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The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
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Include books by the same authorOn Becoming a Leader
Warren G. Bennis · 226 pages
My first report on the subject was published as Leaders (Harper and Row, 1985, co-authored with Bert Nanus). Leaders covered the whats. On Becoming a Leader is the hows: how people become leaders, how they lead, and how organizations encourage or stifle potential leaders. - Introduction. Deemed “the dean of leadership gurus” by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued th
Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey · 334 pages
How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others in the midst of pressure? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, fam
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Robin S. Sharma · 224 pages
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 308 pages
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems--the rational mind and the emotional mind--that compete for control
Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness
Annie McKee · 256 pages
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
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
Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion
Richard E. Boyatzis · 304 pages
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 111 pages
Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.
Principles
Ray Dalio · 592 pages
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute · 199 pages
This phenomenal bestseller * over 700,000 copies sold * changes readers? lives and helps them transform their organizations. In this new edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout to make it even more readable and powerful and a new section has been added that details the many different ways that people are using the book.
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni · 134 pages
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David · 275 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith · 256 pages
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie · 288 pages
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
John Wooden · 256 pages
"Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination...Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow." --Coach John WoodenJohn Wooden is without question one of the most respected and honored sports coaches in our nations history. But it wasn't winning games that drove him; it was ensuring that, regardless of the final score, his players always put forth their utmost effort and performed to
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler · 299 pages
"Everyone wants to be an influencer. We all want to learn how to help ourselves and others change behavior. And yet, in spite of the fact that we routinely attempt to do everything from lose weight to improve quality at work, few of us have more than one or two ideas about how to exert influence. For the first time, Influencer brings together the breakthrough strategies of contemporary influence m
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam M. Grant · 313 pages
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today's dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. This book illuminates what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. The author examines the surprising forces that shap
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 256 pages
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-th