Executive Coaching and Mentoring

All professional athletes have coaches to help them improve their performance. Similarly, many of the best CEOs and entrepreneurs also have coaches to help them improve and grow. Few people are so arrogant as to imagine that nobody else is capable of helping or offering advice.

In collaboration with CEO Fusion and the Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization, we are actively seeking high quality executive coaches and mentors who are interested in working with us to help entrepreneurs and early-stage CEOs grow and develop personally and professionally.

Perhaps the simplest thing an entrepreneur, CEO or any business executive can do to grow personally and professionally, is to read - often! Reading exposes you some of the greatest minds in the world. A partial list of good foundational business books includes:

Leadership and Personal Leadership

• "The Prime Movers (Traits of the Great Wealth Creators)" by Edwin A. Locke
• "The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick M. Lencioni
• "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick M. Lencioni
• "The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker
• "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
• "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins
• "Seeds of Greatness" by Dennis Waitley

Business in General

• "In Search of Excellence (Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies)" by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H Waterman Jr.
• "Reengineering the Corporation (A Manifesto for Business Revolution) by Michael Hammer and James Champy
• "Competing for the Future" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
• "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
• "Positioning: the Battle for Your Mind" by Al Ries and Jack Trout
• "Crossing the Chasm (Marketing and Selling Disruptive Technologies to Mainstream Customers) by Geoffrey A. Moore
• "Inside the Tornado (Strategies for Developing, Leveraging and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets) by Geoffrey A. Moore
• "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen
• "Direct from Dell (Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry)" by Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman
• "The HP Way (How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company)" by David Packard
• "Getting to YES (Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In)" by Roger Fisher and William Ury
• "Wise Words (Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital)" by Sean Evan Wise

Economics

• "Free to Choose" by Milton and Rose Friedman
• "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton and Rose Friedman
• "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich A. Hayek
• "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt

 

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