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Welcome to the Trust Across America™ Reading Room. The following books are written by authors who prioritize trustworthy behavior in business. The list is arranged alphabetically by author, followed by Amazon.com links to their books. Some of these authors have appeared on our radio show and some have done guest blogger interviews with us. If you have written a book, or would like to suggest a book to be added to this list, please email Barbara@trustacrossamerica.com.


NEW BOOKS as of February 05, 2012


All For One
Andrew Sobel writes about how to create an ‘all-for-one, one-for-all’ culture in which the whole is greater than the sum-of-the-parts and we succeed in leveraging our global network to deliver value to clients?" How do we mobilize the right people, resources, and ideas—across a multitude of organizational and geographic boundaries—into each and every client relationship?" How do we evolve from a trusted advisor to a trusted partner and build multi-year, institutional relationships? These questions and more are answered in Sobel's latest book.

  


Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies...
John Spence writes about what the world's most successful companies and organization have in common. And what can you actually take away and use from their examples?

  


Brand Valued
Guy Champniss has written a book that addresses the growing significance of social capital in the business world. Brand Valued explores how as the strength, depth, and quality of interactions between a brand and its customers improve, increased opportunities to demonstrate trustworthiness arise. This in turn creates a self-fulfilling cycle, wherein trust begets social capital, which begets more trust—and even shared thinking—not to mention better sales.

  


Buffett's Bites
L. J. Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO strategic and investor relations company that annually conducts a benchmark survey of CEO candor and stock price performance. Her research shows that candor drives superior performance, and companies that consistently strive to promote candor gain competitive advantage and superior valuation.

  


Building the High Trust Organization
Dr. Pamela S. Shockley-Zalabak is Chancellor and Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The author of eight books and over 100 articles and productions on organizational communication, Dr. Shockley’s research interests include organizational trust and cultures as they relate to overall organizational effectiveness.

  


Building Trust at the Speed of Change
Edward is a Senior Partner in the Organizational Leadership Practice at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro, North Carolina. Edward’s career spans more than 30 years as an expert in collaboration, leadership development, team and organizational transformation, and as an executive coach.

  


Built on Trust
In Built on Trust: Gaining Competitive Advantage in Any Organization Silicon Valley consultants Arthur Ciancutti and Thomas Steding contend that conscious creation of a true values-based enterprise--stemming directly from an open and honest environment of mutual trust--will produce the kind of effective and enduring competitive advantage that popular "management programs du jour" never could.

  


Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity
Authors Laura Hartman and Joseph DesJardins teach ethical skills, vocabulary and tools to apply in everyday business decisions.

  


Corporate Dreams
Public trust in corporations plummeted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when “Lehman Brothers” and “General Motors” became dirty words for many Americans. In Corporate Dreams, James Hoopes argues that Americans still place too much faith in corporations and, especially, in the idea of “values-based leadership” favored by most CEOs. The danger of corporations, he suggests, lies not just in their economic power, but also in how their confused and undemocratic values are infecting Americans’ visions of good governance.

  


Corporate Governance
As part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, this book provides a comprehensive view of the shareholder-manager relationship and examines the current state of governance mechanisms in mitigating the principal-agent conflict. This book also offers informed suggestions and predictions about the future direction of corporate governance.

  


Corporate Reputation
Leslie Gaines-Rossis Chief Reputation Strategist at Weber Shandwick’s global reputation consulting services and proprietary thought leadership development. She is the architect of groundbreaking, award-winning research into CEO and corporate reputation, executive team reputation, leadership transitions, corporate rankings, and reputation sustainability and recovery.

  

Crisis of Character
Peter Firestein is the President of Global Strategic Communications, Inc. He is known internationally as an expert advisor in the management of corporate relationships with financial and non-financial stakeholders.

  

Do More than Give
Internationally-acclaimed experts, Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania and Mark Kramer examine the new strategies today’s most effective donors are using to become proactive catalysts for change instead of merely passive check-writers or grant makers. The authors define this new movement of catalytic philanthropy and show how any donor can apply its practices to re-envision their role and achieve as much impact as possible from their full range of resources.

  


Embedded Sustainability
In Embedded Sustainability, authors Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva convincingly show how companies can better leverage global challenges for enduring profit and growth.

  


Extreme Trust
In Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers look to the future once again, predicting that rising levels of transparency will require companies to protect the interests of their customers and employees proactively, even when it sometimes costs money in the short term.

  


Finding the Soul of Big Business
Paula Marshall is the CEO of the Bama Companies and a Malcolm Baldrige Award winner.

  


Firms of Endearment
Rajendra S. Sisodia writes through a series of real-life vignettes from well-known companies, the 11 brief, well-written chapters compellingly argue that many of today's successful businesses foster intrinsic cultures that embrace values for the stakeholders as well as the shareholders; for them, it is more than just politically correct, it is the only way.

  


Good to Great
Jim Collins explores the question of how a "good company can become a great company.

  


Higher Ambition
How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

  


How
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business (and in Life)was written by Dov Seidman, the C.E.O. of LRN, which helps companies build ethical corporate cultures.

  


Leading with Trust is Like Sailing Downwind
Robert Whipple "The TRUST Ambassador" is a nationally recognized consultant, author and teacher, and an expert at helping organizations build higher levels of TRUST

  


Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route t
Despite this widespread belief that Corporate Responsibility (CR) can simultaneously improve societal welfare and corporate performance, most companies are largely in the dark when it comes to understanding how their stakeholders think and feel about these programs. This book argues that all companies must understand how and why stakeholders react to such information about companies and their actions. It examines the two most important stakeholder groups to companies - consumers and employees - to comprehend why, when and how they react to CR.

  


Little Bets
Peter Sims, co-author of True North, writes about how breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries.

  


Managing Corporate Social Responsibility
Managing Corporate Social Responsibility offers a strategic, communication-centred approach to integrating CSR into organizations. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and written in a highly accessible style, the book guides readers in a focused progression providing the key points they need to successfully navigate the benefits and implications of managing CSR.

  


Managing for Stakeholders
R. Edward Freeman is Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and director Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of ten books on business ethics, environmental management, and strategic management.

  

Managing with a Conscience (2nd edition)
Frank Sonnenberg writes about improving performance through integrity, trust and commitment. Industry Week named the 1st edition one of the top ten business books of the year.

  


Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
This Third Edition identifies the unique ethical demands of leadership and then equips readers to meet these challenges.

  


Mission Intangible
Dr. Nir Kossovsky MD, MBA- writes about managing risk to create value. It is an essential companion for executives responsible for ethical compliance, innovation, quality, safety, sustainability and security; for the C-suite leadership, and for corporate board members.

  


Navigating Integrity
Al Watts has 25 years of experience as an independent consultant helping leaders and organizations succeed by aligning people, systems and strategy.

  


One Report:: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy
"One Report" refers to an emerging trend in business taking place throughout the world where companies are going beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and integrating both into a single integrated report.

  


Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach
Scarcely a day goes by without revelations of an organizational scandal in business, government, or other institutions. We are all constantly faced with ethical decisions, and the choices we make determine success or failure in our careers. Craig Johnson shows how we can develop our ethical expertise, just as we develop our abilities to manage or oversee operations.

  


Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace
Dennis Reina and Michelle Reina are award winning authors who have written a new book about rebuilding broken trust in the workplace.

   


Reputation Rules
Professor Daniel Diermeier draws on extensive research and uses numerous case studies that show how to integrate reputation management deeply into the culture and structure of companies.

  


Saving Capital from Short-Termism
Few business thinkers in recent decades have contributed more to the subject of short-termism than Alfred Rappaport. As an author and educator, Rappaport is a pioneer in developing the principles of values-based management and is an acknowledged authority on how to make long-term shareholder value the essential driver of corporate strategy. His latest work, Saving Capitalism from Short-Termism, is a clarion call for conquering the addiction to short-term profit—and getting on the path to building long-term value.

  


Seven (7) Lessons in Leading in a Crisis
Bill George,one of the country's most trusted leaders offers time-tested and real world advice for leading in economic hard times 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, True North, Finding Your True North, and Authentic Leadership .

  


Slice of Trust: The Leadership Secret with the Hot Fruity...
A Slice of Trust by David Hutchens and Barry Rellaford teaches managers and leaders of all levels how companies that develop trust within the workplace can increase their value, efficiency, and innovation.

  


Smart Trust
Stephen M. R. Covey again illuminates the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in Smart Trust. In a compelling and readable style, he and long-time business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles and anecdotes of people and organizations that are not only achieving unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and cultures but—even more inspiring—also attaining elevated levels of energy and joy.

  


Spend Shift
Michael D’Antonio and John Gerzema are coauthors of SPEND SHIFT: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live. D'Antoniois a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of more than a dozen books including Forever Blue, Hershey, and The State Boys Rebellion.

  


SuperCorp
Harvard Business School professor Kanter (Confidence) offers cutting-edge insights on corporate competitiveness in this timely and captivating assessment of what it takes to succeed in the face of rapid technological, cultural and economic change.

  


The Advantage
Patrick Lencioni tells us why organizational healthy trumps everything else in business.

  


The Decision to Trust
Globally, there has been a decline in trust over the past few decades, and only a third of Americans believe they can trust the government, big business, and large institutions. In The Decision to Trust, Robert Hurley explains how this new culture of cynicism and distrust creates many problems, and why it is almost impossible to manage an organization well if its people do not trust one another. High-performing, world-class companies are almost always high-trust environments. Without this elusive, important ingredient, companies cannot attract or retain top talent.

  


The Divine Right of Capital
Marjorie Kelly, the founder and editor of Business Ethics and a frequent contributor to NPR, considers how corporations strive to make money for their shareholders regardless of the costs to society.

  


The Economics of Integrity
Anna Bernasek writes about finance and the economy. She has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, and TIME and has commented on economics as a guest on broadcast media including CNN, CNBC, public television and National Public Radio.

  

The Future of Value
The Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to thrive and outperform the competition in today's growth-constrained, sustainability-conscious world. Written by Eric Lowitt (a renowned business strategy and sustainability expert) this groundbreaking book shows how sustainability can be used as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance.

  


The Great Workplace: Building Trust and Inspiring Performanc
Trust is the key to developing a positive workplace culture in which employees have pride in what they do and enjoy their colleagues. This training package and assessment shows how to implement this concept in the workplace by providing strategies and development activities. Created by the authors of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For List, it is designed to increase employee productivity and boost performance.

  


The Great Workplace: Facilitators Guide
Michael Burchell, Ed.D., is a corporate vice president with the Great Place to Work® Institute and a partner in the Institute's UAE affiliate. Jennifer Robin, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Great Place to Work® Institute.

  


The High Purpose Company
Christine Arena is an award-winning author, syndicated blogger and corporate strategist. Christine’s work is published on websites including CSMonitor, Global Post, Fast Company, 3BL Media and APEsphere.

  


The Integrity Dividend
Tony Simons is the President of Integrity Dividend LLC and a Professor of Leadership and Management at Cornell University.

  


The Language of Trust
Michael Maslansky is one of corporate America’s leading communications and research strategists, and the President and CEO of Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research.

  


The Leadership Challenge
This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and 20 years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader.

  


The Market for Virtue
In the highly praised The Market for Virtue, David Vogel presents a clear, balanced analysis of the contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the United States and Europe.

  


The MBA Oath
Max Anderson and several of his classmates at Harvard created an “MBA Oath” and the book is about doing the right thing in business.

  


The Orange Revolution
From New York Times bestselling authors and renowned leadership consultants Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton comes a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams.

  


The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics is a comprehensive treatment of the field of business ethics as seen from a philosophical approach. The volume consists of 24 essays that survey the field of business ethics in a broad and accessible manner, covering all major topics about the relationship between ethical theory and business ethics.

  


The Power of Critical Thinking
The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Third Edition, presents the broadest range of tools for today's critical thinking students to apply in any arena, from everyday life to academia, and from science to the media.

  


The Responsbility Revolution
Jeffrey Hollender is the co-founder of Seventh Generation Inc.

  


The Responsible Business
Author Carol Sanford states that "When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses."

  


The Story of American Business
Nancy F. Koehn is a Harvard historian who inspires solutions to today’s issues by examining lessons from the past. She currently holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration, and her research focuses on entrepreneurial leadership and how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact.

  


The Thin Book of Trust
Charles Feltman coaches executives and managers who want to develop or strengthen the critical leadership skills that produce exceptional business results. Charles also coaches teams and groups that want to develop greater trust, alignment, collaboration, innovation, and accountability in order to consistently produce exceptional results.

  

The Trust Edge
In The Trust Edge, David Horsager reveals the single uniqueness of the greatest leaders and organizations of all time—Trust. Based in research but made practical for today’s leader, Horsager shows that trust is a quantifiable competency that brings dramatic results. When leaders learn how to implement the 8 Pillars of Trust, they enjoy better relationships, reputations, retention, revenue, and results.

  


The Trusted Advisor
Charles H. Green is a speaker and executive educator on trust-based relationships and Trust-based Selling in complex businesses, and the founder and CEO of Trusted Advisor Associates.

   


The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook
Charles H. Green and Andrea P. Howe have written this hands-on addition to the popular book The Trusted Advisor. You will find answers to pervasive questions about trust and leadership—such as how to develop business with trust, nurture trust-based relationships, build and run a trustworthy organization, and develop your trust skill set.

  


Trust is Everything
Aneil K. Mishra and Karen Mishra, Michigan professors, write about how ordinary people can become extraordinary leaders.

  


Turnaround Leadership
Shaun O'Callaghan founded Quartet Research, which provides leadership development programs at board and senior management levels. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School.

  


We First
A social media expert with global experience with many of the world’s biggest brands —including Nike, Toyota and Motorola—Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases.

  


We: How to Increase Performance and Profits...
Kevin Kruse is a successful entrepreneur and co-author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling book, We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement. Based on real-world experience and surveys of over 10 million workers it reveals how leaders who foster an environment for Growth, Recognition and Trust will generate massive emotional commitment and buy-in from team members.

  


Working for Good
Jeff Klein serves as CEO + Activator for Working for Good, LLC, where he is the lead producer and process facilitator of the company’s Cause Alliance Marketing campaigns. Jeff is a founding director of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. an organization co-founded by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.