Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion

Richard E. Boyatzis · 304 pages

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · 332 pages

The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders

Elena L. Botelho · 310 pages

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith · 256 pages

Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness

Annie McKee · 256 pages

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

Frances Frei · 240 pages

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni · 134 pages

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.

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

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

Dave Logan · 320 pages

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier · 227 pages

Want to say less, work less, and have more impact? Stanier gives you the seven core questions that will help you provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. By unlocking their potential, you'll be able to unlock your own.

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages

Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who

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

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

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

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.

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

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Drea Zigarmi, Patricia Zigarmi · 112 pages

Providing a guide to effective business leadership, three management consultants' important concepts and techniques of leadership, including flexibility, diagnosis, contracts, building skill, confidence, and autonomy in others. In clear, simple terms Leadership and the One Minute Manager® teaches managers the art of Situational Leadership®--a simple system that refutes the conventional management

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy

D. Michael Abrashoff · 218 pages

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like a business that had all

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

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.

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results

Roger Connors, Tom Smith

A fully revised and updated installment from the bestselling author of The Oz Principle Series. Two-time New York Times bestselling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith show how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset-their people. Change the Culture, Change the Game joins their classic

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

Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins · 128 pages

In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful persona