your own leadership skills, and improve your teamwork, productivity and results. You’ll get Insights On The Fly.
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Updrafts
Updrafts are pockets of rising air. They create the lift that hang glider pilots use to soar. This book is full of updrafts that will help you soar too. It provides a little lift for leaders like you. Get quick inspiration! Short chapters that give you useful ideas for improving your performance and that of your team.
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Misty Memories
A nostalgic look at change, Misty Memories is published by Alberteen Press. It’s a historical memoir about the two years that my family spent on a tiny isolated lighthouse island back in the 1950s. Find out what life was like back then, then go with us as we return fifty-two years later. “It’s hard to go back.”
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Speaking of Success
For this book, I was invited to submit a chapter about Flying By the Seat of Your Pants. Other chapters include insights from Ken Blanchard (of The One Minute Manager and Who Moved My Cheese? fame,) Jack Canfield (originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series,) Stephen Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People,) and many others.