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Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

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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

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Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · 332 pages

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Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages

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Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek · 368 pages

Why do only a few people get to say “I love my job?” It seems unfair that finding fulfillment at work is like winning a lottery; that only a few lucky ones get to feel valued by their organizations, to feel like they belong. Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a cra

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Jack: Straight from the Gut

Jack Welch, John A. Byrne, Mike Barnicle · 487 pages

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The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership

Gail T. Fairhurst · 266 pages

"This updated edition explores the basic components of the framing process including communication goals, mental models, context, priming for spontaneity, language use, and believability frames (for ethical communication). This new edition is organized to emphasize the skills, science, art ethics and the history of research on framing. The author offers a better understanding of the subject, a dia

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What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith · 256 pages

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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell, Tantum Collins, David Silverman · 297 pages

As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the

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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

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Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Don Carew, Marjorie Blanchard, Scott Blanchard · 371 pages

The definitive "Blanchard on Leadership"25 years of breakthrough leadership insights in one extraordinary book!From The One Minute Manager® to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard's books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people-oriented, customer-centered, and performanc

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Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

Linda A. Hill, Kent L. Lineback · 300 pages

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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

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know - And Do

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Mark Miller · 137 pages

Explains the five essential practices exhibited by the best leaders and provides practical ideas on how to make these a reality.

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Leading in a Culture of Change

Michael Fullan · 176 pages

"Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges - rapid-paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena - if they are to survive in this chaotic environment, leaders must develop the skills they need to lead effectively no matter how fast the world around them is changing." "Leading in a Cultur

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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.

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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent

Sydney Finkelstein · 272 pages

"A GOOD BOSS HITS HIS GOALS AND LEADS HIS TEAM. A SUPERBOSS BLOWS AWAY HER GOALS BY BUILDING AN ARMY OF NEW LEADERS. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE? What do football coach Bill Walsh, restaurateur Alice Waters, television executive Lorne Michaels, technology CEO Larry Ellison, and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren have in common? On the surface, not much, other than consistent success in their fields. But b

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Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lawrence Hawkins, Susan Fowler · 142 pages

Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader. Now, Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager clearly and thoroughly reveals how power, freedom, and autonomy come from having the right mind-set and the skills needed to take personal responsibility for success.In this captivating business parable, number one New

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