The eBooks are available by clicking the linked titles below and by searching the library catalog. Please note that the eBooks are limited to one simultaneous user. Please try again at a later time if turned away.
The print collection titles available and the number of copies of each title in the collection varies by campus location. Please see the Print books by campus location column below for more information.
12: The Elements of Great Managing
James Harter
Based on the largest study of worker attitudes in the world and more than a decade of Gallup research, the authors explain the 12 Elements essential to motivating employees.
Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture That Outperforms the Competition
Ann Rhoades
Build on values to create a high-performing corporate culture Based on Ann Rhoades' years of experience with JetBlue, Southwest, and other companies known for their trailblazing corporate cultures, Built on Values reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow them to thrive. Companies that create or improve values-based cultures can become higher performers, both in customer and employee satisfaction and financial return.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni
The author's story serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, he reveals the five dysfunctions that go to the very heart of why teams, even the best ones, often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues
Patrick Lencioni
Organized around the fictional story of a leader desperate to save his company by cracking the code on the virtues that define a true team player, this book presents a powerful framework and easy-to-use tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players in any kind of organization.
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
Marcus Buckingham
With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matters most; that we need less focus on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real world of work.
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.
Remarkable!: Maximizing Results Through Value Creation
Randy Ross and David Salyers
Addressing the three dimensions of culture--values, beliefs, and behaviors--Remarkable! introduces readers to the Four Maxims of Value Creation: creativity, positivity, sustainability, and responsibility.
Patrick Lencioni
In this book, the author addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals.
The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
Stephen Covey
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing.
The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery
Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni reveals the three elements that make work miserable -- irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity -- and gives managers and their employees the keys to make any job more engaging.
Amarillo
Located in the Harrington Library Circulation Office. Please ask staff for assistance with the following titles:
Please search the library catalog for availability.
Dallas
Located on the Dallas South campus. Please contact Jacquelyn Jackson at the information below for assistance with the following titles:
Jacquelyn Jackson
Coordinator & Staff Senator
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy
(214) 358-9080
Jacquelyn.Jackson@ttuhsc.edu
(Availability information not included in the library catalog.)
Lubbock
Located at the Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences Patron Services Desk. Please ask staff for assistance with the following titles:
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Odessa
Located at the Library of the Health Sciences Odessa and readily available near the front entrance, near the Reference Desk. Please ask staff for more information about this collection.
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The Values-Based Professional Development Collection is the initiative and the work of the TTUHSC Recognition & Awards Values Integration Team.
The print books at each campus location were donated by the TTUHSC Office of People Development/People & Culture teams.
