Safety Culture Excellence®

1. Lessons in Mastery by Anthony Robbins

2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. Organizational Consulting: How to Be an Effective Internal Change Agent by Alan Weiss

4. The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability by Roger Connors, Tom Smith and Craig Hickman

5. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

1. Heaven is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

4. 10 Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships by Dr. Laura Schilessinger

5. Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up by Steve Kerr with Glenn Rifkin

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

1. Thrive! Stop Wishing Your Life Away by Alan Weiss

2. The Four-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss

3. The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer

4. Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results by Jeff Cannon and Jon Cannon

5. In The Sounds and Seas Volume 1 by Marnie Galloway

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

1. Ignore Everything: and 39 Other Keys To Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

2. Poke The Box by Seth Godin

3. The Consulting Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Expand a Seven-Figure Consulting Practice by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.

4. It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques From the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Michael Abrashoff

5. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

6. Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story by Peter Guber

7. Decision Points by George W. Bush

8. The Global Consultant: How To Make Seven Figures Across Boarders by Alan Weiss and Omar Khan

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

1. Leading The Charge: Leadership Lessons From The Battlefield to the Boardroom by General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz

2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

3. Million Dollar Coaching: Build A World-Class Practice by Helping Others Succeed by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.

4. The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization by Peter F. Drucker with Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes, Judith Rodin, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Frances Hesselbein

5. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

6. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

7. Business Etiquette: 101 Ways to Conduct Business With Charm and Savvy by Ann Marie Sabath

8. Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results by Roger Connors and Tom Smith

9. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

1. Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio

2. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Sandra Blakeslee

3. Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles

4. Value-Based Fees: How to Charge – and Get – What You’re Worth by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.

5. Please Hug Me—I’ve Been Delayed: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Help You Survive These Not-So-Friendly Skies by Jeff Michaels

6. Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter

Happy reading!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

 

1.           The Leadership Engine: Building Leaders at Every Level by Noel Tichy with Eli Cohen

2.           Million Dollar Speaking: The Professional’s Guide to Building Your Platform by Alan Weiss, Ph.D.

3.           Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management Systems by Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley

4.           For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

5.           What Is Six Sigma? by Pete Pande and Larry Holpp

6.           The Secrets of Power Negotiating: How to Gain the Upper Hand in Any Negotiation by Roger Dawson

7.           Globalization (EK Essential Managers) by Pervez Ghauri and Sarah Powell

 

Happy reading!

 

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

 

1.           On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits by Wray Herbert

2.           Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis by Ram Charan

3.           Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice by Alan Weiss

4.           The First 90 Days: Critical Success for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins

5.           How To Maximize Fees In Professional Service Firms by Alan Weiss

6.           Contrary to Popular Belief: More than 250 False Facts Revealed by Joey Green

7.           The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

8.           Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar’s Way to Transform Your Dog… and Your Life by Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier

9.           Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined By Your Daily Agenda by John C. Maxwell

10.       Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

Happy reading!

 

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

 

 

Welcome to 2011. Every year I commit to continuing my education through advanced courses, workshops, writings, speaking, application and self-study. I believe that once you stopped learning, you have stopped living. Below is a list (by month) of the books I read in 2010.

 

January

 

1.           The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

2.           The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

3.           Teach Your Child How To Think by Edward de Bono

4.           Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny by Anthony Robbins

5.           Lean Safety: Transform Your Safety Culture With Lean Management by Robert Hafey

6.           The Half-Truth High: Breaking the Illusions of the Most Powerful Drug In Life & Business by Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D.

7.           What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

 

February

 

1.           Who Killed Change?: Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change by Ken Blanchard, John Britt, Judd Hoekstra and Pat Zigarmi

2.           Coaching People: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges by Harvard Business School Press

3.           Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

4.           SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

 

March

 

1.           Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom

2.           Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

3.           You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference by Mark Sanborn

4.           The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do by Mark Sanborn

5.           The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly

6.           Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

7.           Succession: Are You Ready? (Memo to the CEO) by Marshall Goldsmith

 

April

 

1.           Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We By and Who We Are by Rob Walker

2.           How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins

3.           Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others by David Kord Murray

4.           Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

5.           My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

6.           A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

7.           Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney

 

May

 

1.           Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

2.           Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach by James Roughton and James Mercurio

3.           A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing by Jim Rogers

4.           Creating Mind: How The Brain Works by John E. Dowling

5.           Principle-Centered Leadership By Stephen R. Covey

 

June

 

1.           Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2.           Motivating People by Mike Bourne and Pippa Bourne

3.           Coaching Successfully by John P. Eaton, Roy Johnson and Robert Heller

4.           Thinking Creatively by George P. Boulden

5.           Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times: How to Win in Any Environment by Stephen R. Covey, Bob Whitman and Breck England

6.           Great Work Great Career: How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary Contribution by Stephen R. Covey, Jennifer Colosimo, and Breck England

7.           Good Business - Leadership, Flow, And The Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

8.           Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith

9.           The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford

10.        Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Burr Leonard

 

July

 

1.           Coaching and Mentoring Skills by Andrew J. DuBrin

2.           Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa

3.           The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? By Rick Warren

 

August

 

1.           Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

2.           Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors by Fred Pryor Seminars

3.           Getting Naked: A Business Fable about shedding the three fears that sabotage client loyalty by Patrick Lencioni

4.           Brand You: Personal Branding for Success in Life and Business by Julius E. Rhodes

5.           CRUSH IT! Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk

 

September

 

1.           Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

2.           Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

3.           Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

4.           The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt

5.           Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life by David Allen

6.           Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long by David Rock

 

October

 

1.           Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin and Robert B. Cialdini

2.           Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen

3.           Linchpin: Are You Indispensable by Seth Godin

4.           Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

5.           Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

6.           Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change by Behnam N. Tabrizi

 

November

 

1.           Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh

2.           How to Raise a Gentleman: A Civilized Guide To Helping Your Son Through His Uncivilized Childhood by Kay West

3.           Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres

4.           Becoming a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day by Joel Osteen

5.           Toasts and Tributes: A Gentleman’s Guide to Personal Correspondence and the Noble Tradition of the Toast by John Bridges and Bryan Curtis

6.           The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor

7.           Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability by Sidney Dekker

8.           Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley

9.           Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst by Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D.

10.        As A Gentleman Would Say by John Bridges and Bryan Curtis

 

December

 

1.           The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur and Sara Schley

2.           How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill

3.           Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan

4.           The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships by Clifford Nass with Corina Yen

5.           The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

6.           Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

 

Have a great, safe and adventurous 2011!

 

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

 

 

 

1.    The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur and Sara Schley

2.    How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill

3.    Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan

4.    The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships by Clifford Nass with Corina Yen

5.    The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

6.    Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

 

Happy reading!

 

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety