Set Yourself Up For Success

Here are resources that relate to the 42 Rules in that part of the book. Resources include worksheets, podcasts, and posts from Pam, as well as links to articles, research studies, and other tools to help you learn even more about leading well.

Rule 1 – Rules Are Meant to be Broken

Research: Van Velsor, E., & Leslie, J.B., “Why Executives Derail: Perspectives Across Time and Cultures” (1995)

Rule 2 – Begin Ready

Article: Daniel McGinn, “Being More Productive,” (2011)

Article:  Stewart D. Friedman, “Keep Your Home Life Sane when Work Gets Crazy.’ (2015)

Article: Sarah Firshein, “Honeymoons, Babymoons and Jobbymoons?” (2018)

Rule 3 – Fire Up Your Task Management System

Website:  Jason Womack, “The Womack Company, Coaching: Maximize Your Time with Individualized Training.”

Article: Alice Boyes, “How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work.” (2019)

Article: Robert C. Pozen and Kevin Downey, ” What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others.” (2019)

Rule 4 – Draft Your Strategic One-Pager

Post: Anythony Chan, “Strategy on One Page.” (2011)

Article: Ron Carucci, “Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job” (2016)

Rule 5 – Take Charge of Your Start

Book: David Rock, “Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long” 1 ed. (2009)

Article: Steve Gallagher, “The First 90 Days in a New CIO Position” (2013)

Map the Terrain

Rule 6 – Leverage the Honeymoon

Article: Diane Swanbrow-Michigan, “Friends with Cognitive Benefits” (2010)

Article: Julie Zhuo, “Making the Most of Your First Three Months as a New Manager.” 

Article: Rob Cross, “To Be Happier at Work, Invest More in Your Relationships.” (2019)

Article: Thomas Oppong, “An FBI Behavior Expert Explains How to Quickly build Trust With Anyone.”

Article: David Brendel, “Asking Open-Ended Questions Helps New Managers Build Trust.”

Article: Liz Weissman, “Embrace Your Rookie Status.” (2016)

Article: Steven D’Souza and Dianna Renner, “New Managers Don’t Have to Have All the Answers.” (2016)

Rule 7 – Map What Matters to Most People with Power

Article: David Ruth-Rice, “Losers Get Punished for Tying to Lead” (2010)

Book: Allen R. Cohen and David L. Bradford, Influence Without Authority, 2nd ed. (2005)

Article: Thomas Barta and Patrick Barwise, “Why effective leaders must manage up, down and sideways.” (2017)

Article: Melissa Raffoni, “How to Get Noticed by Your Boss’s Boss.” (2019)

Article: Rebecca Knight, “What to Do When you Get a New Boss Every Few Months.” (2016)

Rule 8 – Uncover Precisely How Your Group Creates Value

Rule 9 – Figure Out What to Prove by When

Article: Whitney Johnson, “Managing Up Without Sucking Up.” (2014)

Article: Claudio Feser, Fernanda Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan, “Decoding Leadership: What really matters.” (2015)

Article: Jack Zinger and Joseph Folkman, “You Have to Be Fast to Be Seen as a Great Leader.” (2015)

Rule 10 – Set Your Milestones

Article: Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C MacMillan, “Discovery-Driven Planning,” (1995)

Article: James Hamblin, “Always Make Promises” (2014)

Article: Joseph Grenny, “How to Say “No” at Work Without Making Enemies.” (2019)

Article: Ohio Sate University, “Share your goals — but be careful whom you tell.” (2019)

Show Up Wisely

Rule 11 – Apply Your Strengths – and Beware

Article: George Bradt, “A Framework for Turning Individuals’ Strengths into Team Synergies” (2012)

Article: Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, “Can You Take Your Strengths Too Far?” (2012)

Article: Ed Batista “Excellence, Signature Strengths and Strategic Quitting” (2010)

Article: Ed Baista “A Self-Coaching Guide for Leaders at All Levels” (2012)

Rule 12 – Deal with Your Weak Spots

Podcast: Pam Fox Rollin “Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 41 – Miriam Rivera, Ulu Ventures,” (2010)

Article: Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, “Most Leaders Know Their Strengths – but Are Oblivious to Their Weaknesses.” (2018)

Article: Dina Gerdeman “Why Managers Should Reveal Their Weaknesses.” (2018)

Rule 13 – (Re)Introduce Yourself, Internally and Externally

Article: Heidi Grant, “We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other.”n (2015)

Article: Nathan T. Washburn and Benjamin Galvin, “Followers Don’t See Their Leaders as Real People.” (2017)

Article: Eilene Zimmerman, “Which Will Get You Further: Fitting In or Standing Out?” (2016)

Article: “Fake it Until You Make IT? Not So Fast.” (2015)

Article: David Rock, Heidi Grant, Jacqui Grey, “Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable – and That’s Why They Perform Better.” (2016)

Article: Herminia Ibarra, “The Authenticity Paradox.” (2015)

Rule 14 – Don’t Blame the Last Guy

Rule 15 – Show People How to Work with You

Article: Jean Francios Manzoni, “Dealing with a Hands-Off Boss.” (2014)

Article: Roger Schwarz, “How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them.” (2016)

Rule 16 – Get Over Yourself

Article: Columbia Business School “Power Isn’t Enough: Study Reveals Missing Link for Effective Leadership” (2014)

Article: Paul Raciborski and Alan Sieler, “The Legitimate Other.” 

Article: Jerry. Useem, “Power Causes Brain Damage.” (2017)

Start Your Wins

Rule 17 – Pick Smart Quick Wins

Article: Mark E. Van Buren and Todd Safferstone, “The Quick Wins Paradox,” (2009)

Book: Nilofer Merchant, “The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy” (2009)

Article: Karen A. Brown, Nancy Lea Hyer and Richard Ettenson, “The Question Every Project Team Should Answer.” (2013)

Rule 18 – Plant Seeds for Future Wins

Book: Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, “Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People”, 1st ed., (2009)

Article: Diego Rodriguez and Ryan Jacoby, “Embracing Risk to Learn, Grow and Innovate” (2009)

Article: Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman & Karrin Kaeufer, “The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams.” (2002)

Article: Paul V. Weinstein, “Win Over the Person Blocking Your Deal.” (2014)

Article: Dan Slate, “Things I Wish I Knew as a First-Time Manager.” (2017)

Article: Anthony Moore, “Ordinary People Focus on the Outcome. Extraordinary People Focus on the Process.” (2018)

Article: Sharon K. Parker and Ying (Lena) Wang, “When to Take Initiative at Work and When Not To.” (2019)

Article: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely, Frances X. Frei, “Managing Yourself, Stop Holding Yourself Back.” (2011)

Article: Alex Hill, Liz Mellon, Ben Laker, Jules Goddard,  “The one Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School.” (2016)

Rule 19 – Tune Up Your Team

Article: Murray Barrick, “Putting the Right Worker in the Right Job” (2013)

Article: Amy Gallo, “How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team” (2009)

Article: Sarah Green, “Everything You Need to Know About Giving Negative Feedback” (2014)

Article: Leslie Brokaw, “Why the Non-Superstar Might Be the Most Important Team Member” (2014)

Article: Elizabeth MacBride, “Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team?” (2015)

Article: Pat Wadors, “Letting Good People Go When It’s Time.” (2015)

Article: Sarah Cliffe,  “Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence, Which Matters More?” (2015)

Article: Nicole Torres,  “It’s Better to Avoid a toxic Employee than Hire A Superstar.” (2015)

Article: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Max H. Bazerman, and Dolly Chugh, “How (Un)ethical Are You?” (2003)

Article: Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, “Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done.” (2019)

Article: David Rock, Heidi Grant, Jacquie Grey,  “Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable – and That’s Why They Perform Better.” (2016)

Article: Ron Carucci, “5 Reasons Executives Wait Too Long to Fire Their Direct Reports.” (2019)

Article: Liz Kislik “How to Retain and Engage Your B Players.” (2018)

Article: Michael D. Watkins, “Leading the Team You Inherit.” (2016)

Article: Roger L. Martin”The 3 Simple Rules of Managing Top Talent.” (2017)

Article: Michael Mankins, “How to Manage a Team of All-Stars.” (2017)

Article: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, “4 Reasons Talented Employees Don’t Reach Their Potential.”(2019)

Rule 20 – Communicate Early and Often

Case Study: Jeffrey Pfeffer, “Kent Thiry and DaVita,” (2006)

Book: Jeffrey Pfeffer, “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t” (2000)

Research: Kim Girard, “It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works,” (2011)

Article: Nancy Duarte, “3 Ways to Help People Understand What Your Data Means.” (2019)

Article: Steve Zaffron and Gregory Unruh, “Your Organization Is a Network of Conversations.” (2018)

Article: Donald Sull, Charles Sull and James Yoder, “No One Knows Your Strategy – Not Even Your Top Leaders.” (2018)

Article: Claire Lew, “How to Manage Up Effectively, 5 not-so-often-shared ways to manage up and have a better relationship with your boss.” (2019)

Article: Matt Abrahams, “One Communication Tool You Should Add To Your Toolkit.” (2017)

Article: Amy Gallo, “How To Get Your Colleagues’ Attention.” (2015)

Article: Srini Pillay, “How Leaderless Groups End Up with Leaders.” (2016)

Article: Nancy Duarte, “How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation.” (2018)

Article: Mironov, “Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions.” (2018)

Rule 21 – Tell a Good Story

Article: Robert Sapolsky, “This is Your Brain on Metaphors” (2010)

Article: Bill Taylor, “The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same” (2013)

Book: Nancy Duarte, “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences” (2010)

Book: Patrick A. Lencioni, “The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable” (2010)

Article: Kimberly Weifling, “The Stories We Well: Creating and Perpetuating Your Corporate DNA.”

Article: Science Daily, “Pitch Perfect: Strategic language use maximizes the chances of influencing an audience.” (2019)

Article: Cristina Curtis, “Teach Your Team to Expect Success.” (2016)

Article: Matt Abrahams, “Tips and Techniques for More Confident and Compelling Presentations.” (2015)

Article: Edith Onderick Harvey, “5 Ways to Help Your Team Be Open to Change.” (2019)

Article: Le Anee Lagasse, “3 Body Language Mistakes Leaders Make.” (2019)

Article: Baylor University, “Supervisors driven by bottom line fail to get top performance from employees.” (2019)

Article: David Reimer, Adam Bryant, and Harry Feuerstein, “The Four Factors of Exceptional Leaders.” (2018)

Rule 22 – Bring Value to Any Room

Book: David Rock, “Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long” 1 ed. (2009)

Book: Susan Scott, “Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time” (2002)

Article: Mary Slaughter and Chris Weller, “How Powerful People Slip.” (2019)

Article: Michael Blanding, “Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams.” (2013)

Article: Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, “If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present” (2017)

Article: Katherine Schaffler,  “How to Change Your Life in One Second Flat.” (2017)

Article: James Ryan, “5 Questions Leaders Should Be Asking All the Time.” (2017)

Article: Chauncey Bell, “Leadership by Design: Fundamental Skills For Creating And Managing Value, By Chauncey Bell And Guillermo Wechsler.” (2016)

Rule 23 – Balance Curiosity, Advice and Silence

Book: Nilofer Merchant, “The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy,” 1 ed. (2010)

Research: Jack Zenger, Joe Folkman, and Kurt Sandholtz. “Five Insights From Leadership Research,” (2009)

Article: Jeanne DeWitt, “5 Tips for New Team Leaders” (2014)

Article: Ted Cadsby, “Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong” (2011)

Article: Adam Bryant, ” How to Think Like a CEO.” (2019)

Article: Megan Reitz and John Higgins, “Managers, You’re More Intimidating Thank You Think.” (2019)

Article: David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis, “The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice.” (2015)

Article: Warren Berger,  “Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite.” (2015)

Create Your Management System

Rule 24 – Make Your Own Metrics

Article: James Clear, “Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.” (2016)

Article: Daniel Markovitz, “How Visual Systems Make It Easier to Track Knowledge Work.” (2015)

Rule 25 – Catalog Risks and Start Mitigating

Article: Crystal Cox Cooper, “Using a Premortem Process to Reduce Complex Project Risks.” (2018)

Rule 26 – Run Unmissable Meetings

Article: Michael Watkins, “Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles” (2013)

Article: David Burkus, “How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams” (2013)

Article: Peter Bregman, “Four Areas Where Senior Leaders Should Focus Their Attention” (2013)

Article: Peter Economy, “7 Ways to End Every Meeting on a Positive Note” (2014)

Article: Laurel Hechanova and Patrick Di Michele, “Let’s Have Better Meetings!” (2019)

Article: Renee Cullinan, “Run Meetings That Are Fair To Intoverts, Women and Remote Workers.” (2016)

Article: Paul Axtell, “Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation.” (2019)

Article: Roger Schwarz, “5 Ways Meetings Get Off Track, and How to Prevent Each One.” (2016)

Article: Paul Axtell, “Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation.” (2019)

Article: “Paul Axtell.”The Most Productive Meetings Have Fewer Than 8 People.” (2018)

Rule 27 – Adjust Your Approach

Podcast: Pam Fox Rollin, “Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 43 with Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs” (2010)

Website: Ken Blanchard, The Ken Blanchard Companies, Situational Leadership II

Article: Sabina Nawaz, “Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?” (2017)

Article: Charles Duhigg, “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team.” (2016)

Article: Jessica Powell, “How to Manage Someone Who Used to Be Your Peer.” (2019)

Article: Brian Uzzi, “Great Leaders Can Think Like Each Member of Their Team.” (2015)

Article: Paul Raciborski and Alan Sieler, “Ontonlogical Coaching and Consulting, The Legitimate Other.” 

Article: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story.” (2013)

Article: Rebecca Knight, “How to Be Good at Managing Both Introverts and Extroverts.” (2015)

Rule 28 – Launch 1:1’s that Actually Drive Performance

Article: Gary B. Cohen, “Leadership: How to Ask the Right Questions” (2009)

Article: Deborah Grayson Riegel, “The Assumptions Employees Make When They Don’t Get Feedback.” (2019)

Article: Scott Mautz, “Google Identifies Its Very Best Leaders Using These 13 Questions.” 

Article: Takeshi Yoshida, “Radical Candor: My Go To Feedback Routine.” (2018)

Article: Jerry Connor, “To Coach Junior Employees, Start with 4 Conversations.” (2019)

Article: Mike Robbins, ” Why Employees Need Both Recognition and Appreciation.” (2019)

Article: Donald Sull and Charles Sull, “With Goals, FAST Beats SMART.” (2018)

Article: Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, “The Feedback Fallacy.” (2019)

Article: Claire Lew, “The 4 questions you should stop asking during your one-on-one meetings.” (2018)

Article: Dave Bailey, “Here’s a Simple Way to Hold Your Team Accountable.” (2019)

Article: Patrick Riley, “How to Give Feedback and Why I’ve Been Doing It All Wrong.” (2019)

Article: Lou Solomon, “The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders.” (2015)

Article: Marion Barraud, “If You Can’t Empathize with Your Employees, You’d Better Learn to.” (2016)

Article: “What’s the Number 1 Leadership Skill For Overall Success?” (2016)

Article: Liane Davey, “A Game Plan for That Conversation You’ve Been Putting Off.” (2017)

Article: “Top 10 Questions Managers Are Asking During One-On-One Meetings.” (2017)

Rule 29 – Make the Most of Screwups

Article: Allison Rimm, “To Guide Difficult Conversations, Try Using Compassion” (2013)

Article: Sabina Nawaz,  “The Problems with Saying, “Don’t Bring Me Problems, Brings Me Solutions.” (2017)

Article: Peter Bregman, “The Right Way to Hold People Accountable.” (2016)

Article: Andy Molinsky, “The 4 Types of Ineffective Apologies.” (2016)

Article: Clifton B. Parker, “Compassion is a wise and effective managerial strategy, Stanford expert says.” (2015)

Article: Cheryl Snapp Conner, “In a Crisis, Use These 3 Forms of Empathy to Serve your Customers Well.” (2017)

Article: Maurice E. Schweitzer, Alison Wood Brooks and Adam D. Galinsky, “The Organizational Apology.” (2015)

Article: Peter Bregman, “How Leaders Should React When Someone Disappoints.” (2015)

Article: Amanda Almendala, “The 6 Elements of an effective Apology According to Science.” (2016)

Rule 30 – Grow More Leaders

Article: Adam Bryant, “Connecting the Dots Isn’t Enough,” July 18, 2009

Article: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “The Big Idea: The Wise Leader, ” May 2011

Article: Fred Hassan, “The Frontline Advantage,” May 2011

Article: Andrew O’Connell, “Don’t Make New Hires Conform; Instead, Focus on Their Individual Strengths” (2013)

Article: Kerry Bunker, Kathy Kram and Sharon Ting, “The Young and the Clueless” (2002)

Article: Gustavo Razzetti, “How to Move Your Organization from Fear Fearlessness.”

Article: Stewart D. Freidman “How to Get Your to Coach Each Other.” (2015)

Article: David Reimer, Adam Bryant, and Harry Feuerstein, “The Four X factors of Exceptional Leaders.” (2018)

Article: Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman,  “If Your Boss Thinks You’re Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome.” (2015)

Article: Kevin Lane, Alexia Larmaraud, and Emily Yueh, “Finding Hidden Leaders.” 

Article: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Seymore Adler, Robert B. Kaiser, “What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees.” (2017) 

Article: Kim Peters and Alex Haslam, “Research: To Be A Good Leader, Start By Being a Good Follower.” (2018)

Article: Kelly Palmer and David Blake, “How To Help Your Employees Learn from Each Other.” (2018)

Rule 31 – Call in the Experts

Article: Melba J. Duncan, ” The Case for Executive Assistants,” May 2011

Article: Marion Poetz, Reinhard. Prugl,  “Find the Right Expert for Any Problem.” (2015)

Stay Smart

Rule 32 – Strengthen Your Strategic Point of View

Book: Tim Jackson, “Inside Intel: Andrew Grove and the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Chip Company”, 1 ed. (1997)

Article: Liane Davey, “9 Ways You Can Inspire Healthy Conflict On Your Team.” (2019)

Article: Julie Zhuo, “How To Be Strategic.” (2018)

Article: Dan Lovallo and Olivier Sibony, “The Case for Behavioral Strategy.” (2010)

Rule 33 – Stay Current and Capable

Book:Kathryn Ullrich, “Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success” (2010)

Website: Evernote

Article: Liz Wiseman, “Why Your Team Needs Rookies” (2014)

Article:Ron Carucci, “A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do.” (2016)

Article: Daniel Han Ming Chng, Tae-Yeol Kim, Brad Gilbreath, and Lynne Andersson, “Why People Believe in Their Leaders – or Not.” (2018)

Rule 34 – Model Healthy Paranoia

Book: Andrew Grove, “Only the Paranoid Survive”, 1 ed. (1996)

Book: Jeffrey Pfeffer, “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t”(2000)

Research: Adam D. Galinsky et al, “Power and Perspectives Not Taken,” Psychological Science 17, no. 12 (2006)

Article:Lou Solomon,”Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic.”(2015)

Article: Michael Jarrett “The 4 Types of Organizational Politics.” (2017)

Article:University of Guelph, “People Love to Hate Do-Gooders, Especially at Work.” (2018)

Article:Sara Critchfield, “How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment.” (2017)

Article:Ed Batista, “Open Loops. (Leadership and Uncertainty)” (2019)

Article: Anamaria Nino-Murcia, “Shift Your Story About Power.” (2019)

Article: Max H. Bazerman, “Becoming a First-class Noticer.” (2014)

Rule 35 – Ferret Out Feedback

Article: Deborah Halber, “Why We Learn More from Our Successes than Our Failures” (2009)

Article: Ed Batista, “Creating a Feedback-Rich Culture” (2013)

Article: Noreena Hertz, “Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief” (2013)

Article: Stever Robbins, “Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make” (2009)

Article: Juliet Bourke and Andrea Espedido, “Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One.” (2019)

Article: Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal, and Ashely Williams, “Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback.” (2019)

Article: Sabina Nawaz, “How to Take Criticism Well.” (2019)

Article: Joseph Grenny and Brittney Maxfield, “How Leaders Can Ask for the Feedback No One Wants to Give Them.” (2019)

Article: James R. Detert and Ethan R. Burris, “Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely?”(2016)

Article: Carolyn O’Hara, “How to Get the Feedback You Need.” (2015)

Article: Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, “We Like Leaders Who Underrate Themselves.” (2015)

Article: “What I Don’t Hear Can’t Hurt Me: Insecure Managers Avoid Input From Employees.” (2014)

Tool: Pam Fox Rollin, “How to Receive Feedback”

Receiving Feedback

Rule 36 – Build Your Industry Presence

Book: Sharon L. Richmond. “Introduction to Type & Leadership: Develop More Effective Leaders of Every Type” (2008)

Article: Aine Doris and Nir Halevy, “How to Invest in Your Social Capital.” (2019)

Article: Marc Effron, “A Simple Way to Map Our Your Career Ambitions.” (2018)

Article: Maxim Sytch, “How to Figure Out How Much Influence You Have at Work.” (2019)

Set You and Your Team to Thrive

Rule 37 – Make Your Job Doable

Article: Michigan State University, “If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again.” (2018)

Article: Rebecca Knight, “How to Say No to Taking on More Work.” (2016)

Article: Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, “Make Time for the Work That Matters.” (2013)

Article: Harvard Business Review Staff, “Align Your Time Management with Your Goals.” (2014)

Rule 38 – Stoke the Energy of Your Group

Article: Teresa M. Arnabile and Steven J. Kramer, “The Power of Small Wins,” (2011)

Article: Daniel Goleman, “Leadership that Gets Results,” (2000)

Book: Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey Laskow, “How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Book: Seven Languages for Transformation”, 1st ed. (2002)

Article: George Halvorson, “Getting to ‘Us'” (2014)

Article: Walter Chen, “The Boring Trait Google Looks For in Its Leaders” (2014)

Article: Laura Vanderkam, “Why Managers Should Spend Exactly 6 Hours A Week With Each Employee” (2014)

Article: Jill Krasny, “It’s Official: Micromanaging Kills Productivity” (2014)

Article: Mark Crowley, “Why Being Engaged At Work Isn’t As Simple As ‘Being Happy'” (2014)

Article: Joseph Pistrui, Dimo Dimov, “The Role of a Manager Has to Change is 5 Key Ways.” (2018)

Article: Matt Plummer, “How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?” (2018)

Article: Ron Carucci, “Are Your High Expectations Hurting Your Team?” (2019)

Article: Marcel Schwantes, “Why Do People Quit Their Jobs, Exactly? Here’s the Entire Reason, Summed Up in 1 Sentence.” (2017)

Article: Alex Liu, ” Making Joe a Priority at Work.” (2019)

Article: Dave Bailey, “Every Team Needs Its ‘Oh Sh*t Moment.” (2019)

Rule 39 – Mind Your Mood

Article: Jeffrey Schwartz, Pablo Gaito, and Doug Lennick, “That’s the Way We (Used to) Do Things Around Here” (2011)

Article: Candace M. Raio, Temidayo A. Orederu, Laura Palazzolo, Ashley A. Shurick, and Elizabeth A. Phelps, “Even Mild Stress Can Make It Difficult to Control Your Emotions” (2013)

Podcast: Wayne Turmel. “The Cranky Middle Manager Show #244 The Way we’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz,” (2010)

Article: Kristi Hedges, “Making Sure Your Stress Isn’t Contagious.” (2019)

Article: Emma Seppala and Christina Bradley, “Handling Negative Emotions in a Way That’s Good for Your Team.” (2019)

Article: Amy Jen Su, “3 Ways to Stay Calm When Conversations Get Intense.” (2016)

Article: Alice Boyes, “5 Things to Do When You Feel Overwhelmed by Your Workload.” (2018)

Article: Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, “How Leaders Can Open to Their  Teams Without Oversharing.” (2019)

Article: Klodiana Lanaj, Trevor A. Foulk, and Amir Erez, “How Self-Reflection Can Help Leaders Stay Motivated.” (2018)

Rule 40 – Now Lead with Your Life in Mind

Article: Science Daily, “Memory Links to 40 Winks” (2010)

Book: John Medina, “Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School” (2008)

Article: Kristi Erdal, “Just Thinking You Slept Poorly Can Hurt Your Performance” (2014)

Article: Tony Schwartz, “Why You Hate Work” (2014)

Article: Ron Friedman, ” Regular Exercise Is Part Of Your Job” (2014)

Article: Brigid Schulte, “Preventing Busyness from Becoming Burnout.” (2019)

Rule 41 – Use Your Power for Good

Article/Audio: Tom Tierney, “Social Innovation Conversations: Nonprofit Management and the Leadership Deficit,” (2007)

Book: Debra E Meyerson, “Tempered Radicals”, 1st ed. (2003)

Podcast: Pam Fox Rollin. “Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 63 | John A. Byrne, Poets & Quants” (2010)

Website: Lindsay Levin, “Leaders’ Quest: Connecting and Inspiring Leaders Around the World”

Article: Jeffrey Schwartz, Josie Tomson and Art Kleiner, “The Seven Stages of Strategic Leadership.” (2019)

Article: Elizabeth Grace Saunders, “9 Ways to Say No to Busywork and Unrealistic Deadlines.” (2019)

Rule 42 – These Are My Rules. What Are Yours?

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