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Leadership Books List

Here are the best leadership books by category to help you master your leadership skills:

Getting Started with Leadership

  • Leadership 101, by John C. Maxwell
  • Leadership on the Line, by Ronald A. Heifetz
  • Principle-Centered Leadership , by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 5 Levels of Leadership, by John Maxwell
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell
  • The Leadership Challenge, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • The Truth About Managing People…And Nothing But the Truth, by Stephen P. Robbins

Attitude

  • 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class, by Steve Siebold
  • Attitude 101, by John C. Maxwell
  • Be the Hero, by Noah Blumenthal

Authenticity, Authentic Leadership

  • True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership , by Bill George

Change

  • John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do, by John P. Kotter
  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip Heath
  • The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, by Michael Watkins

Character

  • The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, by John C. Maxwell
  • The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage, by John C. Maxwell

Communication

  • 20 Minutes to a Top Performer, by Alan Vengel
  • Crucial Confrontations, by Kerry Patterson
  • Crucial Conversations, by Kerry Patterson
  • Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO, by Harrison Monarth
  • The New Articulate Executive: Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader,  by Granville Toogood

Daily

  • Leadership Promises for Every Day, by John C. Maxwell
  • Make Today Count, by John C. Maxwell
  • The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day, by John C. Maxwell

Development, Leadership Development

  • Developing the Leaders Around You, by John C. Maxwell
  • Developing the Leader Within You, by John C. Maxwell
  • Effective Succession Planning, by William J. Rothwell
  • Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders, by Harvard Business School Press
  • On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis
  • The 360 Degree Leader, by John C. Maxwell

Effectiveness

  • 180 Climbing the Two Ladders to Inner Strength & Outer Freedom, by Rob White
  • Getting Results the Agile Way, by J.D. Meier
  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, by Seth Godin
  • Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, by Charlene Li
  • Secrets of Effective Leadership, by Fred A. Manske
  • The Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker
  • What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness

Emotional Intelligence, Compassion, Heart, Empathy

  • A Leader’s Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal, by John C. Maxwell
  • Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders, by Martyn Newman
  • Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
  • Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman

Ethics

  • Ethics 101, by John C. Maxwell

Excellence

  • Good to Great, by Jim Collins
  • Greater Than Yourself, by Steve Farber
  • In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

Execution

  • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy
  • Flawless Execution
  • Know-How, by Ram Charan
  • Rework, by David Heinemeier Hansson
  • The Knowing-Doing Gap, by Robert I. Sutton

Executive Presence

  • Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders, by Martyn Newman
  • Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO, by Harrison Monarth
  • The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, by Michael Watkins

Failure, Setbacks

  • Failing Forward, by John C. Maxwell

Influence, Rapport

  • Becoming a Person of Influence, by John C. Maxwell
  • Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, by Guy Kawasaki
  • Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John C. Maxwell
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , by Robert B. Cialdini
  • Influence Without Authority
  • Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, by Kerry Patterson
  • Insider’s Guide To The Art Of Persuasion, by Dr. Rick Kirschner
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin

Interpersonal Skills

  • Be a People Person, by John C. Maxwell
  • Get Them On Your Side, by Samuel B. Bacharach
  • Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi
  • Winning with People, by John C. Maxwell

Leadership, Lessons in Leadership

  • Leadership (Harper Perennial Political Classics), by James MacGregor Burns
  • Leadership, by Rudolph W. Giuliani
  • Leadership (Tom Peters Essentials), by Tom Peters
  • Leadership 101, by John C. Maxwell
  • Leadership and the One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard
  • Leadership Gold, by John C. Maxwell
  • Leadership Is an Art, by Max De Pree
  • Leadership Lessons From THE BOOK, by Bill Bliss
  • Leadership on the Line, by Ronald A. Heifetz
  • Leading at a Higher Level, by Ken Blanchard
  • Management Rev Ed, by Peter F. Drucker
  • Maxwell Leadership Bible, by John C. Maxwell
  • On Leadership, by John William Gardner
  • The Essential Wooden, by John Wooden
  • The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick Lencioni
  • The Leader in You, by Dale Carnegie
  • The One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard
  • The Truth about Leadership, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • The Truth About Managing People…And Nothing But the Truth, by Stephen P. Robbins

Learning, Growth

  • The Fifth Discipline, by Peter M. Senge
  • What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith

Principles, Practices, Strategies, Tactics

  • It’s Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
  • Lead or Get Off the Pot!, by Pat Croce
  • Principle-Centered Leadership, by Stephen R. Covey

Purpose, Passion, Motivation

  • Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hsieh
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink
  • Start with Why, by Simon Sinek
  • Sun Tzu Was a Sissy
  • The 3 Keys to Empowerment
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell
  • The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
  • The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu
  • The Leadership Challenge, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • The Powell Principles: 24 Lessons from Colin Powell, by Oren Harari

Reflection, Inner-Engineering

  • 180 climbing the two ladders to inner strength & outer freedom, by Rob White
  • Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, by Robert E. Quinn
  • Zengage, by David Zinger

Servant Leadership

  • Built to Serve, by Dan Sanders
  • Servant Leader, by Ken Blanchard
  • Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness, by Robert Greenleaf
  • The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership, by James Hunter

Situational Leadership

  • Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership, by Ken Blanchard
  • Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership, by Ken Blanchard

Strengths

  • Go Put Your Strengths to Work, by Marcus Buckingham
  • StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution, by Marcus Buckingham
  • Strengths-Based Leadership, by Tom Rath
  • Transformational Leadership, by Gary Vurnum

Strategy

  • Strategy, by B.H. Liddell Hart
  • The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership, by Mike Freedman
  • The Lords of Strategy, by Walter Kiechel

Teamwork

  • Teamwork 101, by John Maxwell
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable , by Patrick Lencioni

Trust

  • The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, by Stephen R. Covey

Vision, Mission, Values

  • A Simple Statement: A Guide to Nonprofit Arts Management and Leadership
  • Flawless Execution
  • Leadership on the Line, by Ronald A. Heifetz
  • Principle-Centered Leadership, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
  • The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, by Stephen R. Covey
  • True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership , by Bill George
  • Vision: Your Pathway to Victory,  Gordon D’Angelo

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