Leadership and Management Books

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.