Book Club is part of the CAS activities for the Master in Management students. However, it is open to any University of Dubuque student or employee. They generally run 1 hour per week for 6 weeks. Please contact the Graduate Studies Office (gradstudies@dbq.edu or call x3246) if you are interested in joining in one or more of these engaging sessions. Please see the CAS Field Experience Moodle page for other activities/workshops to earn CAS points.
2021 - 2022
Fall Session I
:
- Innovative Secrets of Steve Jobs:
lead by Dr. Cunningham
By: Carmine Gallo
ISBN: 978-0-07-174875-9
Around $5 used and $10 new
Description:
Carmine
Gallo shares the Apple CEO's most famous, most original, and most effective
strategies for sparking true creativity--and real innovation--in any workplace.
"This book takes the pain out
of innovation. It is not intended to create a rigid, step-by-step method for
innovation since that's the last thing Jobs would recommend. It is intended
to reveal the general principles that guided Steve Jobs in achieving his
breakthrough success, principles that can spark your imagination, enhance your
creativity, help you develop fresh ideas to grow business and career, and
inspire you to change the world." Meeting time and place: Wednesday's August 26th -October 14th 4-5 via
Zoom
Fall Session II:
- Always Eat Left Handed: lead by Dr. Grace
- By Rohit Bhargava
Cost: around $5 used and $13
new
This book club applies to CAS
domain #5 – Humanitarianism and Civic Engagement
Book description
For anyone sick of hearing you
should do what you love, take more risks and make mistakes, this empowering
book is like a desperately needed pair of noise-canceling headphones for
uselessly obvious advice. Instead, Always Eat Left Handed offers a real world,
no-nonsense playbook for getting ahead in school, work and life by doing
exactly the opposite of what most people tell you. Starting, of course, with
eating left handed.
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0: Lead by Dr. Cattani
- By: Travis Bradberry, et al.
Cost: around $5 used and $15
new
This book club applies to CAS
domain #3 – Intrapersonal Development
Book description
In today's
fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions,
each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt,
and strike out ahead of the pack.
By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret
that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to
use it to improve your life are two very different things.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for
increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your
fullest potential.
Spring Session I:
- The 5 Roles of Leadership: lead by Dr. Michelle Grace
MEETING TIME and LOCATION: Asynchronous Online Participation
Read and participate in the Book Club: The 5 Roles of LeadershipAbout the Book. Have you mastered the 5 roles of the ideal leader?
Good leaders know that professional expertise isn’t everything. You have to know how to use that expertise effectively, and you’ll do that by having the most crucial leadership skills. But leadership skills are often neglected during training, in school, and even at work. Instead, the focus is almost entirely on basic professional skills, leaving essential leadership training far behind. Due to this lack of training, many managers fail to deal with their team in an ideal manner; as a result, they experience internal conflicts, a lack of team motivation, and mediocre communication on a daily basis.
So where does a professional go to learn the leadership skills that really help move the needle?
This book compiles the world’s best 21st-century leadership tools to help you gain success and recognition as a leader, allowing you to take your leadership skills, and your career, to the next level.
With his signature concise style, renown leadership trainer Wladislaw Jachtchenko reveals how you can master these 5 roles and become the ideal leader.
Role 1: The charismatic and convincing communicator!
Role 2: The always efficient and effective manager!
Role 3: The motivating team leader who knows how to delegate!
Role 4: The empathetic psychologist interacting consistently with each employee!
Role 5: The skilled problem solver who manages conflict and implements change!
The author makes sure to give you concrete, proven tools and the best practices on every page so that you can take these actionable directives and immediately integrate them into your daily routine.
The result: You will become the kind of leader that people want to follow; the kind of leader who empowers their team and gets things done.
Link to the book on Amazon
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People: lead by Dr. Abdul Sinno
MEETING TIME and LOCATION: Thursdays from 4:00 pm- 5:00 pm via Zoom
Read and participate in the Book Club: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
About the Book.
Stephen Covey’s cherished classic commemorates the timeless wisdom and power of the 7 Habits book and does it in a highly readable and understandable, infographics format.
This listing is on Amazon for $14.00, however, students can buy a used copy for $3.00-$6.00 available all over the place.
Audio book available with the free trial option at https://archive.org/details/PartI_20150910
This 7 Habits book guides you through each habit step-by-step:
• Habit 1: Be Proactive
• Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind
• Habit 3: Put First Things First
• Habit 4: Think Win-Win
• Habit 5: Seek First To Understand Then Be Understood
• Habit 6: Synergize
• Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw
Dr. Covey's 7 Habits book is one of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written. Now you can enjoy and learn critical lessons about the habits of successful people that will enrich your life's experience. And, it's in an infographics
format that makes it easy for you to learn and apply Dr. Covey's habits of successful people.
Spring Session II
:
Thursdays,
March 10 to April 7, from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. – live and remote format, led by
Dr. Tony Foster: Read and engage in the Book Club discussion on The Coddling of the
American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a
Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
ISBN-13: 978-0735224896
See here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad
Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is
a 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. It is an
expansion of a popular essay the two wrote for The Atlantic in
2015. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that overprotection is having a negative effect
on university students and that the use of trigger
warnings and safe spaces does more harm than good.
This selection is under CAS Pillar #2 – Cognitive Complexity
Harvard Business Review Manager's
Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out: Lead by Dr. Kevin Cattani
Tuesdays, March 8 to April 26, from 12:00
to 1:00 p.m. – face to face: ISBN-13: 978-1633691247
See here on Amazon: HBR
Manager's Guide on Amazon
Whether you’re a new manager or looking to have
more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in
all shapes and sizes—a direct report’s anxious questions, your boss’s
last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case
staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you
need to master a new set of business and personal skills.
This selection is under CAS Pillar #6 – Practical Competence
Summer Session:
- Tuesdays,
May 11 to June 8, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. – live remote format, led by Dr.
Summer Zwanziger- Elsinger:
Read
and engage in the Book Club discussion on Crucial
Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (second edition), by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
ISBN-13: 978-0071771320
See here on Amazon: Crucial
Conversations on Amazon
Crucial Conversations gets you past the hard parts of dialogue and helps you
achieve relationships that are real, productive, and that will enrich your life
and career.
This
selection is under CAS Pillar #4 – Interpersonal Competence
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