Resources

Resources Overview

Topics:  Values, leadership, education, values-based leadership, cultural transformation

Various types of resources are available on this website and from the Institute for Values-Based Leadership and our partners and experts in the field. 
 
Together we hope to help leaders to further develop competencies in building values-driven, high performance organizations and communities, to continue to build knowledge in the core areas above, and to assist students and others in their work. These resources list books, articles, video clips, case studies, websites, and other useful documents that are found on this website.
 
Recommended Reading:

Summary Report on the Canadian National Values Assessment (NVA) 2009
 
Barrett, R. (1998) Liberating the corporate soul: Building a visionary organization. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann
 
Barrett, R. (2006) Building a values-driven organization: A whole system approach to cultural transformation. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann
 
Books and articles by Barrett, R., adjunct professor with the Institute for Values-Based Leadership.
 
Bennis, W. (2000) Managing the dream: Reflections on leadership and change. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing
 
Dean, K. (2008) Values-based leadership: How our personal values impact the workplace, The Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 1(1), pp. 60-67
 
MacGregor Burns, J. (1978) Leadership. New York: Harper and Row
 
Ghosh, D. (2008). Corporate values, workplace decisions and ethical standards of employees. Journal of Managerial Issues, 20(1), 68-90
 
O’Toole, J. (1996) Leading change: The argument for values-based leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.   
 
Dr. Marilyn Taylor's books, articles and presentations:

Books:
 
Emergent Learning for Wisdom (2011), Palgrave Macmillan 
 
Learning toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices, co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan
 
Articles and Presentations:
 
Taylor, M., Jonsson, B., Munday, A. (2010) Leadership Action for National Cultural Resilience and Sustainability:  National Values Assessments Supporting Civic and Workplace Initiatives for Culture Change.  A panel presentation to the International Leadership Association Annual Conference, Boston, US, October 28 (invited)
 
Taylor, M., Jamieson, D. (2007) A Nation of Hope:  Organization Development and Shifting Canadian Leadership Values.  A presentation to the International Organization Development Association Annual Conference, Organization Development in a Global Ecology, Kamloops, BC, August. (peer reviewed)
 
Taylor, M. (2007) Canadian Values and 21st Century Leadership.  A presentation to Leadership Conference 2007, Leaders Moving Forward, Saskatoon, SK, May 1.
 
Taylor, M. (2006) "21st Century Leadership", A Plenary Presentation at Leading in a Connected World, Canadian Community Leadership Conference, Saskatoon, SK, May 10-13. (invited)
 
Taylor, M. (2006) Coaching for connection in complexity: Leaping the cultural chasm. International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, 1, 30-33.
 
DeGuerre, D. and Taylor, M. (2005) Sustainable learning organization development: Participative Design and Executive Coaching, The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management.
 
Taylor, M. and Westeinde, J. (2004) The evolution of leadership coaching in the context of organizational change, International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, 2(1), 4-13.
 
Taylor, M. (2004) Critical challenges of the learning red zone: Senior managers in empowering organizational change. The Innovation Journal, 9(1), 1-17.
 
Dr. Taylor has also designed and researched graduate leadership education that fosters values-perspective evolution. The design principles of this kind of degree program, similar in orientation to the MA in Leadership and the newly developed Graduate Certificate in Values-Based Leadership at Royal Roads University, were published in the following:
 
Taylor, M., de Guerre, D., Gavin, J. and Kass, R. (2002) Graduate education for dynamic human systems, Management Learning, 33(3), 349-369.
 
De Guerre, D. and Taylor, M. (2004) Graduate leadership education in a socio-ecological perspective: Working at the paradigmatic interface. In E. O’Sullivan and M.M. Taylor (Eds.) Learning toward an ecological consciousness: Selected transformative practices. Palgrave Macmillan, 65-83.
 
References from Emergent Learning for Wisdom, Marilyn M. Taylor, PhD, Director, Institute for Values-Based Leadership:
 
Ackoff, R. (1979). The future of operational research in the past. Journal of Operational Research Society, 30(2), 93–104
 
Adams, M. (2003). Fire and ice: The United States, Canada, and the myth of converging values. Toronto: Penguin Canada
 
Adams, M. (2006). Fire and ice: The United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values: Focus on Work and Leadership. Presentation to the 11th Annual Values and Leadership Conference, 5 October, Victoria, BC
 
Adams, M. (2007a). Unlikely utopia: The surprising triumph of Canadian pluralism. Toronto: Penguin Canada
 
Adams, M. (2007b). The Future of Leadership. Presentation to the Human Resource Professional Association of Ontario, 10 January, Toronto
 
Albert Einstein Online (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2010 from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html
 
Allport, G. (1962). Psychological models for guidance. Harvard Educational Review, 32, 373–381
 
Appadurai, A. (2006). Fear of small numbers: An essay on the geography of anger. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
 
Argyris, C. and D. Schön. (1974). Theory in practice: Increasing professional effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
 
Baltes, P. and J. Smith. (2008). Fascination with wisdom: Its nature, ontogeny, and function. Perspectives on psychological science, 3, 56–64. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00062.x
 
Bar-On, R. (1997). Bar-On emotional quotient inventory: Technical manual. Toronto: Multi-Health Systems
 
Barrett, M. (1994). Communication, excerpt from convocation address on the occasion of having been conferred LL.D., honoris causa. November, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
 
Barrett, R. (1998). Liberating the corporate soul: Building a visionary organization. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann
 
Barrett, R. (2006). Building a values-driven organization: A whole system approach to cultural transformation. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann
 
Barrett, R. (2010). The New Leadership Paradigm
 
Links to websites with resources on values-based leadership and cultural transformation:

Our Partners
 
Barrett Values Centre
 
 
Video links:

Peter H. Thomas

Forum with Richard Barrett
 
Presentation by Richard Barrett at Royal Roads University, January 12, 2012, The New Leadership Paradigm: Building a Sustainable Future for Everyone.