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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Donald T. Phillips · 198 pages
A guide to business leadership based on the strategies of Abraham Lincoln focuses on the President's most difficult decisions during the Civil War, offering lessons based on his experiences for today's businessperson.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 240 pages
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root ca
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler · 333 pages
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne, Mike Barnicle · 487 pages
Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
Donald T. Phillips, Mike Krzyzewski · 320 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
L. David Marquet · 240 pages
Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
Carlo Ancelotti · 256 pages
The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead
Richard Branson · 392 pages
"While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola and lost. Now Branson gives an inside look at his strikingly different swashbuckling style of leadership.
Iacocca: An Autobiography
Lee Iacocca, William Novak · 365 pages
He's an American legend, the tough-talking, straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, a newsmaker, and a man many have urged to run for President. Now Lee Iacocca opens his personal files on an extraordinary life of survival and triumph in Iacocca -- the outspoken, headline-making autobiography of a man who has come to repre
The Leader In You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World
Dale Carnegie, Stuart R. Levine · 250 pages
Redefines the message of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" for the 1990s.
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin · 325 pages
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership -- at every level -- is the most important thing on the battlefield. They started Echelon Front to teach these same leadership principles to companies
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 266 pages
The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. · 384 pages
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 631 pages
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industrie
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon · 350 pages
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its core values and restore not only its financial health, but also its soul. In Onward, he shares the
Strong Woman: Ambition, Grit and a Great Pair of Heels
Karren Brady · 284 pages
"Karren Brady is now one of the most high-profile business women in the UK following on her success with the BBC Junior Apprentice this summer, and the forthcoming series 6 of The Apprentice where she'll be Sir Alan Sugar's right-hand woman judging the contestants. She has been voted Business Woman of the Year twice in the past four years and is a constant feature in many of the high-profile weekl
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Stephen R. Covey · 420 pages
A leading management consultant draws on his seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness to present an eighth principle, voice, that is based on the right balance of talent, need, conscience, and passion.
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner · 332 pages
"The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge As the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner explore in Credibility why leadership is above all a relatio
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages