Recommended - Talent & Business

Great by Choice: Uncertainty Chaos and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All and, of course, Good to Great and Built to Last
Jim Collins and Morten Hansen
No one takes a boatload of data and turns it into insight, stories, and metaphor like Jim Collins. Great by Choice is the best book yet, with lessons you can apply immediately to both your organization and your self. Invigorating read and highly recommended.

The Elephant and the Flea
Charles Handy
An insightful look into the world of work and how it is changing in the 21st century. Written 25 years ago, Charles Handy fully predicts the gig economy and most of the workforce trends we are seeing today. Amazing thinker and writer.

The Leadership Pipeline
Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
The classic and enduring framework for building (not buying) your company's leadership capabilities

Co-Active Coaching: Coaching People Toward Success
Laura Whitworth, et. al.
More coaching skills based in a gifts-model (as opposed to the deficiency-model).

Managing With Power and Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
Jeffery Pfeffer
The first work clarifies what is going on in every organization and how influence works; the second is how power works for individuals and teams. Explains how things really work, not how they should.  Enlightening.

The Power of Full Engagement
Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
How to find meaning and keep balance while performing at a high level.

The Essential Drucker
Peter Drucker
The master. Unbelievable how much of his thought leadership on business and management, written over sixty years, are still spot on.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Good overview of the dynamics in many teams, and how to improve the dynamics to improve performance. Excellent workbook for this series.

Strategic Business Partner and Performance Consulting
Dana Gaines Robinson (and James Robinson)
A must read for every HR practitioner, providing a clear methodology for improving business results through linking business performance goals to people performance behaviors.

Flawless Consulting
Peter Block
How to work inside an organization with honesty and humility. Chapters 15, 16, and 19 are life-changing.

Your Next Move: The Leader's Guild to Successfully Navigating Major Career Transitions
Michael Watkins 
Great insights and tactics; a much more useable book than his last one, The First 90 Days. Good practical tips for leaders in transition, and for those trying to facilitate those transitions. and easy.

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Stewart Friedman
I can envision using this as the basis for a career workshop; good exercises and thought provoking questions for you to explore the leadership style that works for you.

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
An uneven book, but a good introduction to the practical doing of 'networking' with lots of how-to tips and ideas worth pondering to find your own answers.