Listed below are books and articles that are useful to lawyers who want to balance life and law. The books are available from major booksellers. The articles can be obtained through WestLaw or the relevant publishers’ websites. For articles written by Stephanie, click here. You can also view her Blog and Newsletter.
Legal Profession
Steven Keeva, Transforming Practices, Contemporary Books 1999.
Self-Development
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, Pocket Books 1985.
George Leonard, Mastery, Plume 1992.
Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility, Penguin 2002.
Alan Deutschman, “Change or Die”, FastCompany May 2005.
Time/Energy Management
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement, Free Press 2003.
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Free Press 2004.
Performance
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Harper Perennial 1991.
Steven Keeva, “Practicing From the Inside Out”, Harvard Negotiation Law Review Spring 2002.
Leonard L. Riskin, “The Contemplative Lawyer”, Harvard Negotiation Law Review Spring 2002.
Bill Howey, The Actor’s Menu, Compass Publishing 2005.
Rick Carson, Taming Your Gremlin, Quill 2003.
Peter F. Drucker, “Managing Oneself”, Harvard Business School Oct. 2004.
Laura Morgan Roberts, et al., “How to Play to Your Strengths”, Harvard Business Review Jan. 2005.
Balance
Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness, Free Press 2004.
Michael Bungay Stanier, Get Unstuck & Get Going, Box of Crayons Press 2005.
Storytelling
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, ReganBooks 1997.
Robert McKee, “Storytelling That Moves People”, Harvard Business Review June 2003.
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press, 2d ed. 1968.
Stephen Denning, The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling, John Wiley & Sons 2005.
Annette Simmons, The Story Factor, Basic Books 2001.
Herminia Ibarra and Kent Lineback, “What’s Your Story?”, Harvard Business Review Jan. 2005.
Strategic Thinking and Creativity
Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind, Riverhead Books 2005.
Michael Michalko, Cracking Creativity, Ten Speed Press 2001.
Dick Richards, Is Your Genius at Work?, Davies-Black Publishing 2005.
Eric Maisel, Coaching the Artist Within, New World Library 2005.
Tom Peters, “The Brand Called You”, FastCompany Sept. 1997.
Management, Leadership and Rainmaking
Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister, First Among Equals, Free Press 2005.
Robin Wood and Mary Hessler-Key, “Developing Leadership Capacity: Searching for the Integral”, www.inspiralworld.net/dox/devleadercap.htm
Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, The One to One Future, Currency Doubleday 1996.
Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 3d ed. 2005.