This is a list of my favorite leadership and management books:

• Flawless Execution: Use the Techniques and Systems of America’s Fighter Pilots to Perform at Your Peak and Win the Battles of the Business World – learn the Flawless Execution model, how to create a Future Picture, how to create a strategy, how to plan, how to brief, how to debrief.
• Influence Without Authority (2nd Edition) – how to lead people who don’t report to you, how to build effective relationships and create allies, how to influence your boss, peers, clients, and other partners.
• It’s Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks – learn who you are, learn your purpose, how to think independently, how to build trust, how to listen for truth, how to be accountable, how to take action.
• Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership- how to become a flexible and successful leader, how to diagnose a situation correctly so you know when to delegate, support, or direct, how to use the right leadership style, how to improve your management and motivation of others. 
• The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition- learn the values that should guide your actions as a leader, how to set an example for others, how to articulate a vision of the future, how to improve your ability to inspire others towards a common purpose, how to create an environment that promotes innovation and risk, how to build a cohesive and spirited team, how to share power and information and still maintain accountability, how to put more joy and celebration into our efforts, how to improve your leadership abilities.
• Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War- how to find your button, how to position yourself, how to defeat enemies, how to build your assets. 
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You- how to become a better leader, how to improve your leadership skills.
• The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results- how to implement empowerment in an organization, how to integrate team member’s needs with the organization’s needs, how to unleash the power and talents of your employees.
• The Truth About Managing People…And Nothing But the Truth- how to achieve higher productivity and morale, how to improve management effectiveness, how to motivate, how to improve leadership skills, how to handle conflict.
• What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness- how to kick arse and take names, how to maximize selfishness and brutality, while minimizing sentiment.