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ARTICLES, BOOKS AND WEBSITES

Here are some books and websites on Management Practices and Talent Management suggested by our network. Recommend your favorites to info@jcaseyassociates.com.

Career Development

Five Steps to Building Your Career — A step-by-step guide covering personal branding, LinkedIn marketing, networking, and interviewing to land roles where you love the work and the people you work with.

Career Building and Personal Branding — A framework for marketing yourself effectively through a Market Profile, a “Why Biography,” and a targeted networking strategy to find the right job.

Fit for High Performance — Explores how aligning people to the right roles and culture dramatically improves productivity, performance, and organizational profit.

The CORE MAP Assessment by Sherry Buffington — An overview of Sherry Buffington’s behavioral assessment tool that analyzes natural traits, emotional intelligence, coping patterns, and performance levels to support coaching and leadership development.

Influencing Through Platonic Inquiry — Introduces the Platonic Inquiry method — a structured questioning technique rooted in Socratic dialogue — as a tool for discovering truth, building clarity, and influencing others to help you in interviews and in leadership roles.

The Talent Fit – A Key Communicator Between Candidates and Hiring Authorities — A structured template that maps a candidate’s skills and experiences directly to a client’s job requirements, facilitating culture-fit conversations and better interview preparation.

Market Profiles Sample Format — A worksheet that helps job seekers define and organize their target companies by title, industry, size, location, culture, and ownership to focus their job search.

Finding Purple Squirrels — Helps candidates identify, articulate, and market the rare combination of skills and personality traits that makes them uniquely sought-after in their field.

AA Simon Sinek’s Golden Circles and Your Career Development Final — Applies Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why” framework to career development, showing professionals how to articulate their purpose and build a compelling personal brand.

Shared Reality – The Click Factor by Rossignac-Milon — Explores how the subconscious key to instant human connection is “shared reality” — navigating and making sense of the world together with another person.

Four Company Cultures by Sherry Buffington — Identifies four types of corporate culture (No Consequences, No Mistakes, Firefighter, and Structured Freedom), explaining why three are toxic and how to recognize the one healthy culture that drives top performance.

Three Types of People to Fire Immediately by G. Michael Maddox and Raphael Louis Viton — Identifies three specific personality types whose behaviors undermine team morale and performance, arguing they should be removed swiftly.

How Leaders Impact Employee Engagement by Steve Sonnenberg — Demonstrates how leaders directly drive engagement through empathy, recognition, and genuine care, with three actionable strategies to significantly increase workforce engagement.

Age Discrimination Today — Offers practical strategies for experienced professionals to navigate age bias in the job market and manage expectations during their search.

John Casey Biography — A professional “Why Biography” and background overview of the firm’s founder.

Leadership

Gallup on The Benefits of Employee Engagement — Summarizes Gallup’s research demonstrating the measurable business benefits — including higher productivity, lower turnover, and improved profitability — of having an engaged workforce.

How Leaders Impact Employee Engagement — Demonstrates how leaders directly drive engagement through empathy, recognition, and genuine care, with three actionable strategies to significantly increase workforce engagement.

Best Ways to Develop Leadership Skills — Outlines the most effective practices and mindsets for professionals looking to advance their leadership capabilities and take on greater responsibility.

Fit for High Performance — Explores how aligning people to the right roles and culture dramatically improves productivity, performance, and organizational profit.

Aligning Management Styles — Examines why management and cultural alignment is the critical factor in employee satisfaction and retention, backed by 25 years of Gallup polling data.

Good and Bad Management Traits — Contrasts the behaviors and skills of effective, people-centered managers against those of poor managers, offering a practical framework for leadership improvement.

Finding Purple Squirrels — Helps candidates identify, articulate, and market the rare combination of skills and personality traits that makes them uniquely sought-after in their field.

Board of Advisors Article — Provides a framework for organizations to evaluate, form, and manage advisory boards to gain expert guidance and strategic support.

Servant Leadership – Eleven Characteristics by University of Nebraska by U. of Nebraska John Barbuto and Daniel Wheeler — Examines the eleven defining characteristics of servant leadership and what it takes to become a leader who puts others first.

Servant Leadership Overview — Covers the history, core concepts, models, and characteristics of servant leadership, including why servant leaders outperform traditional hierarchical leaders.

Women as Servant leaders in Business v3 by Charles Parker and John Casey — Examines how women’s leadership styles naturally align with servant leadership principles and the positive organizational outcomes this produces.

Presentation on Servant Leadership and Shareholder Value — Makes the business case that servant leadership directly drives employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and ultimately shareholder value.

The Inverted Pyramid — Explains how flipping the traditional organizational hierarchy — placing frontline employees at the top — is a proven key to greater productivity and employee engagement.

Fou r Company Cultures by Sherry Buffington

The Five H Culture Defined — Defines the “Five H Culture” framework developed by John Casey & Associates, describing the personality traits it seeks in candidates for its clients that make a company a truly healthy and high-performing place to work.

The Power of Kindness by Leslie Baker — Explores how deliberate acts of kindness in the workplace foster trust, strengthen teams, and improve overall organizational culture and well-being.

The Power Trip WSJ by Jonah Lehrer — Examines the psychological effects of power on leaders and how gaining authority can alter behavior in ways that undermine effective leadership.

Best Books For New Managers To Read — A curated reading list recommending essential books for new managers covering leadership, culture, motivation, and business strategy.

Three Types of People to Fire Immediately — Identifies three specific personality types whose behaviors undermine team morale and performance, arguing they should be removed swiftly.

Filling your talent Pipeline by Lee Colan, PhD — Provides managers with a practical framework for continuously identifying, developing, and retaining top talent to keep their organizations competitive.

Leading In the AI Revolution by David Henkin
— Makes the case that every organization needs a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) to strategically and ethically navigate AI’s rapid transformation of business.

Interviewing

Candidate Interview Preparation Outline — Teaches candidates to conduct deep company research, approach interviews with a consultative sales mindset, and develop strategic questions that engage interviewers and differentiate them from other candidates.

Career Building and Personal Branding — A framework for marketing yourself effectively through a Market Profile, a “Why Biography,” and a targeted networking strategy to find the right job.

Recommendations for Telephonic or Video Interviews — A practical checklist of best practices for phone and video interviews, covering environment, technology, tone, and professionalism.

Preparing for a Panel Interview — Provides specific strategies for navigating multi-interviewer panel interviews, including how to engage all panelists and manage the unique dynamics of the format.

Aligning Management Styles — Examines why management and cultural alignment is the critical factor in employee satisfaction and retention, backed by 25 years of Gallup polling data.

Fit for High Performance — Explores how aligning people to the right roles and culture dramatically improves productivity, performance, and organizational profit.

Good and Bad Management Traits — Contrasts the behaviors and skills of effective, people-centered managers against those of poor managers, offering a practical framework for leadership improvement.

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circles and Your Career Development Final — Applies Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why” framework to career development, showing professionals how to articulate their purpose and build a compelling personal brand.

Finding Purple Squirrels — Helps candidates identify, articulate, and market the rare combination of skills and personality traits that makes them uniquely sought-after in their field.

Thank You Notes — Explains the strategic importance of post-interview thank you notes and how to write them in a way that reinforces your candidacy and keeps you top of mind.

Craft Winning Thank You Notes — Offers specific tips and examples for writing compelling, memorable thank you notes after an interview.

Shared Reality – The Click Factor — Explores how the subconscious key to instant human connection is “shared reality” — navigating and making sense of the world together with another person.

Four Articles on Counteroffers by Heather Huhman, James Phillip, Tony Beshara and Scott Love — A collection of four perspectives examining the risks of accepting counteroffers and why most professionals who do ultimately regret it.

Age Discrimination Today by Bob Walker and John Casey — Offers practical strategies for experienced professionals to navigate age bias in the job market and manage expectations during their search.

Body Language Kendall Helfenbein by Kendall Helfenbein
— Covers how to use and read body language effectively during interviews to project confidence and build rapport.

Networking

Career Building and Personal Branding — A framework for marketing yourself effectively through a Market Profile, a “Why Biography,” and a targeted networking strategy to find the right job.

Netweaving Building a Servant Leader’s Network

Networking Pro Learns New Tricks — Explores how even seasoned networkers can refresh their approach by adopting new strategies and mindsets in today’s relationship-driven professional environment.

Board of Advisors Article — Provides a framework for organizations to evaluate, form, and manage advisory boards to gain expert guidance and strategic support.

John Casey Biography — A professional “Why Biography” and background overview of the firm’s founder.

John Casey & Associates Information

Why We Are and What We Do Different — Outlines what makes the firm unique, including its servant leadership values, focus on cultural fit, and differentiated recruiting process.

Five Reasons to Consider John Casey & Associates — Highlights the five key reasons why candidates and employers should choose the firm as their recruiting partner.

John Casey Biography — A professional “Why Biography” and background overview of the firm’s founder.

Guide to John Casey & Associates Resources — An overview and navigation guide to all the materials, tools, and articles available through the firm to support candidates and employers throughout the hiring process.

Sales & Marketing Assignments — A snapshot of the sales and marketing roles the firm actively recruited for, giving candidates and clients a sense of its specialty areas.

Authors and Resources

- Leadership: The Speed of Trust by Steven M.R. Covey
- Career Development: Build the Life You Want by Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
- Networking: The GO-GIVER by Bob Burg and John David Mann
- Leadership: Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Leadership: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- Career Development: Getting to Why by Simon Sinek
- Interviewing: Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job by Nick Corcodilos
- Leadership: Creating Shareholder Value by Al Rappaport